Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Kid’ Gets Vertical Makeover on TattleTV

U.K. microdrama platform TattleTV – billed as the country’s first dedicated app of its kind – has adapted Charlie Chaplin‘s 1921 feature “The Kid” for vertical mobile viewing, making the silent-era film available exclusively to U.S. audiences. The technology works by generating new image data to fill a vertical frame rather than sacrificing the original…

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Orbital datacenter startup admits launch economics don’t fly • The Register

A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs. Speaking with The Register, Orbital CEO Euwyn Poon admitted orbital datacenters aren’t economically feasible today. “The constellation approach to run AI inference makes sense,…

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