AI won an art contest, and artists are furious
Jason M. Allen was almost too nervous to enter his first art competition. Now, his award-winning image is sparking controversy about whether art can be generated by a computer, and what, exactly, it means to be an artist......»»
Review: Luxonis Oak-D AI Camera with Computer Vision and Image Depth
When Microsoft released the Kinect, the first widely available depth camera, artists and makers quickly flocked to it, discovering how to access the camera’s depth data and ability to capture human motion. The result was a slew of new projects.....»»
The Roblox final fantasy
Hello friends, and welcome to Week in Review. Last week, I talked a bit about NFTs and their impact on artists. If you’re inundated with NFT talk just take one quick look at this story I wrote this week about the $69 million sale of Beeple̵.....»»
Beeple"s NFT digital art nets £50m at Christie"s auction
The digital-only artist is now among the top three most valuable living artists......»»
Framed by gender: Women artists erased from peak prices, sales at art auctions
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. However, many women artists—and the stories their works tell—comprise less than 4 per cent of total art sold at auction and fail to attract high selling prices compared to male artists......»»
Furious AI Researcher Creates Site Shaming Non-Reproducible Machine Learning Papers
The Next Web tells the story of an AI researcher who discovered the results of a machine learning research paper couldn't be reproduced. But then they'd heard similar stories from Reddit's Machine Learning forum: "Easier to compile a list of reprodu.....»»
Square To Buy Jay-Z"s Music Service Tidal
Square has agreed to buy a majority stake in Tidal, the streaming music service led by rapper Jay-Z, as part of an effort to expand the company's suite of financial tools to musicians and emerging artists. From a report: Square will pay $297 million.....»»
Grand Finale of NTT DATA Open Innovation Contest
NTT DATA Corporation conducted the Grand Finale of NTT DATA Open Innovation Contest 11 on January 29, 2021. The Open Innovation Contest provides a platform for start-ups to build and scale their solution in collaboration with our clients and various.....»»
Independent music squashed out of streaming playlists and revenue
Bands and artists on independent record labels get less than their fair share of access to the most popular playlists on streaming platforms such as Spotify—argues a new paper from the University of East Anglia......»»
Meet this year’s winners of the Dance Your PhD contest
This year's contest also featured a special award for best COVID-19-related dance. Finnish researcher Jakub Kubecka won this year's Dance Your PhD contest with a rap-based dance inspired by his work on the physics of atmospheric molecular.....»»
Japanese billionaire invites 8 people to join SpaceX mission around the Moon
Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa, who first announced his intention in 2018 to take a group of artists with him on a six-day trip around the Moon, said Tuesday that he's inviting the public to apply to fill eight open seats on the mission now sl.....»»
NFT blockchain drives surge in digital art auctions
NFT is a way for artists to sell digital art ownership without giving up the original file itself......»»
Japan Billionaire Seeks "Crew" For Moon Trip
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Wednesday launched a search for eight people to join him as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon with Elon Musk's SpaceX. He had originally planned to invite artists for the weeklong voyage slat.....»»
SoundCloud adjusts revenue model for indie artists
We’ve known for a long time that music streaming royalties are fundamentally broken. As revenue has shifted away from sales of physical music, it’s become increasingly difficult for many independent artists to make a living off recorded music. Bu.....»»
What Would You Do With An Industrial AI Platform?
Get ready to start thinking on a whole different level. With the E-RT3, you could be doing automation with some of the toughest and most robust hardware in the world. In this contest, Make: Community along with Yokogawa challenge you to come up with.....»»
Spotify announces beta launch of audience development tool for artists, self-serve ‘Marquee’ ads
As part of its news announced at its live event today, Spotify announced a set of new creator tools and resources, including the expansion of Marquee, the launch of a tool called “Discovery Mode” into beta testing, the opening of the Canv.....»»
Chrome OS overtakes Macs for second place OS market share for the first time
According to numbers from market research firm IDC, Chrome OS overtook macOS for the first time in 2020 in user install base. For decades, Windows has had a stranglehold on the PC market, and that has not changed. The contest has historically been be.....»»
General Mills Foodservice Awards $100,000 to Independent Restaurants in 6th Annual Neighborhood to Nation Recipe Contest
Twenty winners will receive $5,000, robust marketing support and a chance to win an additional $5,000 for a local food bank charity. MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–General Mills Foodservice announces the winners in its 2020 Neighborhood to N.....»»
Epic"s MetaHuman lets game artists craft realistic human faces using a web browser
When it's not busy fighting Apple in court for App Store terms and operating a walled garden, or giving away 750 million free copies of games through the Epic Store, the company led by Tim Sweeney develops some of the best 3D creation tools in the in.....»»
Blur drummer David Rowntree: "Music streaming hits songwriters and artists"
David Rowntree warned if streaming is not reformed it could be "terminal" for the music industry......»»
SoundCloud To Let Fans Pay Artists Directly
According to Billboard, SoundCloud is preparing to introduce a new payment system that would allow fans to pay artists directly. From the report: The move would make SoundCloud the first major music streaming service to embrace a direct payment model.....»»