As it often happens with AI-generated art, there’s confusion surrounding whether attribution should be handed to the person who generated the AI’s prompt, the AI itself, the AI’s creators, or the artwork the machine learning model “borrowed” from. In the case of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition on display…
DC Universe and Reebok have partnered up to create a limited series of shoes based on some iconic supers—Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are all represented, as well as some truly villainous baddies—Lex Luthor, the Joker, and Harley Quinn. The shoes are genuinely very cute, and we’ve got a ton of images for you to…
It’s now much simpler to participate in a Microsoft Teams meeting if you have hearing issues. Microsoft has introduced a sign language view that lets people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as their interpreters, prioritize each other during meetings. Those video feeds will remain in consistent locations, at sizes large enough for sign language to be visible. You’ll see as many as two other signers throughout a meeting, and video will remain large even when slides or screen shares are visible.
The view also makes preferences “sticky” thanks to a new accessibility settings pane, Microsoft says. You won’t have to worry about pinning interpreters or enabling captions every time a Teams call begins. You can jump directly into a meeting instead of tweaking options.
The sign language view and accessibility pane are currently available only through a Public Preview available on a user-by-user basis. They’ll roll out to all commercial and government customers in the “coming weeks,” Microsoft says. It could take a while before everyone can use the functionality. Still, this promises to greatly simplify meetings for anyone with limited hearing — and might make Teams more viable if alternatives like Zoom (which only recently added support for interpreters) aren’t up to the task.
Greene said a key member of the House Republican leadership team told her he would support an investigation.
Monster High will return. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on the finales of Chucky and Stargirl, and what’s next on Kung Fu and The Winchesters. Plus, more details about the return of Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers!
Twitter may not be restoring Blue verification for a couple of weeks, but it hopes to be more careful when the feature comes back. The social network has updated its FAQ site to warn that new accounts will have to wait 90 days before they can subscribe to Blue. The company also says it reserves the right to demand waiting periods “at our discretion without notice.”
The new policy comes shortly after Twitter blocked new accounts from joining Blue. Within two days of Twitter adopting its pay-to-verify system, the social media service grappled with a flood of impersonators and trolls using their new checkmarks to confuse users. The firm tried using a secondary “official” checkmark for public figures and organizations, but new Twitter owner scrapped the system mere hours after it launched.
Musk added that a “new release” would discourage fraudsters by dropping the Blue checkmark if they change their name — they wouldn’t get it back until Twitter confirmed that the new handle honored the Terms of Service. There isn’t yet any official policy to this effect, however.
There’s plenty of pressure for revised policies like these. Senator Ed Markey has grilled Elon Musk over the ease of creating fake accounts under the new verification system, and suggested that Congress might intervene if the entrepreneur doesn’t fix Twitter and his other brands. Twitter is also dealing with internal chaos as employees resign en masse in response to Musk’s demands for “long hours” from “hardcore” staff.
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YouTube has created own signature launch sound and slick animation just like Netflix’s “Tudum” and detailed exactly how it made it in a new blog post. The mini-fanfare has already appeared in the YouTube app on TVs, playing each time you start the app.
The platform went into a lot of detail about how it built the sound in partnership with Antfood, a “sonic branding” studio. It aimed to make something “human,” “connected,” “expressive” and “story-driven,” by marrying together a variety of sounds. You can hear it for yourself below:
In fact, each part of the mix has its own name, like “deep dive,” “upward flourish,” “melodic signature,” “tactile motion” and “sentimental harmony.” A lot of thought (and no doubt, money) went into all of this. For instance, YouTube said that “sentimental harmony” is a major 7th chord that “represents the way YouTube allows you to explore the things you really love.”
So that’s all well and fine, but how does the three-second piece sound? Putting on my tiny music critic hat, it’s certainly pleasant and harmonious, though not nearly as memorable as “Tudum.” The accompanying animation is equally well executed but also a bit boring. It’s early days, though, so it could grow on me.
YouTube didn’t come up with a catchy name for it like Netflix did, calling it simply the “YouTube sound,” and I can’t think of any onomatopoeia that would do it justice. In any case, YouTube said that the sound and animation will appear “in more places over the next few weeks and months.”
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