Under the direction of Alex Timbers, "Here Lies Love" slickly employs live video projections of some scenes to simulate black-and-white TV news broadcasts, an effective aesthetic device that seems to layer the characters' personal context with larger, historical implications.

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Zuckerberg imagines Facebook as, eventually, a layer underneath almost every electronic device.

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As you can tell, the device itself is encased in a ShockMount layer of protective armor, and we have to stress the "armor" aspect.

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By aiming to have one platform run across multiple device footprints, they can leverage the support and tools from the desktop version of Ubuntu and put them into a mobile device running the same code, but with a mobile UI layer on the top.

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Unlike most other portable media players on the market, the device will play EPAC files instead of MP3 (Motion Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer 3) files, the companies said.

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The device had been dropped and had a broken interior liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, though its outer glass layer was intact.

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