Our Work Here is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy, a new free ebook from the UK’s NESTA. PDF only: no bot can yet convert it to .mobi format for Kindle ebook readers. Which is kind of ironic. Or hopeful, depending on your point of view.
Archive for June, 2014
For the chop
“Algorithm automatically cuts the boring bits out of videos”. Godzilla now a twelve minute short…
“According to the fashion and the time”
24 Jun 2014 at 14:56
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Techie
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Coole job in ye Midlands: Digital Innovation Programme Manager, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford–upon-Avon.
Zeppelin relaunched
An excellent summary tribute article on Led Zeppelin (fronted by Robert Plant, from West Bromwich) to celebrate that the albums… “Led Zeppelin,” “Led Zeppelin II” and “Led Zeppelin III” have recently been given deluxe reissues by Atlantic Records
The New Cultural Data Revolution
12 Jun 2014 at 10:14
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Mapping, Techie
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A one-day free event in Birmingham on “The New Cultural Data Revolution“, on Big Data and cultural institutions and groups. Loadsatickets currently available. [Hat-tip: Chris Unitt]
“Use the Universal Translator, Spock…”
07 Jun 2014 at 10:48
David Haden
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Microsoft is set to bring real-time audio translation to its audio/video chat application, Skype, by the end of 2014.
Survey off
Superb design, instantly ruined by a stupid survey pop-up that loads within milliseconds of you landing on the page. The sooner we have pop-up blockers that can reliably blank all this “oh, oh, take our survey!” and “take a look at another article, before you’ve finished reading this one!” cruft on magazine and newspaper websites, […]