The New York Times has teamed up with Google Cloud for digitizing five to seven million old photos in its archive. Google’s AI will also be tasked with unearthing “untold stories” in the massive trove of historical images.
On Lasso, users can record themselves dancing and lip-syncing to music, similar to what they can do on TikTok. Facebook told The Verge: “Lasso is a new standalone app for short-form, entertaining videos — from comedy to beauty to fitness and more. We’re excited about the potential here, and we’ll be gathering feedback from people and creators.”
The new documentary series Shut Up and Dribble, which premiered the first of its three parts this weekend on Showtime, is a response to commentator Laura Ingraham's dismissive February 2018 sneer in the direction of LeBron James, one of the series' executive producers.
The computer musical instrument that changed the face of music
http://www.fortheloveofthefairlight.com/
Normally, an Apple product becomes vintage once five years have passed since it was last manufactured, meaning that Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) will no longer repair or service the product.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/01/apple-adds-iphone-5-to-vintage-repair-pilot/
Mike D and Ad-Rock recount several more stories from their newly revealed, Beastie Boys Book, on The Tonight Show.
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/11/beastie-boys-sabotage-sound-engineer/
Samer Dabra uses a drawing machine called the AxiDraw and a custom program to generate Impressionistic line drawings of people. The machine builds the portraits using four single lines drawn in the four CMYK colors, one on top of another, with minimal tweaking from Dabra. Rion Nakaya of The Kid Should See This edited together a video of the machine creating drawings.
https://kottke.org/18/10/a-robot-that-draws-algorithmically-generated-portraits
På min ordinarie arbetsplats, SVT, talas det just nu väldigt mycket om rörlig bild för webben. Eller VODar, som vi av någon outgrundlig anledning kommit att kalla de videoklipp som du kan se i SVT Nyheters app.
Hör Per Eurenius, projektledare om tanken bakom programmet och Nina Glans, chef för P1:s utbud om framtiden.
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1650&artikel=7077709
Fenomenet förskolor och äldreboenden i samma hus verkar öka. I ett 10-tal kommuner byggs det, planeras för eller existerar det redan.
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?artikel=7075121&programid=83
