Tag: media platforms

• Pixy drone hands-on: A flying robot photographer for Snapchat users

  July 31, 2022

  You don’t need to pilot the Pixy. In fact, you couldn’t if you wanted to. Rather, it flies by itself, performing pre-programmed patterns that put the focus on you, the… more ›

• A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here’s What Happened Instead

  July 31, 2022

  Samerson Orias was working as a line cook last year in the rural Philippines when his friend told him he could make way more money playing a new video game.… more ›

• How Lifelogging is Transforming the Way We Remember, Track Our Lives

  July 28, 2022

  Once explored by only an elite few, the practice of lifelogging refers, quite literally, to logging or registering your daily life with technical tools and services. When lifelogging first emerged… more ›

• again with the post digital

  July 25, 2022

  https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2011/11/i-first-talked-about-post-digital-at-an-event-called-thinking-digital-in-2009-in-gateshead-looking-back-thats-probably-wh.html more ›

• How to Spot Trends with AI (Part II)

  July 25, 2022

  After Sarah DaVanzo and I leveraged NWO.ai’s invaluable AI to score and re-rank the Meta Trends, we were left stuck with one finding: Both the global and U.S. AI data-driven ranks were significantly different from… more ›

• How Apple is empowering people with their health information

  July 25, 2022

  Today Apple shared a new report that offers a snapshot of the ways Apple products are empowering people to be at the center of their health, and acting as an… more ›

• Inside the global gig economy of werewolf erotica

  July 25, 2022

  Platforms are hiring gig workers around the world to write steamy romance novels for English-speaking readers. The emerging web novel industry spans the globe, taking a business model from Asia,… more ›

• The Great Fiction of AIThe strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fictionTwo Roads Diverged in a Tunnel, and I—I Printed Out a Semi-automated NovelUncanny NovelistsHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Author

  July 22, 2022

  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida,… more ›

• Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball

  July 20, 2022

  If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Let’s talk about the metaverse. https://www.theverge.com/23269170/what-is-the-metaverse-matthew-ball-interview-decoder-podcast more ›

• Deep catalog

  July 18, 2022

  Maybe you spell out the prompt on your way home, inspired by the shape of tonight’s traffic more ›