What we have are innumerable different collections of information, each of them specific to a particular application. Technology is full of narratives, but one of the loudest and most persistent concerns artificial intelligence and something called “data.” AI is the future, we are told, and it’s all about data — Read more…
Atari pulled the plug on the release of Marble Madness II almost exactly 31 years ago after the follow up to their hit game failed to perform well in location tests. For decades the only way to play this now sought after rarity has been on one of a handful Read more…
The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2’s ability to draw/paint/imagine just about anything but OpenAI isn’t the only one working on something like that. Google Research has rushed to publicize a similar model it’s been working on Read more…
Vangelis passed away recently. He yielded beautiful electronic music which catered well to images and cinema. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3zFoNUcbyY_VqRnX4nMGDiJZ0VX7kqg4&feature=share Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου [eˈvaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsi.u]; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis (/væŋˈɡɛlɪs/ vang-GHEL-iss; Greek: Βαγγέλης [vaɲˈɟelis]), was a Greek musician, composer, songwriter and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.[1] He was best known for Read more…
As part of its landmark campaign for its 75th anniversary celebrations, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is “opening up a large portion of its archives, making the first 50 years of its published records — more than 117,500 documents dating from 1951 to 2000 — accessible to the public Read more…
Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, has died aged 79. The Guardian reports: Born Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou in 1943, Vangelis won an Oscar for his 1981 Chariots of Fire soundtrack. lepoo: From his early Read more…
The site GeekyTyrant is excited about Amazon’s upcoming eight-episode series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — premiering September 2 and set in Middle-earth’s “Second Age,” thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.) With the film being set in Read more…