https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/clip-art/ (…) These models have so much creative power: just input some words and the system does its best to render them in its own uncanny, abstract style. It’s really fun and surprising to play with: I never really know what’s going to come out; it might be a trippy pseudo-realistic landscape or something more […]

*They know that their skeptics are upset about the issue. That’s shy they’d doing all this publicity about it. *To claim that you will grow more real forests as customers buy more real estate in your metaverse, that has almost a poetic quality. https://medium.com/sandbox-game/the-sandbox-gets-greener-reducing-nft-carbon-footprint-by-99-and-regrowing-trees-across-the-globe-edca3bdb0fa (…) Tree Growing: The Sandbox has renewed its partnership collaboration with […]

*Look at him gloating here. If you’ve ever read over-elaborate justifications for works of device-art, there’s something familiar about this. https://www.virgin.com/branson-family/richard-branson-blog/flying-to-space-onboard-virgin-galactic (…) I said a message to all children while I was in space: I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship looking […]

*If the Big Tech version of the Internet didn’t exist and was disrupted by blockchains.

*What could go wrong? https://youtu.be/FSEOgG1zq44

*That’s a long time for an open-source art project. https://discourse.processing.org/t/celebrating-processing-20th-anniversary/30797

*The popularity of these machine-restoration videos is remarkable — that’s almost a million views in a month. *I’m pretty sure that building an entirely new Italian coffee grinder by hand would have less appeal for viewers. The heritage angle seems to capture the imagination. *Also, it’s Italian technology.

“Nixie tubes” must be the most chic form of revived historical electronics. Once they were merely functional objects, but now they’re prized for their aesthetics. It’s interesting that a craftsman like this fellow can just decide to make nixie-tubes happen again, and indeed, his restoration business is ten years old now.

*Omniverse is a contemporary game engine, and this is NVIDIA boasting about its capacities.

*They wanted to make hugely profitable proprietary games and couldn’t do that, because making hit games is a lot harder than Jeff Bezos thought it was. *However, now “Lumberyard” is open-source. Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies (…) Major features of the Open 3D Engine include a new […]