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Product Design & UX
Humane AI Pin review: not even close
For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There’s only one problem: it just doesn’t work.
mymind
mymind is like a visual search engine for your own brain. It’s one private place to put everything you care about online: bookmarks, inspiration, articles, notes, images & videos. Save it with a click, and find it again later with a simple search. It’s all organized for you with the help of artificial intelligence.
AI & Machine Learning
Udio builds AI tools to enable the next generation of music creators
It allows users to create music from simple text prompts by specifying topics, genres, and other descriptors which are then transformed into professional quality tracks.
As an example, listen to AI generated country music track ‘Wow..... I Didn't Know That’
Sample lyrics…
It turns out I really shouldn't eat that bat, And Twitter ain't a legitimate passtime?, Ohhh Wow!..., I didn't know that, You're telling me now for the first time. Well look 'ere, this is all news to me, What else do you think this could possibly be?, I once was blind but now I see I can only offer you my guaranteeeeeee, Ohhhh-woah-oh-oh-ohhh
Digital Trust
Instagram will automatically blur nudity in DMs to protect teens against sextortion and abuse
Instagram and other social media companies have faced growing criticism for not doing enough to protect young people.
Design
Raining on Rain Man: why and how autistic people can be creative
Autistic people don’t just like trains and maths – they can be creative too. Lylani Devorah asks fellow autistic creatives to dispel the myths of being autistic in the arts and discuss the challenges of being a logical thinker in an imaginative industry.
““We are either made a spectacle of situations with our art being ‘the result’ of our ‘debilitating conditions’, or are often talked about but never directly to.” – Libby Lilburn
Branding
RSPCA entirely transformed in first brand facelift in 50 years
Previously seen as “cold and authoritarian”, the new look bets big on bright, bold blues and portrayals of “happy, healthy animals”.
Illustration
Hannah Robinson takes inspiration from 1950s poster design and her dad’s toilet humour
“If I can giggle at my own work, I know I’m doing something right,” says the illustrator.