Ideas and News from the Week of February 26 2024

Welcome to the elastic ideas newscast. Each week we share the most interesting stories centering on AI, Metaverse, Spatial Computing, XR, Innovation and Cultural Dynamics. Feel free to suggest your favorites with a note to me

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Newscast

From TechCrunch

Umpires are supposed to just call balls and strikes, but some of them also have their own biases. Google’s Gemini is an example of how this plays out in? AI

From NFT Now

Yuga Labs - the folks behind Bored Apes - sparked a revolution in the NFT world

From Axios

AI is worming its way into every aspect of our lives, and for those in education there’s a need to understand how that balances against existing curricula

From Forbes

You may not want to buy NFTs now, but? just you wait until retail figures out how to create individual identities for all of your clothes .

From RTFKT

The brilliant folks at RTFKT are again making waves. Check out the latest oroejct

Netcast

From Fast Company

Broadcast news and print news are out. People want to be told things. And the intense intimacy of someone telling you things from your phone as if they are telling you personally is driving TikTok’s growth as a news source. Here’s what happens if you only received news from TikTok for a week

From Engadget

A new way to interact with your devices, all adjacent to the palm of your hand

From Mail Online

Can you imagine standing next to the goal when a Messi ball is headed to you?

From The Verge

We are getting closer to the form that will create the market .

Noisecast

From The Quietus

Shabaka Hutchings is at the center of the UK Jazz Scene. His new album takes him away from the louder music of previous recordings to intense records of deep experience

From Grace Kelly

Transcontinental Jazz Musician Grace Kelly released her collection of movie music and you need to play this next time you are in a car chase or walking slowly through a bank

From A Small Light

National Geographic and Disney+ released a brilliant mini-series about A Small Light , the story of Miep Giles and how she and a small group of courageous folks hid the family of Anne Frank during World War 2. The soundtrack includes Kamasi Washington, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten and more. The album is a vibe all it’s own

From Earthgang

Atlanta’s Earthgang creates a sumptuous futuristic album that will remind you of Curtis Mayfield and Janelle Monae and the future of R&B.

Smart Cast

From The Information

AI will become a key tool for how you understand the context of your world and how you impart context onto the world. There’s a layer of data on the world around us, AI will let us access it

From Engineers Codex

Meta is more than where you head for birthday thanks, it’s blazing a path towards the future of LLM functionality

From TechCrunch

Paris is becoming the center of the AI world,? with Mistral as the key to the revolution

From 80.lv

Google’s Gemini can take your sketches and create full, working, 2D platform games. Make your Legend of Zelda dreams come true!

Randomcast

From Stack Overflow

It’s not that we’re living in a simulation, it’s that some of the things we can do with computers are things that don’t make sense in the physical world

From The Verge

Spies can use your chip-bag and a laser to listen to the conversations you have in your room from across the street. Lenovo makes reading your laptop from across a room much easier

From Engadget

There’s a particular benchmark for every technology when you’re able to get it to run Doom. Congratsto the Husqvarna Automower NERA for entering this elusive club

From Good Morning America

This is an incredible case study in how to not launch a potentially unpopular idea