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Medium
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Customer Experience 3.0 is here

Perceived value = Partnership - Control
Experience 1.0 was based in the physical world while Experience 2.0 is centered around digital interfaces
www.fastcompany.com
10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

The first statue made by generative AI is the love child of 5 famous sculptors

The Impossible Statue is an impressive 5-foot, half-a-ton stainless steel figure now standing at the Tekniska Museet, the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.It's a statue not made by humans, but by a generative artificial intelligence trained in the styles of five of the greatest sculptors of all time: Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, Kathe Kollwitz, Takamura Kotaro, and Augusta Savage.
Inverse
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

'The Artifice Girl' Review: Brilliant Indie Sci-Fi Movie Bucks an Alarmist Trend

AI focused-stories, much like the AI at the center of them, are getting out of control.Now that students are using ChatGPT to skirt their homework and "grandma hacks" are subverting OpenAI's most strict restraints on its own technology, sci-fi is doing what it does best - extrapolating to the worst possible scenario.
TechCrunch
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Covariant's CEO on building AI that helps robots learn

Peter Chen joined us at ProMat in Chicago last week to discuss how teaching robots to pick up objects builds a broader foundation for learning

Covariant was founded in 2017 with a simple goal: helping robots learn how to better pick up objects.It's a large need among those looking to automate warehouses, and one that is much more complex than it might appear.
www.fastcompany.com
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI unveils new GPT-4 language model that allows ChatGPT to see'

After months of refinement and safety testing, OpenAI has deemed GPT-4, its largest and most comprehensive AI model to date, ready for primetime.The San Francisco-based startup unveiled GPT-4 on its research blog on Tuesday.GPT-4 expands on the capabilities of OpenAI's most recently deployed large language model, GPT-3.5, which powers the popular ChatGPT chatbot.
Amazic
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

8 AI Projects That Are Still Thriving Despite The Gloomy Economy - Amazic

Some startups are also unaffected by recent economic trends and have surpassed expectations with their funding rounds.Here are the top 8 AI startups to watch out for in 2023:
Chat GPT, made by Open.ai, has clearly been the most talked about AI project since its launch in November 2022 followed closely by DALL-E, their other AI project.
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experiences
Design Milk
9 months ago
Design

WantedDesign Manhattan 2023: Best of Students + Schools Winners

Now that WantedDesign Manhattan 2023 has wrapped, we're thrilled to share the final winners for the Best of Students and Schools, a showcase sponsored by iconic Italian housewares brand Alessi and presented with Design Milk.Words from sponsor Alessi's president, Alberto Alessi, on what design is today:
Walking away with the Best of Schools award, UK-based Northumbria University won for their Tools for Everyday Life, a project born from a brief pitched to the school's BA(Hons) 3D Design program (including academic staff, graduates, and Designers in Residence).
VentureBeat
1 year ago
Marketing

IAB releases guide for brands to start marketing in the metaverse

Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit Next 2022?All sessions are now available for viewing in our on-demand library.Click here to start watching.The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released its Metaverse for Brands Guide, designed to help marketers evaluate their options.The report includes key definitions, an overview of current metaverse-like experiences and examples of successful metaverse marketing campaigns.
MarTech
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Manifesto for the makers of the metaverse

We all have a part to play in the making of the metaverse.
www.thedrum.com
1 year ago
Online marketing

Experts at Advertising Week discuss the metaverse: your next superpower'

Many agencies understand that the metaverse is going to be a big deal but fewer understand how and where they'll fit into this emerging virtual ecosystem.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

Meta Quest Pro is an expensive gamble on the future of the metaverse - Yanko Design

Although almost everyone still refers to it as Facebook, changing its official name to Meta shows just how much the company, or at least CEO Mark Zuckerberg, believes that the metaverse is the future not just of computing but also of social.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

The Many Violations of the Violent Birth Scene

Does the gory surprise C-section in "House of the Dragon" represent a grim historical reality, an urgent political statement or a worn cultural cliché?
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RT @round: Principles of Spatial Design:
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Apple Developer
9 months ago
UX design

Design for spatial user interfaces - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer

♪ Mellow instrumental hip-hop ♪ Miquel Estany Rodriguez: Hi, I'm Miquel Estany Rodriguez.Lorena Pazmino: And I'm Lorena Pazmino, and we're from the Apple Design team.Today, we're going to talk about how to design spatial user interfaces.To help you get started on this platform, we've built a visual language that maintains consistency and familiarity with our existing platforms, while also evolving certain elements to adapt to immersive and spatial experiences.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

Turning users into AI, UX personality test, modeling components in Figma

Weekly curated resources for designers - thinkers and makers.Modern products often have a large amount of user research data from different sources: user research interviews, intercom conversations, customer e-mails, surveys, customer reviews on various platforms, and whatnot.Making sense of all that data is a challenging task.
The-brandidentity
2 years ago
UX design

The Brand Identity

International paper manufacturer Winter & Company have partnered with 3D rendering software company Chaos; contributing to the latter's renowned and comprehensive Chaos Scans Library by adding their equally comprehensive catalogue of materials for luxury packaging, books and displays. Totalling more than 1,300 textures, including 500 coated papers, 300 uncoated papers, 250 textile leather imitations and 120 metallic papers, as well as the 300 Foilco stamping foils that were introduced to the library previously.
Medium
2 years ago
UX design

Why do we round corners

Rounded corners - they're everywhere.From software user interfaces to hardware product design, there is something intrinsically satisfying about the look and feel of a rounded corner.
Creative Bloq
9 months ago
Graphic design

I'm in love with the new Spider-Man movie's world designs

(Image credit: Sony/Marvel)
It's only early June, but we may already have the most visually gorgeous film of the year, thanks to Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse swinging into cinema screens across the world over the last few days.Like the previous film in Sony's franchise about the animated adventures of Miles Morales and the fast-increasing number of interdimensional spider-people he encounters, Into The Spider-Verse, Across The Spider-Verse's reception has been rapturous, be it from critics - 95% 'fresh' reviews on Rotten Tomatoes - film fans - 9.1/10 and currently sitting in the top 20 for the best films of all time on IMDb - or general audiences - $120 million in the US alone on its opening weekend, with at least $100 million more coming in from across the world as figures are revealed this morning.
Medium
2 years ago
UX design

Should "cancel" be a button or a link?

1. Cultivating a positive company culture is essential for any business to succeed. It helps to build trust, loyalty, and collaboration amongst employees, resulting in increased productivity and morale.
2. Companies that prioritize employee wellness initiatives demonstrate a commitment to their workforce and can create a more positive work environment.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

What Scares You? A Few of the Most Frightening Developments in IP Law

Intellectual property (IP) law developments may not be high up on most people's list of worst nightmares this Halloween, but for IP owners and lawyers, they can cause a fright.During IPWatchdog's recent Life Sciences Masters 2022, for example, panelist Robert Sahr of Wolf Greenfield commented that obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) law "is dark and full of terrors" for life science patent holders.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

What Scares You? A Few of the Most Frightening Developments in IP Law

Intellectual property (IP) law developments may not be high up on most people's list of worst nightmares this Halloween, but for IP owners and lawyers, they can cause a fright.During IPWatchdog's recent Life Sciences Masters 2022, for example, panelist Robert Sahr of Wolf Greenfield commented that obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) law "is dark and full of terrors" for life science patent holders.
Medium
2 years ago
UX design

Should "cancel" be a button or a link?

A common type of dialogue that is often presented when interacting with a web app, is the "cancel" option.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
10 months ago
Design

The LEXUS DESIGN AWARD 2023 Winners put on a grand exhibition at Milan Design Week - Yanko Design

The 11th LEXUS DESIGN AWARD came to a grand conclusion with the 4 Winning Designs being showcased at Milan Design Week.All winners wonderfully captured Lexus' brand ethos of "Design for a Better Tomorrow", with the Fog-X by Pavels Hedström also winning the 'Your Choice Award'.The LEXUS DESIGN AWARD was envisioned to be a platform that helps the next generation of creatives to realize their ideas for a better future.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

Unihertz Luna is a Nothing Phone (1) clone that turned eyeballs at MWC 2023 - Yanko Design

The Nothing Phone (1) didn't live up to its hype as expected (maybe the expectations were sky-high) and better is likely to come in its successor.That said a knock-off version of Carl Pei's smartphone got spotted at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2023.Carl was even seen holding the device alongside his own Phone (1) and the similarity is undeniable.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

Lenovo goes beyond computing with Tab Extreme, Smart Paper, and Project Chronos at CES 2023 - Yanko Design

We've seen plenty of new laptops and desktops so far at CES 2023, especially since silicon giants Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA have all announced their newest, shiniest, and most powerful processors to date.While these cover the majority of computing needs, especially gaming, they aren't the only personal computers available to us today.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

RIMOWA luggage jumps into the metaverse phygital market with RTFKT NFT collab - Yanko Design

After a short period of relative silence, the metaverse became a hot topic again in no small part thanks to Mark Zuckerberg's and Meta's most recent buzz, which, unsurprisingly, split people into camps again.Some say or are hoping that the metaverse is already dead and, along with it, the more controversial NFTs.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

The Atari VR Headset brings back the nostalgia of old-school gaming in a new immersive avatar - Yanko Design

Personally, VR feels more like the future of gaming than consoles do.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

This printer concept saves paper by using a roll instead of sheets - Yanko Design

We live in a predominantly digital world, where many artifacts like documents, images, and even currency now exist as a collection of ones and zeroes.
Creative Bloq
1 year ago
Graphic design

Unreal Engine 5 review

In our Unreal Engine 5 review, we're taking a look at something the world waited eight years for.UE5 represents a mammoth leap forward in technology for the games industry and completely redefines the playing field for the future of gaming, augmented reality and whatever the future holds for the digital parallel of the physical world.
Medium
2 years ago
Graphic design

You think you know Afrikan fonts? Think again

I find it mind-boggling to see what is commonly referred to as Afrikan fonts, Afrikan typeface or Afrikan typography.Latinization.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives

Nintendo will soon close the digital storefronts for the Wii U and 3DS.Nintendo/Jamal Michel On March 27, Nintendo will shutter digital storefronts for the Wii U and 3DS consoles for good.That means classic games like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies or Pokemon X & Y will no longer be widely purchasable on the aging hardware, driving a hot discussion about how this ephemeral but beloved medium can be preserved as official access gets more limited.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

In 'Season: A letter to the future,' scrapbooking is your doomsday prep

Season: A letter to the future's protagonist journeys to record the world before a foretold cataclysm.Scavengers Studio There's a lot to love about Season: A Letter to the Future, a breezy new cycling and scrapbooking indie title from Scavenger Studios.Perhaps ironically, the degree to which the game eschews conflict is what left me most conflicted.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97

Gerald Stern speaks to the audience during the National Book Awards in New York Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1998.Stern, one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.
KQED
1 year ago
Music production

At 82, an Experimental Musician Returns to Her Roots With a Little Help from Google Translate

Unlike Hamlet's " what a piece of work is man " monologue, which moves from admiration to condemnation of these humans, "the paragon of animals," "Under an Endless Sky" begins with someone trapped by their technology who still has a chance to experience all that the physical world has to offer.
TechRepublic
1 year ago
E-Commerce

Businesses need simple online purchasing, too: Balance makes that happen

Balance is turning the three-month B2B purchasing window into a 20-second, one-click transaction.
The Paris Review
1 year ago
Books

My Boyfriend Nietzsche and a Boy Like a Baked Alaska - The Paris Review

After two vodka tonics and a cosmo, my ninety-year-old grandmother lifts her glass and says, "But you know that Nietzsche is my boyfriend?""He's my boyfriend."It's all right-we've shared boyfriends before.The actor Javier Bardem.Errol Louis, anchor at NY1.Her new neighbor.Her many doctors.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

MIT researchers create X-ray vision headset

Technology The device, known as X-AR, is designed to help people locate specific items in small environments.Researchers at MIT have developed a headset that lets people track and find items hidden from view, effectively giving them X-ray vision.Through the use of techniques called computer vision and wireless perception, the headset automatically locates specific items that are not in the wearer's line of sight.
www.vice.com
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Here's How Art Schools Are Dealing With The Rise of AI Generators

To prepare for the 2023 spring semester, New York University professor Winnie Song did something she's never had to do before: she created AI art guidelines for her students.Song, an assistant arts professor in the Game Center at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, is not the only art instructor thinking about this.
Digiday
1 year ago
Marketing

How NFTs could evolve for brands - now that marketers know what they actually are

| By Michael Bürgi



For the most part, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been a bust for the marketing and media worlds, mostly the terrain of crypto buffs who invested a lot of coin in seemingly similar-looking pieces of virtual art.That era, or what Tyler Moebius calls NFT 1.0 is rapidly coming to an end, as the 2.0 era empowers marketers and their agencies to use the Web3 technology as next-generation loyalty and data gathering tools.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

The BMW i Vision Dee concept car changes into 32 different colours

BMW has unveiled an updated version of its colour-changing car technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, expanding the concept from black and white to a full colour palette.The German auto brand presented the technology as part of its latest concept car, the BMW i Vision Dee, which is on display at CES 2023.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Writing

Six reasons why artist's artist Paul Cezanne is hailed as 'greatest of us all'

aul Cézanne, born in 1839, who painted quietly up to his death in 1906, is the unrivalled modern artist's modern artist, called the "greatest of us all" by Claude Monet.
Medium
1 year ago
Graphic design

The problem of clock font size in Apple iOS 16

With all the UI changes that Apple introduced in iOS 16, including the Dynamic Island that got a lot of media attention, one subtle change hugely impacted almost everyone.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Games

Wordle: The Party Game isn't really the first Wordle board game

On Thursday, The New York Times and Hasbro announced Wordle: The Party Game, a $20 physical version of the viral web game hit that will be available starting in October.
Theregister
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Cybercriminals are doing their homework in latest banking scam

A new social engineering scam is making the rounds, and this one is particularly insidious: It tricks users into sending money to what they think is their own account to reverse a fraudulent charge.
New Relic
1 year ago
DevOps

Everything I needed to know about tech, I learned from The Rings of Power, part three

Understand who you are
One of the wonderful insights I gained as I watched Rings of Power was the fundamental ethic and core essence of each group.Elves, for example, strive for harmony above all other things.Their buildings mirror the surrounding natural landscape; their language practically glides along the air currents between speaker and listener; their weapons act as an extension of the person wielding them; their writing flows on the page as if the ink were merely following the already-present curves in the fibers themselves.
Berlin Art Link
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Portraits of the Posthuman: Jon Rafman and AI | Berlin Art Link

by Matteo Calla // Dec. 20, 2022
In a sense, the set-up of Sprüth Magers' second floor gallery space in Mitte Berlin, in which Jon Rafman's 'Counterfeit Poast' was exhibited this Fall, wasn't so different from the neoclassical rotundas of the Schinkel Pavillon, where the artist's work can still be seen until January 22.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Timberland's Ezra Martin Talks Hyperlocal Marketing | AdExchanger

By
Ezra Martin spends a lot of time these days thinking about a yellow boot.In 1973, Timberland - then called Abington Shoe Company - debuted its waterproof yellow boots.In 2023, the outdoor apparel and accessories company will observe the boot's 50th anniversary.And Martin, Timberland's newly minted vice president of marketing, Americas, will be rolling out a new marketing strategy for the occasion.
MarTech
2 years ago
Marketing tech

Adobe CEO: Make the digital economy personal

"All businesses must redefine how we engage with customers and deliver digital experiences at unprecedented scale," said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen in his opening remarks at Adobe Summit today.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Myleene Klass and Jo Frost among celebrities backing Online Safety Bill

Myleene Klass, Jo Frost and Jermaine Jenas are among the famous faces who have come out in support of the Online Safety Bill as it returns to Parliament.The new internet safety laws would require tech companies to remove illegal material from their platforms, with a particular emphasis on protecting children from seeing harmful content.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

For Emma Corrin, Identity Is an Ever-Evolving Project

The British actor Emma Corrin knew that signing on to star in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the racy D.H. Lawrence novel, would mean nudity and sex  and lots of it.They were even prepared to be wet, thanks to a pivotal scene in the rain, when the titular couple (Corrin as the lady and Jack O'Connell as the paramour) lovingly frolic naked.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

Tuvalu Turns to Metaverse as Rising Seas Threaten Existence

The Pacific island-nation of Tuvalu said it intends to replicate itself in the metaverse to preserve its history and culture amid threatened submersion by rising sea levels.Tuvalu foreign minister Simon Kofe told the COP27 climate summit, "Our land, our ocean, our culture are the most precious assets of our people and to keep them safe from harm, no matter what happens in the physical world, we will move them to the cloud."
www.kvue.com
1 year ago
Writing

Gerald Stern, beloved prize-winning poet, dies at 97

NEW YORK  Gerald Stern, one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.He was 97.Stern, New Jersey's first poet laureate, died Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari.
Independent
1 year ago
Writing

Prize-winning poet Gerald Stern dies aged 97

Gerald Stern, one of America's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humour about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died aged 97.tern, New Jersey's first poet laureate, died on Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Writing

Gerald Stern, prize-winning American lyrical poet, dies aged 97

Gerald Stern, one of the US's most loved and respected poets, who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humour about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.He was 97.Stern, New Jersey's first poet laureate, died on Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
Writing

Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97

By Hillel Italie | Associated Press NEW YORK  Gerald Stern, one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.He was 97.Stern, New Jersey's first poet laureate, died Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Writing

Seven Steeples by Sara Baume review - an astonishing prose poem

he Irish writer and artist Sara Baume is still best known for her 2015 debut, Spill Simmer Falter Wither; Seven Steeples, her third novel, is a glacially beautiful book.
Calm Sage - Your Guide to Mental and Emotional Well-being
1 year ago
Mental health

Understanding Phasmophobia (Fear of Ghosts): Let's Face Your Fear Together!

Phasmophobia is the fear of ghosts or phobia of the supernatural which merely includes supernatural things like vampires, witches, ghosts, and more.
time.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Russia Wants to Lock Ukraine Back in the Soviet Cellar

As Putin gave his latest rant of resentment in the Kremlin, hinting at Cold War style nuclear threats, medieval holy war with the satanic West, and restoring the USSR by annexing slices of Ukraine, the Ukrainian army continued liberating parts of the country he was claiming to annex.
Deep House London
1 year ago
London music

EventsFrame launches new NFT Ticketing platform for the masses | News | Deep House London

As it embraces this new world and taps into the untold potential of the latest technology, EventsFrame's offering is set to become the mainstream standard for NFT ticketing.
Nytimes
1 year ago
National Basketball Association

She's an Influencer. But What Will She Do With Her Influence?

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Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

Muji cloud is a fun tool to condense paper into small pile of shreds - Yanko Design

Identity theft is easily one of the biggest worries in the online space, we all know that by now.
Theregister
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

DeepMind AI reacts to impossible situations much like a baby

DeepMind has looked to developmental psychology to help AI gain a basic understanding of the physical world.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

Bring the coveted Japanese paper to your desk with these minimal drawing pads - Yanko Design

In an age of sophisticated apps and devices, the simplicity of paper can actually help remind us to think outside the box.
San Francisco Chronicle
1 year ago
Remote teams

Airbnb tells employees they can 'live and work anywhere'

Airbnb is allowing its employees around the world to live and work anywhere - a move that company leaders on Thursday called "the start of a new chapter" that will put workplace flexibility above location.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Tech industry

Snap unveils a flying camera called Pixy.

Snap, the maker of the Snapchat messaging app, has long positioned itself as a camera company.
On Thursday, it unveiled a flying one.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Tech industry

Snap unveils a flying camera called Pixy.

Snap, the maker of the Snapchat messaging app, has long positioned itself as a camera company.
On Thursday, it unveiled a flying one.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Tech industry

Looking good in the metaverse. Fashion brands bet on digital clothing

Decentraland is a virtual world where you can dress up your avatar.
Miranda Mazariegos Since the age of 15, Chris Ierino has been infatuated with the Ralph Lauren brand.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

This projector concept frees sticky notes from physical limits - Yanko Design

Ever since their invention, sticky notes have almost replaced 3×5 index cards as the analog tool of choice for taking quick notes, putting reminders everywhere, and trying to make sense of a sea of notes scattered on a wall or floor.
www.vice.com
1 year ago
Music

'It's Happening, Slowly but Surely': Who Killed Hyperpop?

We're working on killing it is the first thing glaive told VICE when asked about the future of hyperpop.
It's happening slowly but surely.
Engadget
2 years ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta is working on an AI 'builder bot' for the metaverse | Engadget

Mark Zuckerberg may still be explaining exactly what the metaverse is, but the Meta CEO just showed off another technology he says will be crucial to the company's vision of creating immersive environments.
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