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Pocket Casts just made its web player free and open to all, which makes it an excellent choice for when you want to share titles and...

Pocket Casts just made its web player free and open to all, which makes it an excellent choice for when you want to share titles and episodes with others. blog.pocketcasts.com/2025/03/11/webplayer/

Sora is interesting but not incredibly useful. The current generation of AI is fairly undirectable. You’ll get something interesting from...

Sora is interesting but not incredibly useful. The current generation of AI is fairly undirectable. You’ll get something interesting from an initial prompt, but when you want to iterate it in a particular direction, it’s difficult to do. Most of the fear of AI video comes from people who've never used it. It's very cool, […]

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The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect

It became clear soon after launch that #Kinect was a terrible device for gaming but a brilliant device for creative technology. theguardian.com/games/…

Artists vs. (and for) AI

A Guardian article offers different opinions of artists on AI: Chris Foss sees it as a tool to tackle artistic challenges, whereas others consider legal action claiming that AI copies theirs styles. However, examples in the article show that AI-generated art doesn't closely match the original works, suggesting the debate over AI's role in art is complex and far from settled.

Is Firefly 2 a first-class image generation model?

Adobe just released the second version of Firefly, its image generation model. While models such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney are the market leaders in terms of result quality, the uncertainty (warranted or otherwise) about the datasets they’ve used in their training means that it’s important to have strong rivals that are trained on licensed […]

Be weird to diversify Midjourney images

Generate more diverse and visually interesting images with Midjourney’s ‘weird’ parameter. By breaking away from typical prompts, you'll be able to generate more unique and interesting results.

How popular are Roblox branded experiences?

This year lots of brands launched experiences on Roblox; some to catch the ‘metaverse’ hype, some for experimentation, and some with a genuine desire to engage a young audience in playful social spaces. Roblox publicly records the number or visits to each experience, which can give you some idea of popularity, although it doesn’t list […]

A conversation with ChatGPT

This week OpenAI introduced a new conversational text generator called ChatGPT. Here is a direct transcript of a conversation I had with ChatGPT where I asked it to explain itself. Explain ChatGPT in a single sentence ChatGPT is a large language model that was trained using a combination of text-based conversations and task-oriented dialogue data […]

Neural Radiance Fields forever

A few weeks ago, Google introduced Immersive View for Maps, a high-quality 3D flythrough of popular spots, which shows day / night and real-time weather conditions. It’s pretty cool. But even cooler is the technology behind it. NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) is a new approach to photogrammetry. Here’s an example of a NeRF scene: Traditional photogrammetry […]

Gucci Goes Digital

Gucci goes digital

Gucci just launched its first digital-only sneaker, for you to wear in your social media photos, and on your VR Chat and Roblox avatars. It’s an early signal of a potential generational shift.

The QR Code Comeback

A look at the new Shoploop app

Improve Your Home With AR

The ARCore Depth API

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