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The 2023 Best Picture Oscar nominee productions in numbers, plus the cameras and lenses used

Below are the results of research carried out by Lisa McNamara of frame.io into the budgets, crew size and duration of both principal photography and post-production for each of the Best Picture nominees at the 2023 Academy Awards. Below that, we show the cameras and lenses used on the films nominated for Beat Picture and Best […]

BBC’s new intelligent assistant has “warm and friendly” northern male voice

It is estimated that around 20% of the British public own and regularly use a voice assistant such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant. As an antidote to the “sterile feel” and “problematic associations” of their default soothing female (American) voices, the BBC has chosen to give its soon-to-launch equivalent, Beeb, which gets […]