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...channel's new projects are not only dramas and comedies but also a Web-based experiment, which Cohen describes as a "weird mixture of YouTube and talent show." Part of the BBC's updated mission is to boost "media literacy" and push its flock to digital technology as analog is phased out. BBC3 intends to set trends and not just follow them...
Sensors--devices that detect environmental changes--have been around forever in analog form. Traditional thermometers, for instance, use mercury that rises and falls as it responds to temperature changes. More recently, in the information-technology age, network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where...
...only TV dramas and comedy programs but also a Web-based experiment, which Cohen describes as a "weird mixture of YouTube and talent show." Part of the BBC's updated remit is to boost the "media literacy" of the British and push the move to digital technology as analog is phased out. BBC3 intends to set trends and not just follow them...
...Thursday in the English seaside town of Whitehaven, a transmitter tower that had broadcast British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programs to analog television sets since the 1950s switched off. The abrupt blackening was the first part of a nationwide program to make British television entirely digital...
...unfashionable aspects of the genre that attract directors to it. "There's something wonderfully analog about the western," says Mangold. "What's happening onscreen is happening. It's not a guy hanging in front of a green screen." Dede Gardner, who produced Jesse James through Pitt's company, Plan B, sees the western as therapeutically anachronistic and human-friendly: "We're besieged by technology, iPhone this and robot that. We're figuring out how to exist without even talking to one another. Well, you can't do that in [westerns]. It's all about person-to-person confrontation...