ViacomCBS is the latest company to partner with Recur to create digital experiences based on the company's characters, programming and franchises, and roll out what sounds like a digital bazaar to buy and resell them. NFTs are blockchain-created certificates of authenticity for a digital asset or piece of art, and are also the latest goldrush for NFT's for images, video clips, tweets, musical compositions, memes and memes.
Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Bosworth are playing around with prototype VR (or AR) tech and want to show it off, posting pictures of themselves wearing prototype headsets and linking the concepts to Facebook’s work on the metaverse. The headsets are in no way guaranteed to become actual retail products, but it is an interesting look at what's going on in Facebook's virtual reality lab.
TikTok released a transparency update about content that was removed from the platform between April 1 and June 30, 2021, removing 81,518,334 videos for violating its community guidelines or terms of service. This means that during that quarter, 8.1 billion+ videos were posted on TikTok, averaging out to about 90 million videos posted each day.
Apple is planning to launch a new iPhone and Apple Watch event on Monday, October 18. The event will be livestreamed from the company's Cupertino headquarters. The company is still in the midst of a two-year plan to upgrade all of its desktops and laptops to its in-house silicon.
Canva, the $40 billion software startup, has announced a video editing suite, which offers a scene-focused interface, allowing users to break down their video into easy-to-manage pieces, trim scenes, manage multiple audio tracks and use in-editor video previews.
Netflix’s hugely popular series Squid Game has become its biggest title ever at launch, reaching 111 million global accounts in its first 17 days on the service, the first Netflix series to surpass 100 million in the first 28 days on its service. The show has reached the no. 1 position on Netflix in 94 countries, and has held the top position for 21 days in the US.
Google Cloud has added tools to help users gain a better understanding of their environmental impact as part of the company's broader efforts to combat climate change. The Carbon Footprint feature shows the gross carbon emissions linked to the electricity consumption of someone's Cloud Platform use, displays emissions over time and can break down the data by project, product and region.
The Blind Man's Meal is among the most important artworks of Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period, but it also shares a canvas with a portrait of a naked woman in the shape of a heart. The painting had been concealed since 1903, but a combination of AI, stereoscopic imaging, and 3D printing has peeled back the cover.
Verizon Communications dipped its virtual toes back into the metaverse with a multicity augmented reality activation last month as Apple rolled out its latest smartphone models, seeking to showcase the faster speeds of its 5G network with a multimedia experience that offered a chance to win an iPhone 13 and leveraged spatial audio and gamified social media.
Adobe is releasing Acrobat Chrome and Edge extensions that allow you to access its PDF tools directly through your browser. The extensions are separate from Acrobat web, which has been updated to bring feature parity with its desktop client. The extension allows you to add comments to PDFs, download and print them.
FourFront is looking to define a new type of storytelling on the platform, aiming to popularize a network of individual actors performing scripted short-form serialized stories that feel native to TikTok, hoping that it can capitalize on the discoverability opened up by TikTok’s For You Page to steadily build new audiences.
