DECODE - September 7, 2023

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Why WebAR Is the New E-commerce (Mediapost)

How will WebAR (or web-based augmented reality) revolutionize online shopping, drive deeper engagement, and forge more meaningful relationships with customers? Code and Theory Senior Engineer Jonmar explains. “Imagine browsing through the vast wardrobe of your favorite celebrity,” he writes. “You spot a jacket, try it on in a virtual mirror, and it auto-sizes to fit you perfectly. With a single tap, it's purchased and on its way to your doorstep.” Sold.?See article here.

Keith Haring, Digital Artist? Rare 1980s Computer Drawings Resurface as NFTs at Christie's (designboom)

Did you know Keith Haring was a pioneer in digital art? We didn’t either. But thanks to Christie’s auction house and the Keith Haring Foundation, you can now own an NFT of digital artworks Haring created on an Amiga computer gifted to him by psychedelics-enthusiast Timothy Leary in the mid-80s. Pretty cool.?Check it out here

How Code and Theory’s Kirstyn Nimmo's Vision for Inclusion Means Making It a Part of ‘All of Our Strategies’ (Digiday)

In honor of the second edition of Code and Theory’s inclusive writing guide, Beyond Words, our Group Director of Inclusive Design and Marketing Strategy Kirstyn Nimmo shared her insights in an incisive interview with Digiday. “Inclusion should be a part of all of our strategies, all of our approaches to work,” she explains. “We need to build it into our timelines, into the ways we measure things — because we measure what we care about.”

History of AI: How Generative AI Grew From Early Research?

Here is a brief history of AI, starting in 1950, when British mathematician Alan Turing explored how machines could be taught to solve problems and make decisions in his landmark paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” It’s an interesting historical survey of how our current AI revolution was decades in the making and an essential read for anyone wondering how we got here.

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