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3D audio could be the next big podcast trend

The Verge

Today, iHeart Media announced that it’s investing in binaural audio , also known as 3D audio, which effectively places listeners in the room of a recording and makes them feel like it’s happening around them. The Verge ’s audio director Andrew Marino published a ton of 3D audio clips here if you want some examples.).

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SDXL 0.9 is here to change the game

Dataconomy

Prompt: aesthetic aliens walk among us in Las Vegas, scratchy found film photograph Left – SDXL Beta, Right – SDXL 0.9 ( Image Credit ) Everything you need to know about SDXL 0.9 over the beta version is the parameter count, which is the total of all the weights and biases in the neural network that the model is trained on.

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Fred Hutch scientist answers latest COVID-19 questions on vaccines, variants, and more

GeekWire

Jim Kublin , principal staff scientist with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, who also works with the COVID-19 Prevention Network. The process involves freezing samples at extremely cold temperatures and trapping the proteins in a protective film of non-crystalline ice.

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Data as a service: Top vendors offering data on tap

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations involved in city planning and designing transportation networks need to understand what residents are doing on city streets. With Streetlight Data, enterprises can get accurate measurements of people flow without having to build out their own sensor networks. Streetlight Data. Synthesis AI.

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3D printers are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Verge

Massive PPE shortages pushed DIY volunteers to get creative On March 20th, as the coronavirus situation in New York City hurtled toward full-blown crisis, Madiha Choksi was packing a taxi with two Flashforge 3D printers and as much filament as she could fit. The email was very long and really concerning,” Choksi tells The Verge.

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EMO lets your photos talk

Dataconomy

EMO takes a unique approach to animation, bypassing complex 3D models by directly converting audio into video frames. This means it doesn’t need intermediate 3D models or facial landmarks to generate animations. Backbone Network denoises animations, aided by Reference-Attention and Audio-Attention mechanisms.

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Adobe Firefly AI: See ethical AI in action

Dataconomy

AI image generation is used in a wide range of applications, including gaming, film and video production, and virtual reality. One of the most common methods used in AI image generation is known as generative adversarial networks (GANs), which involve two AI algorithms working together to generate images. How can an AI tool be ethical?

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