Feature-length animation Away was created solely by film-maker Gints Zilbalodis. The writing, animation and soundtrack are all uncomplicated, and the storytelling is all the better for it, says Simon Ings Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833090-600-away-review-an-exquisite-animated-film-created-entirely-by-one-person/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Soccer Telecast Ruined When AI-Controlled Camera Mistakes Ref’s Bald Head For Ball
Futurism reports:
Fans of the soccer team Caledonian Thistle FC from Inverness, Scotland, experienced something hilarious this week when the robot camera operator — automatically trained to keep the lens trained on the soccer ball using AI — kept mistaking the linesman’s bald head for the ball, as IFL Science reports. The result: angry (or amused) soccer fans kept losing track of…
YouTube ‘Shorts’ Reportedly Launching This Year To Counter TikTok
According to The Information, the YouTube app will soon be home to a new “Shorts” format that will counter TikTok. 9to5Google reports: Shorts will be brief videos available in a new feed. On the creation front, these videos can use YouTube’s existing catalog of licensed music as a background soundtrack. YouTube reportedly plans to launch Shorts by the end of this…
Electric Buses on London’s 100 Route Will Play a Soundtrack To Alert Pedestrians To Their Presence
Matt Burgess, writing for Wired UK: Last year London’s 8,000 or so buses traveled 279 million miles and completed 2.23 billion journeys — more than half of all bus trips completed in England. But they’re not green enough. Yet. According to mayor Sadiq Khan, London has Europe’s biggest electric bus fleet with more than 200 currently in use. It’s a small…
Apple’s and Microsoft’s 2019 Holiday Ads: Naughty Or Nice?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Apple’s 2019 holiday ad The Surprise (YouTube, 11.8M views), the reveal at the end is that two young girls thought to have been frittering away time on their iPads have been making an unforgettable, heartwarming tribute to their recently passed grandmother that brings tears to their grandpa’s eyes. “This is a master class in comfy…