[ad_1] SXSW 2019 isn’t just about films, politicians, designers and social media founders. There are also gadgets here to check out. Enter LG’s SnowWhite, a concept machine designed to let you easily make ice cream at home. The SnowWhite is basically like a Keurig, featuring a pod-based system that allows you to choose the base […]
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Why humans must band together to fight the tyranny of tech
[ad_1] It might seem like there's no winning against Facebook and Google, tech companies whose reach and influence are now practically inescapable. Facebook's inability to police its own platform led to widespread misinformation ahead of the 2016 election…. [ad_2] Source link
Magic Leap goes to the theater
[ad_1] “The Seven Ages of Man” first appeared at Sundance Film Festival last year. The three-minute experience shows a volumetrically captured actor reciting the famous speech from “As You Like It.” As he describes the human passage through stages of life, a digital tree in the background blooms then slowly wastes away. In another demo, […]
Instagram founders on Snapchat and breaking up Facebook
[ad_1] Of course, you can’t talk about Instagram without mentioning its Stories feature, which it introduced in 2016 and is now one of the staples of the app. There are now over 500 million people using Instagram Stories daily, and Facebook is confident that number is going to keep growing, since more users are leaning […]
Jessica Brillhart seeks truth in immersive media
[ad_1] Brillhart started out at Google’s creative filmmaking arm, crafting documentaries on topics like Instant Search, quantum computing and AI. But eventually, she was tapped to help the company’s early 360-degree video experiments, which led to other projects like her DeepDream VR experiment. And even though we’re several years into the rise of consumer VR, […]
Twitter’s experimental beta testing app is available today
[ad_1] You can apply for the company’s Prototype Program now, although we’ll be honest: the chances are slim that you’ll get in. Twitter only plans to invite roughly 2,000 English and Japanese speakers at this stage, and there’s only mention of supporting iOS so far. The one consolation is that those users can share their […]
NBC’s free news streaming service will fully launch in May
[ad_1] Some of the material you see will be original, but Oppenheim added that News Now will pull material from the “other corners” of NBCUniversal, including E News and sports. The service will be entering a competitive field. ABC News Live is the most obvious rival due to its relatively recent launch, but there’s also […]
‘Every Thing Every Time’ builds poetry from the smart city
[ad_1] It was an echo of some of the things happening in Austin at that moment, a kind of live poetic commentary on the commonplace. Every minute, the board refreshed; it continues to generate 1,440 poems each day. The installation, called “EVERY THING EVERY TIME,” is the work of Naho Matsuda, a German-Japanese artist and […]
Foursquare’s unusual pitch: The ethical data company
[ad_1] Over the last decade, Foursquare has moved beyond app check-ins and mayoral skirmishes to mostly serve other companies. It’s a platform for apps that change according to your location, whether you check in or not. The combination of its ability to ambiently pinpoint locations and having what Crowley calls its “base map of the […]
Series will give Snap’s founding story the ‘Social Network’ treatment
[ad_1] According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script depicts Spiegel as a hard partier in his college days who elbowed out one of the app’s original programmers, replacing her with a male counterpart. One part of the script even shows the Snap chief exchanging text messages with Taylor Swift. “Hamptons?” the singer asked in the […]