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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: YouTube TV expands multiview beyond sports — but you still can’t customize it. “Being able to watch multiple things on TV at the same time is obviously a huge convenience for sports fanatics. So it makes sense that YouTube TV focused exclusively on sports when launching its multiview feature. It’s been several months since then, and today, the company says it’s (slowly) expanding multiview to also feature news, business, and weather programming. That’s the good news.”
USEFUL STUFF
PC World: Edit video like a pro: Absolutely free tools and resources. “In addition to introducing you to some of the best free video editing options, we’ll point you to websites where you can download free video clips, sound effects, music, and more to use in your films.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Tubefilter: In “state of the creator economy” memo, MrBeast’s manager warns creators about TikTok investments. “Reed Duchscher sees a bright future for U.S.-based creators — but he also thinks they should be wary about working with TikTok. Duchscher, who is the CEO of management firm Night, talked about CPMs, TikTok bans, and other hot-button issues in a ‘state of the creator economy’ memo.”
ABC News: Italy wants to put Italians in top museum jobs. The chief of Milan’s Brera hopes to leave his mark. “The British-Canadian director of Milan’s Brera Gallery was hired in 2015 after the Italian government launched reforms that for the first time brought in foreign museum directors. His eight-year tenure is ending as Premier Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing administration seeks to again reserve top cultural jobs for Italians.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
NPR: He lost $340,000 to a crypto scam. Such cases are on the rise. “Naum Lantsman was sure his cryptocurrency investments were making money. Every time he’d log on to the trading platform he was using, it looked like he was reaping windfall profits. But Lantsman, in fact, was one of a growing number of people who’ve fallen victim to cryptocurrency scams.”
Slate: The Delicate Race to Archive the Work of Murdered Journalists—Before It Disappears. “Many of the murdered journalists are not the hard-hitting investigative reporters you might have in mind, juggling whistleblowers and carefully pulling together sweeping exposés of corruption. Those reporters are targeted too, often via sophisticated methods like the spyware Pegasus—but in my research, I’ve found that most often the journalists who are murdered are those who worked locally and precariously: reporters who founded their own media outlets—blogs, websites, and Facebook pages—in which they posted about daily life in their towns.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New York Times: How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?. “To assess the effectiveness of current A.I.-detection technology, The New York Times tested five new services using more than 100 synthetic images and real photos. The results show that the services are advancing rapidly, but at times fall short.”
University of Sheffield: Honeybees make rapid, accurate decisions and could inspire future of AI, study suggests . “New research revealing how honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions, which could help to design more efficient robots and autonomous machines, has been published by scientists at the University of Sheffield.”
University of Southern California: Putting the Rational Thinking Skills of Language Models to the Test. “Mayank Kejriwal, lead researcher at the University of Southern California Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI), said this behavior from conversational AI chatbots is even more concerning in the context of the big push in the tech world to integrate them into real world applications.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi Turns Truck into Giant Dot Matrix Printer. “The printing process works by dropping splotches of water onto the road while the truck is driven. The water is dropped carefully to shape letters and form custom messages. The system is mounted to the back of the truck and controlled from inside the cabin using a web interface. As a message is parsed, a series of tubes direct water into position and activate precisely to create shapes much like a dot matrix printer.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 1, 2023 at 12:26AM
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