What mimes can teach us about visual perception
Mimes "make us feel like we’re aware of an object just by seeming to interact with it." When we watch a mime seemingly pull rope, climb steps, or try to escape that infernal box, we don't struggle to recognize the implied objects. Rather.....»»
Coretronic BLU shipments down in August
Coretronic has disclosed it shipped 2.689 million LED backlight units (BLUs) and about 118,000 projectors and visual solution devices in August, the former decreasing 4.5% sequentially and 50% on year and the latter slipping 23% sequentially but soar.....»»
The end of Ethereum mining could be a bonanza for GPU shoppers
Graphics card prices have been dropping all year—and could go even lower. While these GPUs were liquidated following 2018 flooding in China, they provide a good visual for the flood of GPUs hitting secondhand markets these days. (cre.....»»
Glasgow School of Art presents 10 postgraduate design projects
Dezeen School Shows: an app that teaches human anatomy by visualising organs as baked goods and a musical elephant that helps teach children new languages are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Glasgow School of Art. Read more.....»»
From the London subway strike to the Black Death: What past crises can teach us about the future of work
By analyzing how leaders have reacted to past crises, a new University at Buffalo School of Management study reveals what the workplace of the future might look like......»»
New study finds racial and ethnic differences in perception and use of "red flag" laws
New research from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program finds racial and ethnic differences in how extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) are perceived and used in California. The study, published in Preventive Medicine, found Black Calif.....»»
Relevant, Real-Time CX: Consumer Perception vs. Brand Reality
What does it take to power a truly real-time customer experience? More than just data collection. Let's start there. Continue reading........»»
Why this company thinks music videos (and cowboy hats) can teach online security
In January 2021, Rachel Tobac came up with a silly take on a serious topic: A sea shanty-like video in which she sang a tale about the importance of password security and multi-factor authentication. It came complete with a hauntingly harmonized chor.....»»
Aliens, upgrades, and Dolly Parton: behind The Orville’s VFX
Creating the visual effects for The Orville season 3 demanded a lot of VFX studios, from alien worlds and ship upgrades to new creatures and ... Dolly Parton?.....»»
Apple has never been against advertising -- it"s against invasive data collection
There's the perception that Apple as a company has a hard-line stance against advertising, and complaints have sprung up that its ad ventures are hypocritical. However, the truth is more complicated than that.Apple privacyThe Cupertino tech giant has.....»»
Vines, gore, and rifts galore: Behind Stranger Things’ season 4 VFX
Creepy vines, severed limbs, and the destruction of Hawkins were just a few of the visual effects elements Scanline VFX brought to Stranger Things season 4......»»
CircleCI Visual Configuration Editor allows teams to visualize and streamline complex workflows
CircleCI has unveiled the CircleCI Visual Configuration Editor, an all-in-one open source project for configuration editing, including creating component definitions and usages. CircleCI’s open source Visual Configuration Editor is a drag-and-drop.....»»
Review: We Are OFK is stylish, subversive TV disguised as an indie game
A modern, thoughtful update to the visual novel concept for disaffected Gen Z. Enlarge / The stylish leads of We Are OFK—and yes, that includes the cartoony cat, though I'll leave its involvement in the series vague for now. (credit:.....»»
The comics, colors, and chemicals behind Ms. Marvel’s VFX
The visual effects that helped bring the Marvel hero Ms. Marvel to Disney+ found inspiration in a variety of unexpected places......»»
TikTok to teach influencers about US mid-term election rules
The platform says it is to do more to ensure influencers understand that it prohibits paid political ads......»»
Scientists are turning data into sound to listen to the whispers of the universe (and more)
We often think of astronomy as a visual science with beautiful images of the universe. However, astronomers use a wide range of analysis tools beyond images to understand nature at a deeper level......»»
Someone is selling prototype Nvidia GTX 2080 cards
Redditor ascendance22 (via Tom's Hardware) posted details about their purchased GTX 2080, which looks and performs almost identically to the RTX-branded version. The big visual difference is the lack of the 2080 logo and the "GEFORCE GTX" printed on.....»»
First synthetic embryos: The scientific breakthrough raises serious ethical questions
Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can't make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have called into question the basics of what we teach children about the birds and the bees, and created a mous.....»»
Old age isn"t a modern phenomenon: Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too
Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like in the face of this terrifying disease that killed.....»»
Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others, and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years to describe how your eye distinguishes one.....»»
Molecules that promote plant-to-plant communications below ground
Plants have evolved elaborate mechanisms for detecting neighboring plants, which typically involve the perception of "cues'" inadvertently produced by their neighbors. Strigolactones are hormonal signaling molecules that are also exuded into the rhiz.....»»