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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    The NASA countdown begins.

    Providing all goes to plan, NASA’s Artemis II mission will launch later today and carry astronauts around the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The launch window is targeted for 6:24PM ET, with the onsite countdown officially underway.

    Art schools are being torn apart by AI

    Institutions are teaching creatives to utilize AI, even if some students and faculty hate the technology.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Disney’s new Olaf robot had a meltdown.

    It didn’t take long for the latest Disney Imagineering innovation to freeze up (hah) and fall backwards in front of a small crowd of children at Disneyland Paris. Even his magnetically attached carrot nose decided to “Let It Go.”

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Synthesizing some NES nostalgia.

    The latest project from Swedish designer Love Hultén is the NES-SY2.0 — a bespoke synthesizer that includes an NES Poly chiptune synth, KeyStep and Flamma FS22 interfaces, and a custom-made MIDI visualizer. And yes, Hultén says the system supports NES game cartridges!

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Google and Samsung are tapping into Quick Share.

    Android Authority has found references to an expanded AirDrop-like system in Android 17 beta and Canary builds called “Tap to share” that uses NFC to help transfer files between phones brought close together. As it sits at the OS level, the feature could be coming to all Android devices.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Get ready for “Tech Neck” beauty products.

    The phrase is being used to describe the horizontal lines or wrinkles that naturally develop across your neck, and may be exacerbated by constantly looking down at your phone. It sounds like yet another way to sell cosmetic treatments to people by making them feel bad about themselves.