SUNDAY NEWS

 

Pesquisa feita por António Câmara e Explora Community

 

Sunday News 235 January  22nd, 2023 Click to see in browser Metaverse may be $800 billion market, next tech platform Disney’s new CEO Bob Iger and crypto L’Oréal is among new investors in Metaverse Developer Digital Village LEGO is hiring staff for its new ‘metaverse experiences’ Seoul government opens city’s metaverse project to public Virtual cringe: The 10 lamest brand stunts in the MetaverseMetaverse frenzy is re-emerging after the Generative AI interlude. To understand both, from a pop culture point of view, there are lists of recommended  films.  They show  AI, AR and VR’s, Metaverse’s foundational technologies,  mostly dystopian uses. Some of them provide previews of the Metaverse itself.There are also a wealth of informative readings. I recommend looking at  old  writings of two visionary pioneers: IJ Good’s “Speculations concerning the first ultra-intelligent machine”; and Warren Robinett’s “Synthetic experiences: A proposed taxonomy”. They are  also linked to pop culture movies: IJ Good, a former Alan Turing assistant (and my professor at Virginia Tech), was featured on The Imitation Game and advised Stanley Kubrik in “2001 Space Odyssey”; and Warren Robinett, who greatly helped my VR research group at NOVA, has plenty of air time on Steven Spielberg’s  Ready Player One. Sunday News is a selection of links posted daily by the  Explora community.  Newcomers can check previous Sunday News editions here. If you are a new reader, you may catch up by reading Sunday News’ First, Second, Third Year and Fourth Year Highlights. Antonio Camara Education How mathematics stopped being defined by reality — and started to invent new ones ChatGPT and VR – Changing the way we learn soft skills Frontiers for young minds. “Science for kids, edited by kids.” Visual Thinking: The hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions How games can make behavioral science better. Examples of gamification in science: Which English?; Are you a super-listener?; Glyph; and Moral Machine AI policy of a Wharton professor. Via @dbkhan Health A hotter Planet takes another toll on human health Sports How Messi fans organized to break an Instagram world record Inês Bettencourt on ESPN Sports Center Plays of the Day (any sport anywhere in the globe) Mobility Autostadt- VW car towers China’s new hyperloop train completes first test runs successfully Airbus is testing out autonomous flying tech in some of its planes Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight Most popular car in Europs vs. most popular car in US Cities, Nature, and Clean Tech Transgenic ants shed light on insects’ sense of smell Native Lands  around the World, US Native Lands and Canada Native Lands sites are most interesting from cultural and community tech development standpoints John Deere vows to open up its tractor tech, but right-to-repair backers have doubts This startup uses microbial fuel cells to clean up wastewater Developing new companies The big idea: what’s the secret of innovation? Inside the structure of Open Ai’s looming new investment from Microsoft and VCs How Barnes & Noble transformed its brand from corporate bully to lovable neighborhood bookstore Secretary jobs in the Age of AI, by Noah Smith An updated list of unicorns, by CB Insights AR/VR/AI/IoT/Quantum Computing/Metaverse/Bio Nreal achieves mass production of 100.000 AR glasses A short note on large language models Google’s Muse model could be the next big thing for generative AI New generative AI tool instantly builds presentation decks and PowerPoints Generative AI in architecture– a thread Developing low-cost robots for agriculture Robot gets the sense of smell using locust antennae Hunting for the best bioscience software tool? Check this database Far out The elevan laws of showrunning Animated chart: The rise and fall of music sales, by format (1973-2021) Little Planet Factory Google could make the Airtag alternative we really want Scientists are getting eerily good at using WiFi to ‘see’ people through walls in detail The ringtone came from this song. At the time, Nokia was ten times more valuable than Apple. “It would be another 7 years before the iPhone was released” @JonErlichman Samsung introduced a new mobile phone screen concept at CES 2023 What is like to be a bat? The Good Life. “Lessons from the World’s longest scientific study of happiness”