Patrick Ganzer at Battelle Memorial Institute fast-forwarded biotech into the future by developing a brain implant that would turn someone’s life around.
Argodesign created a concept called the Square, an artificial window made from an LCD screen that acts a a view into the office: “When you raise the shade, you can see a coworker, or two, working right there next to you.” The idea isn’t very futuristic – it’s actually rooted in existing tech: “The frame hides four small cameras, which combine their images to create a 3D version of you rather than a flat Zoom frame.”
A full release of the API is expected in mid-May. The rare joint collaboration is an effort to build digital contact tracing solutions for the novel coronavirus.
Unable to open their doors to their communities, youth services librarians across the country have taken their programs online—from trivia nights to scavenger hunts and more.
The VAT on ebooks in the UK will be scrapped this week (instead of 12/1) after the Chancellor fast-tracked the plan, saying it would help readers and publishers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Whether you are staying home alone, with family, friends, roommates or furry friends, the NYPL hopes you’ll join us and recreate a book cover you love.
Instead of thinking we’re circus acrobats trying to juggle our lives while walking on a tightrope, think of yourself as a museum curator pulling together an exhibit. The most important decision: What is your exhibit about?
Interesting that interpreters at UN reported similar feelings of burnout, fogginess + alienation when translating proceedings via video. Scary to see that both therapists + patients also often feel fatigued, disaffected + uncomfortable after video therapy!
HT @neilperkin A potentially huge pivot from Shopify launching and app that allows you to buy directly from their ecosystem of brands & retailers – which could turn them into something more like Amazon rather than being a facilitator for each brand to have its own store (NB. they now have over 1 million merchants in 175 countries on the platform)
HT @nycmedialab Fortnite’s violence-free events incl a Travis Scott concert (>10M people attended). Now Epic launched Party Royale, a non-violent mode w vehicle-based challenges, soccer fields, outdoor dance clubs, + a “holographic movie theater.”
Universal Pictures’s move to make “Trolls World Tour” for digital rentals paid off, earning nearly $100M. Now they want to more online releases. Movie theater chain AMC announced a Boycott of Comcast-Universal movies.
Share a photo in celebration of your 2020 graduate, or your own graduation photo! Use #ohtheplaces2020 and tag 3 friends. For each post, my company, @randomhousekids and @DrSeuss will donate 1 book to classroom libraries via @FirstBook#teamPRH
RT @diversebooks Applications for our Emergency Fund for Diverse Creatives are still open! The fund will provide financial aid to diverse authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals in #kidlit who have lost income during the pandemic.
Tribeca, Cannes, Sundance, Venice, and other film festivals partner to stream free global festival on YouTube starting 5/29 to benefit WHO and local COVID response
Women’s Media Group is proud to announce a free virtual event 5/15 noon EST for all – Learn how to be a better presenter/speaker with Tricia Brouk and The Art of the Big Talk. #wmg#publicspeaking#publicspeakingskills
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