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The New Yorker
1 day ago
Fashion & style

Ana Juan's "Clickbait"

Pet owners use apps to keep animals entertained like parents do for kids.
Ana Juan's illustration symbolizes dependence on technology. [ more ]
Design
Itsnicethat
6 days ago
Design

Hannah Robinson takes inspiration from 1950s poster design and her dad's toilet humour

Hannah Robinson's work is filled with humor and charm inspired by her upbringing and influences.
She combines traditional and modern elements in her illustrations, with a focus on foodie spots and editorial work. [ more ]
Design Milk
2 weeks ago
Design

Desktop Wallpaper: April 2024 With Clare Owen

Clare Owen, a Bristol-based illustrator, is featured in this month's Designer Desktop with a playful pattern inspired by iconic figures and her travels.
The pattern, available for download, showcases artful arrangements of shapes with organic textures created by marker ink flow. [ more ]
designboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago
Design

paris 2024 reveals intricate posters celebrating olympic and paralympic games

Illustrator Ugo Gattoni created two vibrant posters for Paris 2024 Olympics, showcasing detailed layers of narratives.
The posters blend iconic landmarks with athletic energy, incorporating elements like the Olympic Rings and representing new sports added to the program. [ more ]
Design Milk
1 month ago
Design

Desktop Wallpaper: March 2024 With Di Ujdi

March marks the beginning of spring, symbolized by the first day on March 19th.
Nina Cvijović (Di Ujdi) is known for whimsical illustrations inspired by nature, thrifted items, mid-century designs, and childhood books. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
4 months ago
Design

I adore the playfulness of Omlet's pet-centred rebrand

Pet brand Omlet has undergone a stylish rebrand that prioritizes pets in its branding, marking a modern shift in the marketing of pet products.
The rebrand features a new 3D illustrative style that mimics the brand's playful approach and reflects the brand's mission to prioritize the needs of pets over humans. [ more ]
Design Milk
10 months ago
Design

Desktop Wallpaper: June 2023

It's unofficially time for summer to begin, and we're celebrating with a bold, geometric Designer Desktop by Daniel Ramirez Perez!A true creative, Daniel works in illustration, design, and motion, launching his own illustration studio in 2014.A background in fashion - he interned at Vivienne Westwood!
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Graphic design
Creative Bloq
2 weeks ago
Graphic design

"It was an extremely complicated production": How we made Cannonball!

The story behind naming 'Taxi Studio' showcases agency positioning and values.
The book 'Elephant, Pelican, Mouse' highlights problem-solving and collaboration through characters. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
2 weeks ago
Graphic design

I can't get enough of these striking Japanese posters for Hollywood movies

Japan excels in vibrant movie poster design for Hollywood films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s with retro pulp vibes.
Japanese movie posters combine photography, illustration, and bold typography to create unique and eye-catching visuals. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
1 month ago
Graphic design

How to design engaging book cover art

Redesign dust jackets periodically to stand out among new releases
Consider story essence and target audience during the design process. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
1 month ago
Graphic design

The Paris 2024 Olympic posters are a feast for the eyes

The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games posters are highly detailed and rich in symbolism, embodying a blend of old and new culture.
The illustrations created by French illustrator Ugo Gattoni are inspired by diptych design, signifying the unity of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
1 month ago
Graphic design

I love these delightful 2024 Oscar nominee illustrations

Olly Gibbs creates stylish Oscars-themed illustrations
His designs reference Best Picture nominees with playful creativity. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
1 month ago
Graphic design

Animal Farm book cover has a creepy hidden detail

The simple book cover of Animal Farm is a timeless design masterpiece with hidden details.
Illustrator Karolis Strautniekas expertly transforms classic tale elements into visual storytelling features. [ more ]
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Web design
Design You Trust
2 weeks ago
Web design

The Superb Minimalist Illustrations by Noma Bar

Noma Bar is a renowned artist, illustrator, and graphic designer known for his work featured in various prestigious publications.
Bar has created over 100 magazine covers, published numerous illustrations, and authored three books, showcasing a prolific and diverse body of work. [ more ]
Design You Trust
1 month ago
Web design

The Superb Surreal Self Portraits by Liron Eini

Liron Eini's collaboration with Idan Barazani on Instagram produced iconic, vibrant photos.
Eini's digital art and illustration reflect personal stories and draw viewers into an alternate world. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
4 months ago
Web design

I adore the playfulness of Omlet's pet-centred rebrand

Pet brand Omlet has undergone a stylish rebrand that prioritizes pets in its branding, marking a modern shift in the marketing of pet products.
The rebrand features a new 3D illustrative style that mimics the brand's playful approach and reflects the brand's mission to prioritize the needs of pets over humans. [ more ]
Medium
4 months ago
Web design

An updated illustration style for Document Cloud

Adobe is creating a new visual language for its Document Cloud products to improve consistency and connectivity between apps and platforms.
The illustrative approach includes a continuous line and loop, a hand, and Acrobat's workflow icons, allowing for versatility and a range of topics. [ more ]
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Creative Bloq
1 month ago
Graphic design

Vertex 2024 speaker: gain tips on meeting clients' demands from Andy Hammond

Career beginnings shaped by meeting a director who recognized talent.
Working on Alba: A Wildlife Adventure music video as a memorable, skillful project. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
2 months ago
Graphic design

You could be Neil Gaiman's new cover artist

The annual Folio Book Illustration Awards is open for submissions to all artists.
The winner of the awards will be commissioned to illustrate a limited edition of Neil Gaiman's short stories. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
2 months ago
Graphic design

We've already seen some stunning film posters in 2024

The trend of beautiful movie posters with painterly, illustrative styles is gaining momentum in 2024.
Some notable examples include the poster for Challengers, The First Omen, and a rerelease of Terrence Malik's 1978 film. [ more ]
Online marketing
The Drum
3 months ago
Online marketing

Exasperated pet owner can't teach goldfish new tricks in kookie banking spot

A humorous ad campaign by House 337 uses a goldfish named Spike to encourage people to consider switching bank accounts.
The campaign features murals by illustrator Sam Gilbey in London, Leeds, Manchester, and Glasgow. [ more ]
The Drum
3 months ago
Online marketing

Exasperated pet owner can't teach goldfish new tricks in kookie banking spot

A humorous ad campaign by House 337 uses a goldfish named Spike to encourage people to consider switching bank accounts.
The campaign features murals by illustrator Sam Gilbey in London, Leeds, Manchester, and Glasgow. [ more ]
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The Drum
3 months ago
Marketing

Exasperated pet owner can't teach goldfish new tricks in kookie banking spot

A humorous ad campaign by House 337 uses a goldfish named Spike to encourage people to consider switching bank accounts.
The campaign features murals by illustrator Sam Gilbey in London, Leeds, Manchester, and Glasgow. [ more ]
www.npr.org
3 months ago
Books

Mop-mop-swoosh-plop it's rug-washing day in 'Babo'

Babo is a book about Armenian joy and the beauty of Armenian family.
The book is inspired by the childhood experiences of the author and illustrator, who grew up washing rugs with their grandmothers. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
5 months ago
Books

The 2023 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books

The winners of The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award are chosen each year by a panel of expert judges.
The judges selected their winners based on artistic merit from nearly 800 submissions.
The book At the Drop of a Cat tells the story of a grandfather and grandson connecting through the language of birds. [ more ]
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Books

Mary Trump, E. Jean Carroll and Jennifer Taub launch romance novel on Substack

1. Mary Trump, E. Jean Carroll, and Jennifer Taub have all recently released romance novels through the publishing platform Substack.
2. All three authors have been outspoken critics of President Trump, with Mary Trump being a particularly vocal critic of the Trump family.
3. By publishing their
www.thenation.com
11 months ago
Books

Who Was Lydia Maria Child?

Illustration by Liam Eisenberg.Biography was once the elegant matriarch of nonfiction.Smelling faintly of lavender, she clutched her pearls when the story got too personal, or the author intruded on the narrative to address the reader, or the political machinery showed through the corseted layers of her heaving bodice.
Slate Magazine
11 months ago
Books

The Deeply Funny Children's Book That Tries to Make a Hero of King Charles

When an appalling catastrophe dominates the news-9/11, natural disasters, the school shooting of the week-articles about how to explain such tragedies to children pop up like mushrooms after a heavy rain.But here is a previously unaddressed question: How do we talk to kids about King Charles III? Why, young minds might inquire, is the adult world so obsessed with a man who has spent almost of all of his life waiting around for his mom to die?
Creative Bloq
3 months ago
Graphic design

Studio Ghibli's latest New Year's illustration is my favourite Miyazaki design yet

Studio Ghibli released an exclusive illustration by Hayao Miyazaki for the New Year depicting a friendly wood dragon.
Miyazaki's illustration is part of Studio Ghibli's tradition of releasing New Year's greetings following Japan's 'nengajo' custom. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
4 months ago
Graphic design

I adore the playfulness of Omlet's pet-centred rebrand

Pet brand Omlet has undergone a stylish rebrand that prioritizes pets in its branding, marking a modern shift in the marketing of pet products.
The rebrand features a new 3D illustrative style that mimics the brand's playful approach and reflects the brand's mission to prioritize the needs of pets over humans. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
4 months ago
Graphic design

I adore the playfulness of Omlet's pet-centred rebrand

Pet brand Omlet has undergone a stylish rebrand that prioritizes pets in its branding, marking a modern shift in the marketing of pet products.
The rebrand features a new 3D illustrative style that mimics the brand's playful approach and reflects the brand's mission to prioritize the needs of pets over humans. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
4 months ago
Graphic design

I adore the playfulness of Omlet's pet-centred rebrand

Pet brand Omlet has undergone a stylish rebrand that prioritizes pets in its branding, marking a modern shift in the marketing of pet products.
The rebrand features a new 3D illustrative style that mimics the brand's playful approach and reflects the brand's mission to prioritize the needs of pets over humans. [ more ]
Itsnicethat
4 months ago
Graphic design

Facts & Figures: Sebastian Konig's self-initiated zine goes back to basics

Sebastian's project 'Facts & Figures' features artwork in a single color without shading.
Sebastian focused on the shapes of characters and objects to demonstrate their function and meaning. [ more ]
Itsnicethat
4 months ago
Graphic design

I'm melting! The Allday Goods rebrand is inspired by dripping plastic

Graphic designer Darren Shaddick has revamped the knife brand Allday Goods, pairing colorful handles made from plastic waste with durable blades.
The brand's new look is illustration-heavy, with motion design used freely, capturing the combination of tradition and ingenuity.
Allday Goods works with a fourth-generation forge in Japan, creating an unexpected union of plastic handles and forged knives. [ more ]
Itsnicethat
4 months ago
Graphic design

I'm melting! The Allday Goods rebrand is inspired by dripping plastic

Graphic designer Darren Shaddick has revamped the knife brand Allday Goods, pairing colorful handles made from plastic waste with durable blades.
The brand's new look is illustration-heavy, with motion design used freely, capturing the combination of tradition and ingenuity.
Allday Goods works with a fourth-generation forge in Japan, creating an unexpected union of plastic handles and forged knives. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Running

Rats, Summer Reads and a Virgin's Dilemma: Audio Highlights

This week, we went inside a courtroom where Donald Trump was indicted, again; met a man who couldn't give up his pet rats; and found joy in running Slow AF.Welcome to your weekly newsletter from New York Times Audio, where app editors share their favorite listens.If you haven't already, download the New York Times Audio app to hear these stories.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Tech industry

A.I.'s Inner Conflict, Nvidia Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club, and Hard Questions

A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the risk of extinction from the technology.But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia.Here's how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.
Creative Bloq
10 months ago
Graphic design

"It's terrifying" - Greg Rutkowski is the most prompted artist on Stable Diffusion

(Image credit: Greg Rutkowski)
AI-generated art can look good, right?Well, meet the artist behind a lot of the fantasy images you'll likely see popping up online.He's not a fan of AI art generators.He's not created the AI art you may have scrolled over.But his name is behind a lot of it.Greg Rutkowski is a seasoned digital fantasy artist behind some of the most popular Dungeons & Dragons art, and key art for the wildly popular MMORPG Neverwinter by Cryptic Studios, as well as work for Magic: The Gathering and Horizon Forbidden West.
Creative Bloq
11 months ago
Graphic design

This AI-generated book cover is causing controversy

(Image credit: Bloomsbury/Future/Adobe/Aperture Vintage)
AI-generated art has been causing controversy for a while now, with concerns over copyright and ethics plaguing text-to-image generators.Perhaps the most existential worry of all is the idea that AI could put human artists out of work - and while many still find the idea fanciful, we're already seeing examples of AI-generated art being used commercially.
Creative Bloq
11 months ago
Graphic design

This new peanut butter logo has an ingenious hidden secret

(Image credit: Mothernutter)
Peanut butter is one of those foods that people either love or hate, but whichever side you sit on, it's hard not to love these designs for the new peanut butter producer Mothernutter.The brand has got a funky look to match its cheeky name, with 70s-inspired psychedelic visuals.
www.scientificamerican.com
10 months ago
Science

Useful Feedback, More Than Praise, Helps Students Flourish

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.This proverb has become a cliche, but it remains a useful shorthand for self-sufficiency.If you want someone to succeed independently, give them the tools to do so.Within the realm of education, this principle can inform the ways that teachers give feedback.
www.scientificamerican.com
10 months ago
Science

New Tool Reveals How AI Makes Decisions

When I asked ChatGPT to name the editor in chief of Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German-language sister publication of Scientific American, the answer was, I have the latest information until 2021, and at that time Dr. Florian Freistetter was the editor-in-chief of Spektrum der Wissenschaft.However, it is possible that the information has changed since then.
www.scientificamerican.com
10 months ago
Science

Scientists Make Best-Yet Map of Solar System's Interstellar Boundaries

We live in a bubbleliterally.It's called the heliosphere, and it's made of tenuous plasma billowing from the sun.This ionized gas flows outward along magnetic field lines emerging from our star, spooling out in radial spirals tied to the sun's rotation.To venture beyond where this wind wanes against the greater flows of plasma coursing through our galaxy is, in a very real sense, to leave our solar system behind.
www.standard.co.uk
10 months ago
London

Step Up: Vocational skills helped Daniela Prela become The Ritz chef at 22

W hen Daniela Prela roasted her first chicken, she was afraid she might undercook it and poison her family.But those early experiences of preparing meals fed a passion for the kitchen that would influence the course of her life.A decade later, and with a three-year Professional Chef Diploma under her belt, Prela is a commis chef at The Ritz in London.
LawSites
10 months ago
Law

With Mission to Level the Playing Field in PI Cases through Generative AI, EvenUp Raises $50.5M Series B and Launches AI Legal Assistant

EvenUp, a company that uses AI to turn medical documents and case files into demand packages for personal injury lawyers, has raised $50.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Behance founder Scott Belsky, and Clio Ventures, the investment arm of legal technology company Clio.
Creative Bloq
10 months ago
Graphic design

How to use Adobe Firefly in your concept art workflow

If you're read the hype and need to know how to use Adobe Firefly, then you've come to the right place.This is the latest generative AI but it's a little different; being made by Adobe, Firefly will eventually be integrated into all of the Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop.Adobe Firefly is different from other generative AI like Midjourney because it doesn't need a ton of fancy computers and huge amounts of data to create its images.
Creative Bloq
10 months ago
Graphic design

Wait, the Columbia Pictures logo was made during a lunch break?

(Image credit: Kathy Anderson)
It's one of the most famous logos in film, having opened hundreds of movies.But have you ever wondered, who is the woman in the Columbia Pictures logo?It turns out she wasn't a model or actress.She was a graphic designer on her lunch break, and yet she became the face of one the world's biggest film companies.
The Verge
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

A bestselling fantasy novel is using AI-generated cover art

A prominent fantasy novel features a cover apparently generated with artificial intelligence, sparking complaints from artists and book enthusiasts.Earlier this month, readers noted that the back of the UK edition of Sarah J. Maas' House of Earth and Blood credits Adobe Stock for the illustration of a wolf on its cover.
Washington Post
11 months ago
Marketing

Look out, get-rich-quick schemes are coming to AI

(Illustration by Kat Brooks/The Washington Post; OpenAI; iStock)Basil Chatha wanted to make "as much ... money as possible."So in April, he asked ChatGPT tell him how to quickly turn $1,000 into riches without breaking the law."I'll do everything you say," he wrote.Tech is not your friend.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Right-wing politics

Opinion | Every Trump Indictment Tells a Story

Let's assume, because it seems like a reasonable assumption, that we have not reached the end of the indictments that will be handed down against Donald Trump.Let's assume that either the case in Georgia, where he is being investigated for election tampering, or the special counsel's continuing investigation in Washington, will yield a prosecution related to his conduct between the November 2020 election and the riot on Jan. 6.
Stack Abuse
10 months ago
Python

How to Remove Commas from a String in Python

Introduction
Among the many tasks you may encounter when manipulating strings in Python, one common requirement is to remove certain characters from a string - in this case, commas.Commas can be found in numerous contexts, like CSV files or number representations, and while they serve a useful purpose, there are instances where they can be inconvenient.
TechBeamers
10 months ago
Python

Get Started with DataClasses in Python

Python dataclasses, a powerful feature that simplifies the process of creating classes for storing and manipulating data.Dataclasses are a feature introduced in Python 3.7 as part of the standard library module called dataclasses.We'll explore the concept step by step with easy-to-understand explanations and coding examples.
Stack Abuse
10 months ago
Python

Simple NLP in Python with TextBlob: Lemmatization

Introduction
TextBlob is a package built on top of two other packages, one of them is called Natural Language Toolkit, known mainly in its abbreviated form as NLTK, and the other is Pattern.NLTK is a traditional package used for text processing or Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Pattern is built mainly for web mining.
The New Yorker
10 months ago
Culture

Roz Chast's "Fireworks Megastore"

Even as the debt-ceiling crisis has been averted (for now), and even as we continue to emerge from the pandemic with new life, the smoke from Canadian wildfires that blanketed the eastern part of the country in a toxic haze this week has brought our deep-seated sense of unease to the fore once again.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

Where Documents Were Found at Mar-a-Lago

Former President Donald J. Trump stored classified documents not only in a storage room, but also in a shower, an office, a bedroom and a ballroom, according to the indictment unsealed on Friday.It describes how Mr. Trump moved dozens of boxes containing sensitive documents out of the White House and into Mar-a-Lago, his home and private club in Palm Beach, Fla. Living room and dining room area Trump family suite and Pine Hall Trump family suite and Pine Hall Trump family suite and Pine Hall Federal prosecutors charged Mr. Trump with 37 counts, including 31 counts of withholding national defense information and five counts related to concealing classified documents.
Thisaway
10 months ago
UX design

Thisaway - Team GB

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1. Rebranding Team GB under the Sport England brand is an effective way to increase public awareness and enthusiasm for the team. This can be accomplished through the use of a unified visual identity, improved messaging, and better integration of digital marketing.
2. It is important to understand the target audience of the rebranding in order to create an effective campaign. This includes understanding their interests, motivations, and media consumption habits [ more ]
Insights from Kablamo Engineering.
10 months ago
UX design

Everything You Want To Know About Media Queries and Responsive Design

What is a Media Query?Media queries are a CSS language feature which allow an author to conditionally apply CSS rules according to characteristics of the device or window in which an application is being viewed.Most commonly, these might be according to the viewport width allowing CSS authors to create components and layouts that are responsive to the size of the window or device that they are being viewed in.
Heydonworks
11 months ago
UX design

Functional documentation

Some collected thoughts and ideas around applying a functional approach to writing and maintaining documentation, especially for design systems.In programming, you have these things called functions.Functions are chunks of code, typically identified by name.How you write functions varies between programming languages but why you write them does not.
evilmartians.com
11 months ago
UX design

Icon transcendence: customizing icons to complement fonts-Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians' team blog

Icons are an extremely valuable part of our interfaces, aren't they?They can be used to help deliver easily-understandable messages, reflect some underlying state, or make a statement more powerful.But can we go even deeper than this?How can we leverage fonts' styles and characteristics to create icons that provide more seamless product flows and designs?
www.theguardian.com
10 months ago
Europe politics

EU states refusing to host migrants may have to pay up to 20,000 a head

1. Several European Union countries are currently discussing plans to distribute migrants more evenly among their nations.
2. Luxembourg is hosting the meeting, where representatives are set to discuss how to develop a fairer system for admitting and processing asylum seekers.
3. The EU is looking for a long-term solution that would allow member states to share the burden of taking in and caring for refugees and asylum seekers. [ more ]
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
10 months ago
Intellectual property law

The Intersection of NILS, NFTS, AI Creations, Big Data, and the Metaverse

"NILs, NFTs, AI creations, big data and the metaverse will inevitably intersect.Intellectual property laws will be one traffic cop at this intersection critical to managing traffic."What is at the intersection of name, image likeness rights (NILs), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), artificial intelligence (AI) creations, big data, blockchain and the metaverse?
www.scientificamerican.com
10 months ago
Science

Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It

The Fermi paradox takes its name from a 1950s visit by physicist Enrico Fermi to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.One day, as Fermi was walking to lunch with physicist colleagues Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller and Herbert York, one mentioned a New Yorker cartoon depicting aliens stealing public trash cans from the streets of New York.
Dezeen
10 months ago
Design

Less than a week left to enter Dezeen's 1,000 AI artwork competition

Thanks to everyone who has already taken part in our competition to use AI image generators to design the artwork for Dezeen's next editorial series.If you haven't yet, enter for the chance to win £1,000!Our next editorial series, named AItopia, will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact design and architecture.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
World politics

Your Friday Briefing: Dueling Summits

Image Xi Jinping has sought to deepen China's influence in Central Asia.Credit...Pool photo by Florence Lo As leaders of the world's wealthiest large democracies gathered in Japan for the G7 summit, which begins today, China kicked off its own conference with the leaders of five Central Asian countries.
Dezeen
11 months ago
Design

Dezeen launches AI artwork competition for next editorial series with 1,000 prize

Dezeen's next editorial series will look at how AI will impact design and architecture.To mark the start of the series we are inviting you to create its artwork using the text-to-image generators that are making headlines.Today we are launching the public contest to produce the illustration for our next series, with a £1,000 prize for the winning design.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Opinion | The Twists in the Long Debt Drama

What Succession' Tells Us About America A.I., in Perspective Image Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times To the Editor: Re Agreement Is Reached to Increase Debt Limit, With Cuts in Spending (front page, May 28): The Republicans have done it again.They're putting the onus on the needy, the poor, but giving the wealthy a free ride.
The Verge
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Google's AI tools embrace the dream of Clippy

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Google recently demonstrated how its Duet AI features might soon be able to analyze your work and suggest ways to continue or improve it.If this reminds you of Clippy, then you're not alone.The words "it looks like you're writing a letter, would you like some help with that?" didn't appear at any point during Google's recent demo of its AI office suite tools.
Ars Technica
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

As Alexa flounders, Amazon hopes homegrown generative AI can find it revenue

While voice assistants initially seemed to be a convenient, futuristic way to get information and perform basic tasks, they have barely graduated from that role.And the lack of evolution has left voice assistants surrounded by uncertainty.Google, for example, has shut down third-party Google Assistant smart displays and reportedly shifted Assistant manpower to Bard.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Television

Succession' Is Over. Why Did We Care?

This article includes spoilers for the series finale of Succession.For nearly five years now, certain homes and offices and the punchier corners of social media have dilated around a billion-dollar question: Which wounded nepo baby would succeed Logan Roy, the founder and chief executive of Waystar Royco, as the head of a baleful empire that includes cruise ships, theme parks and ATN, a scaremongering media conglomerate?
Los Angeles Times
10 months ago
California

Mutilated body found in Alabama in 1997 identified through 'genetic genealogy' as California man

Decades after a mutilated body was found in a wooded area in northern Alabama, officials have identified the cold-case victim as a California man through intensive DNA technology and genetic genealogy.The body, found April 15, 1997, in Union Grove, Ala., was discovered along a creek, with its head, feet and hands removed, as well as other parts of the body mutilated, apparently in an attempt to make forensic identification more difficult, according to a news release this week from Alabama's Marshall County Sheriff's Office.
Dezeen
10 months ago
Design

You can still be listed on Dezeen's digital guide to 3 Days of Design 2023

Dezeen Events Guide has launched its guide to the 10th edition of 3 Days of Design, the design festival in Copenhagen that runs from 7 to 9 June 2023.The guide outlines the key events from the festival's programme, including product launches, open showrooms, fairs, exhibitions and installations.The three-day festival takes place in 13 districts in the city, including Kongens Nytorv, Odd Fellow Palæet, Designmuseum and Refshaleøen.
Dezeen
10 months ago
Design

You can still be listed on Dezeen's digital guide to 3 Days of Design 2023

There's still time to be listed in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to the 2023 edition of 3 Days of Design, which takes place from 7 to 9 June 2023 in Copenhagen.The festival, which celebrates its 10th anniversary, includes a programme of open showrooms, product launches, exhibitions, workshops and talks across three days.
Dezeen
11 months ago
Design

Dezeen Events Guide launches digital guide to NYCxDesign 2023

Dezeen has launched a digital guide to NYCxDesign festival, which outlines the key events taking place in New York City from 18 to 25 May 2023.Events include exhibitions, talks, open showrooms and studios, markets, installations and tours, as well as one of the festival's largest events, The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), which partners with WantedDesign.
Dezeen
11 months ago
Design

Get listed in Dezeen's digital guide to 3 Days of Design 2023

Are you hosting an exhibition or event during 3 Days of Design?If so, you can feature in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to the festival in Copenhagen.This year marks 3 Day of Design's 10th anniversary, showcasing more than 280 brands with a programme of exhibitions, open showrooms, product launches, talks and other fringe events.
Nieman Lab
10 months ago
Media industry

Seeing stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of consuming bad news

"If it bleeds, it leads" has long been a saying used in the media to describe how news stories featuring violence, death and destruction grab readers' attention - and so dominate the news agenda.And, while many of us are aware of the negative effect that these kinds of story can have on us, it can still be hard to look away.
SFGATE
10 months ago
SF real estate

5 Cities Where Homebuyers Are Paying Under Asking-and 5 Where Sellers Are Still Raking in a Profit

Illustration by Realtor.comSource: Getty Images If a home's list price is the seller's starting gate and the final purchase price the buyer's finish line, there's a multitude to be learned in the distance between them-especially in today's fraught and ever-elusive real estate market.You hear an increasingly common mantra from real estate agents across the U.S.: Homes priced right still sell fast-and often for above the listing price.
Inverse
11 months ago
Science

Astronomers Discover the Dark Source of the Brightest Cosmic Blast Ever

The science of black holes can often pay massive dividends.On Friday, for instance, two universities announced that their researchers have analyzed "the brightest cosmic explosion ever seen" around one ancient behemoth.The data required to find events like this is hard-won.First, an astronomer must direct instruments to peer into the deep Universe, using light's finite speed to search for superbright events of the past.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
World politics

Catastrophic' Congo Flooding Kills More Than 400 People

The death toll of last week's deadly floods and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo climbed to more than 400 people, the government said on Monday, as rescue workers and family members searched through debris and mud for victims and survivors of the disaster.The flooding began on Thursday, as heavy rains pushed rivers to overflow their banks, causing rushing water and mud to flow into villages, washing away homes and ravaging farmland.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
NYC music

Poem: wild and blue

In wild and blue, the country musician and poet Julian Talamantez Brolaski has written a 21st-century troubadour's lament.The poem begins with light and wind fixtures of poetry.There's the lyric sweetness of herons and mountains.Even Chaucer's zephyr shows up.At its midpoint, however, the poem turns.
Inverse
11 months ago
OMG science

This Comet Could Help Answer Why Earth Looks Like A "Blue Marble"

Comet 238P/Read is a strange rock.Its location just past Mars in the main asteroid belt is an unusual spot for a comet in our Solar System.And it's missing frozen carbon dioxide, frequently found on comets.Comet Read's most compelling quirk, however, is that it definitely has water.In a new study published Monday in the journal Nature, astronomers directed the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) to study Comet 238P/Read using its Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec).
The New Yorker
11 months ago
Business

R. Kikuo Johnson's "Perennial"

We tend to think of New York for its signature buildings, bridges, and monuments-or for its throngs of people-and inadvertently ignore the role played by the trees and parks that make the big city hospitable.In his cover for the May 22, 2023, issue, the artist R. Kikuo Johnson portrays the cycle of the seasons that, acknowledged or not, modulates New Yorkers' emotional lives.
Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
11 months ago
Boston real estate

A Beacon Hill Apartment Story Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

My apologies if this Mothers Day story is well-known to you.It's an old joke, yet a useful illustration of how my day is going
A mother repeatedly called upstairs for her daughter to get up, get dressed, and get ready for school.It was a familiar routine, especially at exam time."I feel sick," said the voice from the bedroom.
Engadget
11 months ago
Apple

The second generation Apple Pencil drops to a new low of $85 | Engadget

Nathan Ingraham / Engadget
Apple's second-generation Pencil stylus is one of the best accessories you can buy for an iPad Pro or iPad Air, but at $125, it's not the most affordable purchase.So it's worth noting when the stylus is on sale like it is right now at Amazon.At the moment, you can get the Apple Pencil for $85, or 34 percent off what it normally costs.
Theregister
11 months ago
Apple

Apple is finally bringing these Pro apps to iPads

Apple has finally seen fit to bring Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to its iPad range.In a surprise announcement a month ahead of the iGiant's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced it was bringing those two Pro apps to its tablets, eight years and six generations after it launched the iPad Pro.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
World politics

Your Friday Briefing: A Guide to the Thai Elections

Image At a polling station during advance voting earlier this week in Thailand.Credit...Madaree Tohlala/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Thai voters are going to the polls on Sunday in an election that could set the country on a path toward ending eight years of military rule.The vote will pit pro-democracy opposition parties against Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the general who seized power in a coup in 2014.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
World politics

A Symbol of Loss in Almost Every Ukrainian Kitchen

Salt gave us work and salt gave us life, said Ruslan, a salt miner turned soldier.Ruslan, 45, was working 1,000 feet below the earth in one of Europe's largest salt mines when the Russians launched their full-scale invasion.Almost a year later, he was fighting near the ruined city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine when the Russians took control of his nearby hometown, and the mine with it.
Itsnicethat
11 months ago
Graphic design

Is every single soft drink rebranding? It seems so with another from Mirinda

PepsiCo and The Coca-Cola Company seem to be locked in a strange graphic design tug of war this year.Nearly every month, one company or the other has launched a total redesign of one of its subsidiaries.The outcome is a dizzying amount of soft drink rebrands, including Fanta, Lilt, 7Up, Minute Maid and, who could forget, Pepsi.
Itsnicethat
11 months ago
Graphic design

Bristol Comedy Garden's rebrand is a "playful fusion of good times and belly laughs"

It might seem an obvious choice for a comedy festival identity to try to visualise laughter, but Oat Studio's recent rebrand for Bristol Comedy Garden is more subtle.Working with illustrator Zac Fay, the studio has embedded the suggestion of smiling into the typography itself.The final identity suggests laughter more subliminally through a curvy wordmark and supporting typeface with moon-shaped descenders on the y's and g's.
Smashing Magazine
11 months ago
JavaScript

The Safest Way To Hide Your API Keys When Using React - Smashing Magazine

Want to make sure your API keys are safe and sound when working with React?Jessica Joseph's got you covered!She will show you the best ways to hide your API keys, from using environment variables to building your own back-end proxy server.Back in the day, developers had to write all sorts of custom code to get different applications to communicate with each other.
Smashing Magazine
11 months ago
JavaScript

Learning JavaScript With Imagination - Smashing Magazine

This is the story of how one little octopus, explaining one beginner's concept, carried such weight and power for Kylo that it drove his interest in visual learning and led him to research something that is really quite silly.And yet, it transformed how he learned to write - and finally understand - JavaScript.
Amazon Web Services
11 months ago
JavaScript

10 ways to build applications faster with Amazon CodeWhisperer | Amazon Web Services

Amazon CodeWhisperer is a powerful generative AI tool that gives me coding superpowers.Ever since I have incorporated CodeWhisperer into my workflow, I have become faster, smarter, and even more delighted when building applications.However, learning to use any generative AI tool effectively requires a beginner's mindset and a willingness to embrace new ways of working.
BBC News
11 months ago
London

Coronation timetable: Your complete guide to the day

Millions of people across the UK and beyond are preparing to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III - a symbolic ceremony combining a religious service and pageantry.It is being held at Westminster Abbey on 6 May and the King, who will be crowned along with Camilla, the Queen Consort, will be the 40th reigning monarch crowned there since 1066.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Family-run royal attraction going all out' for King's coronation

A family-run attraction with thousands of items of royal family memorabilia has said it is going all out to celebrate the King's coronation.The Royal Room at the Jeyes of Earls Barton cafe in Northamptonshire, which displays donated royal memorabilia and items from the Jeyes family's personal collection, has curated a special exhibition dedicated to Charles and will be hosting a valuation day with auctioneer and TV personality Charles Hanson.
RMNB
11 months ago
Washington Capitals

Jack Edwards compares Boston Bruins' loss in Game Seven to Hindenburg disaster

Jack Edwards is the longtime play-by-play man for the Boston Bruins.He's a bit of a homer, which is fine I guess, but sometimes, that bleeding black-and-gold heart can lead him astray.His latest eyebrow-raising comment came after the Bruins were eliminated by the Florida Panthers in Game Seven of the first round.
Eater
11 months ago
Food & drink

Kim-Joy's New Recipe-Filled Graphic Novel Is About More Than Cute Bakes

Kim-Joy is wearing heart-shaped sunglasses indoors.She says she gets migraines from the harsh lights in the office she's sitting in, so she brought them to protect her vision, and why wear plain sunglasses when they could be heart-shaped?But that's the thing about Kim-Joy, who's also wearing a pink and orange spotted sweater and has streaks of pastel in her hair - she never settles for the merely practical.
Dezeen
11 months ago
Design

Seven colourful and playful brand packaging designs from Dezeen's Pinterest

Recent pins on our packaging design board are some of the most popular on Dezeen's Pinterest.We round up the seven most colourful and playful projects.Advances in technology and the rising popularity of social media have increased the need for brightly coloured and distinctive packaging designs to attract customers.
Smashing Magazine
11 months ago
Web development

Make Your May Magnificent (2023 Wallpapers Edition) - Smashing Magazine

May is almost here, so what better occasion could there be for some fresh and inspiring desktop and mobile wallpapers?Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar.Enjoy!Let's welcome May with some new wallpapers!
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

Children could be prescribed weight-loss jabs on the NHS

Children as young as 12 in England could be given weight-loss injections on the NHS after the government asked medical watchdog Nice to assess the potential benefits of prescribing them to under-18s.Department of Health officials have asked the watchdog to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of giving semaglutide injections to obese children aged 12 to 17, in addition to healthy nutrition and increased physical activity, the Observer can reveal.
BBC Sport
11 months ago
Soccer (FIFA)

De Bruyne & Haaland provide Man City's 'silk and steel'

Kevin de Bruyne and Erling Haaland provided the silk and steel as Manchester City's seemingly unstoppable momentum consumed faltering Arsenal in their so-called Premier League title decider at Etihad Stadium.There may well be twists and turns ahead but few would bet against City claiming a fifth title in six seasons after they tore apart the league leaders, the one team who have made a contest of this campaign.
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