2018

IEEE – The Bit Player (2018)

IEEE – The Bit Player (2018)
English | Size: 2.80 GB
Category: Documentary


The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius; Claude Shannon In a blockbuster paper in 1948, Claude Shannon introduced the notion of a “bit” and laid the foundation for the information age. His ideas ripple through nearly every aspect of modern life, influencing such diverse fields as communication, computing, cryptography, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cosmology, linguistics, and genetics. But when interviewed in the 1980s, Shannon was more interested in showing off the gadgets he’d constructed — juggling robots, a Rubik’s Cube solving machine, a wearable computer to win at roulette, a unicycle without pedals, a flame-throwing trumpet — than rehashing the past. Mixing contemporary interviews, archival film, animation and dialogue drawn from interviews conducted with Shannon himself, The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.

Al-Jazeera – Crimea Russia’s Dark Secret (2018)

Al-Jazeera – Crimea: Russia’s Dark Secret (2018)
English | Size: 545 MB
Category: Tutorial


A harrowing look at killings and kidnappings undertaken by Russia to scare off Crimea’s Muslim Tatars.

Smithsonian Ch. – Battle of Little Bighorn (2018)

Smithsonian Ch. – Battle of Little Bighorn (2018)
English | Size:
Category: Documentary


The Battle of Little Bighorn lasted nearly 24 hours on June 25, 1876, but the stage had been set decades earlier as settlers, prospectors, and business people began encroaching on Native Americans’ sacred land. From the Lakota Sioux facing broken treaties to the attacks that ultimately led up to Bighorn, follow these events unfold. Then, see how this pivotal moment in history marked the beginning of the end of freedom on the Great Plains, the birth of an American cliche, and an ongoing fight for identity against the tyranny of progress.