Encausse.net - Weekly #120

Bored NFT 🐵, Space Junk 🛰️, In Ear heart rate ❤️, Art sweatshirt Fool Camera 🎭, Ozempic ⚗️, Game extinction 🎮, Magenta Screen 🎥

Hello everyone,
This week, seeing a movie cost 24€ in France but you can almost sleep on your chair … way more than Netflix HD for a full month !

By the way, I changed my workflow switching from DropBox, LastPass, etc … to Proton as a secondary data brain toolset.

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Technologies

• First Medicine Developed by Generative AI Enters Human Trials

• Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”

• The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide

🧠 Articial Intelligence

• The Grammys, a US pop music award, has a new generative AI policy: ‘meaningful human contribution’ is required, so, as for synths and samples or indeed electric, you can use it as a tool.

• 5 learnings from classifying 500k customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML

• AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data that’s what I explained with Mechanical Turk replaced by AI for labeling and so training data.

• Nagarro : How Generative AI Reflects the Michael Jordan Moment in Business

• Synthesizing Artistic Cinemagraphs from Text very cool results !

• Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants. I dig around there is a lot of research paper on deepfake (and porn ! see reddit) and talking face (sad talker)

• Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool thats something to update my magic letter of santa !

• ML system design: 200 case studies to learn from seems very itneresting

🕹️ Alternate Realities

• Apple Vision headset delayed to 2026 weird that Apple show a prototype they can’t produce at scale. It will accelerate even more OLED display price cut.

• Nintendo may enter the metaverse, but not now. I think the same, 3D is not ready we are like in 2000 with the web. Lack of standard, etc … The metaverse is dead

• Google’s AR software leader is out over the company’s ‘unstable commitment and vision’

• MediaPipe: Enhancing Virtual Humans to be more realistic I really believe in MediaPipe for years.

• Aura Blockchain (LVMH) Consortium to support Christian Dior Couture

• Meta Introduces ‘Super Resolution’ Feature for Improved Quest Visuals

• Snap wants to look into your eyes to determines “gaze direction” to generate content when wearing a pair of AR glasses.

• AmazeVR Concerts review: Zara Larsson’s performance is a nice one to watch

🤖 Internet of Things

A wireless, open source, ESP32-based fingerprint sensor with optional NFC Very small, multiusage and cool ! A bit expensive …

• Meta wants to listen to your heart. The company is seeking to patent an in-ear device for “monitoring cardiac activity.” (via PatentDrop)

• BMW Motorrad presents ConnectedRide Smartglasses.

• New algorithm helps robots avoid collisions

Business

Ford wants its cars to ration their power (via PatentDrop)

• Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals. I worked on that topic few years ago. The UX/Social is part for the challenge.

• NFTs, avatars, and 3D gaming experiences: Sephora preps return of SEPHORiA: House of Beauty event

• Ozempic has fast become the most in-demand diabetes drug in the US

Inspiration

A sweater that fools facial recognition cameras, and more ways designers are getting creative with tech (kickstarter)

• National Geographic reportedly lays off its last staff writers

• New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly

• Why engineers should focus on writing so true ! so hard to do it …

• How the design of Disney parks affects our perspective

• Predictions for 2030 a lot of inspiration !

💡 Do It Yourself

• Getting Started with Vector Databases in Node.js

• Discussing the tastier side of desktop 3d printing an other very good idea to dig for a tech event :-)

• Reversing Mac Donald’s table beacon … very impressive ! So they do trilateration.

• LockHunter is a foolproof file unlocker can be usefull

• These fake nixie tubes have a bootup screen

• Magical Water Painting Pen, Dropshipping / Ads on Twitter but I like the idea, need to think about with Generative AI ? Doodle ? Magic ?

Medias (Audio & Video)

• Netflix invents new green-screen filming method using magenta light
  Interesting, they improve the edge delta, and fix back the color.

• 🇫🇷 MetaMedia (by FranceTV) excellent newsletter with now a paper on trending topics

• 🇫🇷 Sextoy stratup use ChatGPT to tell erotic story (follow the trend of Podcast ?)

• Drone Award 2023 very impressive !

🎧 Podcast

• 🇫🇷 GDIY : Nicolas de Tavernost - M6 - Bataille des ondes, fusion avortée etc …

🕹️ Gaming

• mystery-⚙️-matic daily murder to solve

• Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard very important with all the knowledge for the metaverse.

• 🇫🇷 Wolverine's Adamantium Claws

Stats & Quotes

Coffee price x2 last year.

• 93% loss on NFT Bored of Apes
  I told you for months … but journalist, podcaster … dont do due dilligence … and dont listen to people around them.

• 🇫🇷 200 000 km2 of storm North/East of France

• 87% of classic games are out of print. That’s a problem for gaming history.

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