Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG. Wonder Dynamics, founded by VFX engineer Nikola Todorovic and actor Tye Sheridan, aims to use AI to make some of these processes more accessible for filmmakers with budgets …
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A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to "bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight", according to legal documents (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
Patrick McGee / Financial Times: A senior Apple engineer compared App Store’s defenses against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents — Revelation part of legal documents released by Epic Games ahead of antitrust trial
The Most Popular PWAs of 2021: An Intro to Progressive Web Apps
Have you ever wondered why web applications like Tinder, Starbucks, or Uber are so successful? Some of the most popular apps on the market are progressive web applications, otherwise known as PWAs. But, what exactly are PWAs, and why have they been all the rage? Let’s take a closer look at some of these apps …
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the site all but unusable for people inside the country. Research …
America’s sequencing boom may be throwing money at the wrong problem
Instead of trying to work through these issues at the national level, the sequencing contracts allow individual public health agencies to request the names and contact information of people who have tested positive for variants of concern. But that just pushes the same problems of data ownership down the chain. “Some states are very good …
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The invention of NFTs was meant to give artists more control over their work, but that dream didn't come true and only led to commercially exploitable hype (Anil Dash/The Atlantic)
Anil Dash / The Atlantic: The invention of NFTs was meant to give artists more control over their work, but that dream didn’t come true and only led to commercially exploitable hype — When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again. — CEO of Glitch
10 nouvelles technologies destinées à révolutionner le travail à domicile
La tendance au travail à distance est évidente depuis au moins une décennie. Et avec Covid accélérant cette tendance, plus de 40% des Américains travaille maintenant à la maison à plein temps. Dans un monde habitué à l’interaction sociale, ce changement soudain a conduit à de nombreux problèmes. Pas des moindres, des niveaux plus élevés …
Feds say man broke into public water system and shut down safety processes
Federal prosecutors have indicted a Kansas man for allegedly logging into a computer system at a public water system and tampering with the process for cleaning and disinfecting customers’ drinking water. An indictment filed in US District Court for the District of Kansas said Wyatt A. Travnichek, 22, of Ellsworth County, Kansas, was an employee …
In pursuit of pragmatic solutions to pervasive problems
The Alibaba Damo Academy is a unique hybrid research and development (R&D) facility. An academically-oriented independent science organization established in 2017 in Hangzhou, China, it is also an arms-length research affiliate of its founder, Chinese internet technology giant Alibaba. Damo’s project development pipelines are positioned around developing data-enabled technologies for fundamental business and social challenges, …