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Five Interesting Current Developments in AI

Technology has come a long way since developers created the first computer algorithm. You may have once dreamed of the day your car could drive itself or robots could accurately diagnose diseases, but those ideas are starting to become a reality. Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving humans more ways to stay safe, healthy and happy than ever before.

These advances are still relatively new, and different ways of using AI are still coming about. Living in the age of technology is about to get a lot more exciting. Here are five current developments in AI you may be seeing around you.

1. Translating

As you well know, not everyone on the planet speaks the same language. Many people try to cram in a few sentences of Italian or Portuguese before they travel so they can read menus or ask where the bathroom is. However, artificial intelligence could make this process easier.

Google began talking about the Google Lens in 2017, but its current place in cellphones has been incredibly beneficial for those learning a language. Holding your device up to something written in a foreign language allows the AI in the camera to translate it without needing to switch to another app. The company also has a real-time translation feature so you can still communicate with another person while artificial intelligence does the heavy lifting.

Think of the times you’ve seen a social media post in a different language, hit the Translate button and got a block of text that barely explained what the poster meant. Facebook’s parent company Meta is hoping to change that with its M2M-100 model, which it trained with millions of sentence structures to create more precise translations.

2. Helping the Environment

With the high rates of invasive species, poaching and climate change, the Earth could use more help than humans can offer. Luckily, artificial intelligence is giving scientists and conservationists an upper hand in this fight.

Many research institutes are creating AI models to scan for and locate invasive species harming local ecosystems. Some even add drones to the mix so they can take hundreds of large images at once and have the algorithm analyze them.

One algorithm called PAWS — or Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security — has been helping conservationists in Uganda and Cambodia stop poachers from hunting endangered species. PAWS is the creation of Harvard student Lily Xu and professor Milind Tambe. It aims to find where poachers might place traps and tell park rangers where they should make their rounds.

Artificial intelligence could also help scientists test different ways to help the planet. A digital twin of the Earth shows how different scenarios will affect it. Creating a model like this could help researchers discover the most effective steps to fight global warming.

3. Assisting Health Care Providers

Physicians have much to do in high-stress positions, as the COVID-19 pandemic showed. They are responsible for making quick decisions that often need to be lifesaving. Instead of solely relying on quick thinking and their own best judgment, they could start using AI to help make choices.

Artificial intelligence is helping doctors make diagnoses, research medications and train new staff with simulations. Could you imagine technology being able to tell you if you’re at an elevated risk of a health episode? As wearable technology becomes more advanced, it could warn you when you’re in danger of cancer or a heart attack.

Additionally, AI models can help speed up the paperwork process in health care. This is a less hands-on development, but it does allow physicians to focus more of their time on patients instead of menial jobs. Dedicating technology to these low-skill tasks can help all hospital and office staff do more intelligent work.

4. Driving Cars

Self-driving cars are no longer something you’d only see in the movies. Many companies are still working on rolling these vehicles out, but it could be just a matter of years before automated vehicles are the new normal.

This technology works the same way you would drive a car — by making judgments based on what it sees. The artificial intelligence in self-driving vehicles doesn’t technically have eyes, but they do rely on image recognition to “view” roads, stop signs and potential obstacles.

Current AI-powered cars operate at a lower level of automation. They have sensors to detect their surroundings and make decisions — like speeding up past a slower vehicle — but the driver still needs to be ready to take control. Most self-driving cars now are Level 2 or 3 on the autonomous driving scale.

However, developments are heading toward Level 4. This means you won’t really have to pay attention to what the car is doing, but you might want to just in case. The ultimate goal is Level 5, where passengers could sleep or watch a movie during their drive and have the AI do all the decision-making.

5. Creating Entertainment

It may sound a bit odd, but mixing artificial intelligence and art is a fascinating merge of technology and creativity. It could help make the next best video game, become an artist or even achieve celebrity status.

Right now, game developers use AI to give a bit more life to non-playable characters (NPCs). The model controls how the NPCs act based on a few prescripted choices and decides between them based on a situation. However, major studios are now looking at ways to get the NPCs to react in real-time to your decisions. They could even begin to learn your behaviors and go entirely unscripted, choosing how to respond on their own.

DALL-E is one art bot that’s been going viral on social media. All you need to do is give it an idea and it can generate images for you. Some of the art can look quite scary — it hasn’t quite grasped how to make faces yet — but it’s still an impressive algorithm. In the future, perhaps there will be artists who train AI based on their style.

One of the most interesting developments has been AI influencers. There are several fully automated social media personalities, some of which have thousands of followers. Many brands have found they are excellent marketing opportunities — Lil Miquela has worked with famous brands like Vogue and UGGs. You might not see them replace humans as celebrities, but they could become musicians or actors as the algorithms develop.

The Fashion & Gaming X-Overs You Need to Know

Fashion has conquered many industries on its quest to dominate mainstream culture, and now, gaming has fallen under its sartorial spell.

While the nerdy gamers of yesteryear were hardly the bastions of style, 21st-century gamers are immensely fashion conscious, leading some of the world’s fashion houses to take a foray into designing for games.

Read on to discover why fashion brands, including Louis Vuitton and Balenciaga, are clamouring to have their designs featured in the latest games.

The Gamification of Fashion

Of all the tech industries to have emerged since the late 20th century, gaming stands alone as being the most mainstream of all. The remote gaming market has grown exponentially in recent years, providing players with opportunities to play free online games across a spectrum of genres.

Although estimates vary, market researchers like Newzoo pinned global gaming revenues to be as high as $180.3 billion in 2021. Gaming is now larger than the music and film industries combined.

For today’s players, gaming isn’t just a hobby; it’s a lifestyle. Their digital avatars are carefully crafted to express all the facets of their identity, and that includes looking good, even if all they’re doing is trying to survive.

Gaming in Style

With gaming being such a lucrative industry, it’s no wonder that fashion brands are keen to capitalise on the increasing appetites of style-conscious gamers.

Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière has long been a sci-fi and gaming enthusiast. As far back as 2016, he was blurring the lines between fashion and gaming by casting Final Fantasy’s Lightning as the S/S 2016 campaign lead. Elements from games like Minecraft have even inspired his womenswear runway collections.

It was only a matter of time before LV would make its way into video games, and, in 2019, Ghesquière teamed up with Riot Games to craft an exclusive design for League of Legends character, Qiyana. The Empress of the Elements was suitably kitted out in a Louis Vuitton monogrammed outfit, right down to her Ohmlatl weapon.

Ghesquière followed this up by creating a one-off Trophy Travel Case awarded to the winners of the 2019 Summoner’s Cup – the LoL world championships. Cast in silver plate, brass and accented with 24ct gold, the case represented the designer and eSports collaboration.

In 2021, Balenciaga made its first steps into gaming with the release of its autumn/winter collection via the immersive video game Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow. The Maison followed this up by collaborating with Epic Games to produce exclusive character outfits for its MOBA behemoth, Fortnite.

Four characters in the game can now be kitted out in head-to-toe Balenciaga skins, with ‘fits even including backpacks and those iconic Triple S trainers. Furthermore, gamers can also purchase Balenciaga tools to use in the game, such as the Hourglass-bag glider and Speed-sneaker pickaxe, by visiting the virtual Retail Row – the Fornite take on the company’s brick and mortar stores.

Of course, it’s not just the fashion powerhouses that are dipping their toes into gaming waters. More independent brands are crossing over into designing for the digital realm. The Polish streetwear brand, MISBHV, produced a range of virtual clothes for RockStar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V. The label’s digital tees and hoodies, which are worn in the game by DJ group Keinemusik, were “conceived real-world first” to ensure authenticity in the virtual one.

Zedd – Make You Say

Fresh off the heels of the release of his brand-new single “Make You Say” with Maren Morris and BEAUZ (Click HERE), GRAMMY® award-winning global superstar, Zedd, announces he will perform Clarity live for one night only with a 50-piece orchestra to celebrate his iconic Platinum debut album’s 10-year anniversary. For the first-time ever, Zedd will be recreating the chart-topping 2012 album by performing it in its entirety, allowing fans to experience the project in a totally new and unique way. The incredibly special and once in a lifetime concert will take place on Sunday, October 9, 2022 at the legendary Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Artist pre-sale tickets will be available on Thursday, August 25^th at 10am local time, signup HERE. General on-sale tickets will be available on Friday, August 26^th at 10am local time. All tickets can be purchased HERE.

Zedd says: “When I was making the Clarity album I spent the most time on the melodic and harmonic elements of each song. Those motifs are the glue that hold the album together. It’s a dream to have the opportunity to play all of those ideas orchestrated and reharmonized with the instrumentation in the amazing orchestra we have put together.”

This is just one of many celebrations for the 10-year anniversary of Clarity, which includes an honorary show on October 7^th at the Bill Graham Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco where Zedd will be playing the original album from start to finish, along with more surprises to come.

About Zedd

Multi-platinum, GRAMMY® Award-winning artist/DJ/producer Zedd made his debut with “Clarity” after signing with Interscope in 2012 and has been breaking down barriers surrounding music genres ever since. Throughout his career, Zedd has worked with a diverse range of artists to create hits, including Foxes on “Clarity” (which earned Zedd a 2014 GRAMMY® “Best Dance Recording”), Hayley Williams on RIAA platinum-certified hit, “Stay The Night” (which racked up more than 1 billion streams), and Selena Gomez on the platinum-certified track, “I Want You To Know,” which spent four weeks at #1 on Billboard’s “Hot Dance/Electronic Songs” chart. He’s also collaborated with Alessia Cara on their hit single “Stay” which has amassed over 4.7 billion streams worldwide, held the #1 spot at Top 40 radio for six consecutive weeks, and earned Zedd his second GRAMMY® Award nomination. His 2018 monster hit “The Middle” with Maren Morris and Grey is officially certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, and the track garnered Zedd’s second #1 at Top 40 radio. Digitally, the song has over 4 billion streams worldwide and earned Zedd three GRAMMY® nominations including “Record Of The Year,” “Song Of The Year,” and “Best Pop Duo or Group Performance.” Most recently, Zedd opened the NHL All-Star Game with a performance during player introductions and he was the official pregame DJ during player warmups at this year’s NFL Super Bowl LVI.

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Monica Rambeau

This December, universal powerhouse Monica Rambeau will star in first-ever solo comic series! A five-issue limited series, MONICA RAMBEAU: PHOTON will be written by award-winning author and scholar Eve L. Ewing and drawn by new Marvel talent, artist Michael Sta. Maria. The iconic Marvel super hero with four decades worth of amazing stories will at long last headline her own saga.

From the New Orleans Harbor Patrol to the Avengers to the Ultimates, Monica Rambeau has been a leader and team player her entire life but now she’ll face a reality-shattering crisis that she’ll have no choice but to take on single-handedly. In order to do so, Photon will need to reach new heights of her incredible abilities—and then surpass them! In a revelatory journey spanning time and space, fan will behold Photon’s true potential. The adventure begins when Photon is charged with making a very special, very cosmic delivery. What should be light work (get it?) for Monica becomes increasingly complex and dangerous due to a threat from beyond and family drama.

“It’s such an honor to be taking on the story of a legacy character like Monica Rambeau,” Ewing said. “Monica’s character has a long history in the Marvel Universe, but she’s way overdue for getting her own story told. I’m picking the pen up from the legend himself, Dwayne McDuffie, who put out the last Monica Rambeau solo adventure almost three decades ago. It’s a privilege and I’m excited to tell the story in a way that both highlights her incredible cosmic abilities as well as her everyday, relatable struggles. I hope this will be a title that has something equal to offer to veteran readers and folks who may be brand new to comics.”

Explore the outer reaches and wildest vagaries of the Marvel Universe through the eyes of one of its most powerful heroes when MONICA RAMBEAU: PHOTON #1 arrives in December. For more information, visit Marvel.com.

Reebok Answers to No One

Reebok has confirmed a September 1 release for its Question Mid “Answer to No One” ($160, GW8858), a clean and contemporary color-up on Allen Iverson’s iconic basketball sneaker.

Arriving alongside a matching retro apparel collection, this take on Iverson’s first signature shoe offers multicolor detailing across a chalk upper, a custom graphic sock-liner, classic “Q” and “3” heel logos, and other flavorful hits atop a chalk midsole and glass blue tinted outsole. Apparel includes a Vector Fleece Hoodie (HG2578, $70), Vector Fleece Joggers (HM5913, $60), and two graphic tee variations (HL0077/ HL0076, $30).

Product imagery can be found HERE.

Reebok’s “Answer to No One” Question Mid and apparel pack are available beginning September 1 exclusively from Reebok.com.

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AMERICAN TOURISM TO TÜRKIYE

Americans are streaming to Türkiye in unprecedented numbers according to figures released today by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. While tourism worldwide plummeted in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of Americans visiting Türkiye in the first half of 2022 is up 76.8% over the same period of 2019 before the pandemic struck.

“This is an extraordinary and exciting result,” says Yalçın Lokmanhekim, the General Manager of TGA, Türkiye Tourism Promotion and Development Agency, underscoring not only Turkish tourism’s recovery from the pandemic, but also highlighting how Americans are vacationing in Türkiye in record-breaking numbers.

Number one destination in Türkiye for Americans is the city of Istanbul, with phenomenal interest in discovering other parts of this country that spans both Europe and Asia. After Istanbul, Americans’ favorite destinations currently include the Turkish Aegean coast, the city of Izmir, and the unique landscapes of Cappadocia in the east of the country.

213,000 Americans visited Türkiye in January through June 2019, with 377,000 in the same period of 2022.

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Combat Unproductive Meetings w/ Enhanced Scheduling

Typical tips on meeting productivity include sharing the agenda beforehand, starting your meeting on time, keeping the conversation going, and asking questions.

Although those are great tips that will make any meeting more productive, it’s easy to forget the one thing that can make or break meeting productivity: the scheduling.

If scheduling a meeting sounds like a horror film title, it’s because it is. For most of us, at least.

From checking in on each and every attendee, one by one, to emailing them back-and-forth until you can find a time that works for them…and then having to do it all over again, because — surprises, surprise — they won’t be able to attend the meeting at the scheduled time.

If you’re currently operating like that, you shouldn’t be surprised that it takes hours or even days for you to schedule a single meeting.

You shouldn’t blame yourself for developing a toxic relationship with meetings, either. If just scheduling them drains all of your energy, the meeting prep and the actual meetings will always feel like exhausting work.

You can follow every meeting productivity tip to a T. Unless you have a scheduling platform that helps you do your job, your meetings will remain the same.

With that in mind, here are today’s best productivity tips for meetings:

Schedule your meetings with one email. No more, no less.
Find the best time for every attendee without emailing them back-and-forth.
Schedule and organize your meetings inside your inbox, instead of switching to multiple tabs.

Do you often feel unproductive online meetings? It’s not your fault.

If you’ve been trying to get this online meeting thing right for a couple years now, you’ve probably struggled with at least one of the following situations:

The pain of scheduling and setting up meetings on a bunch of different platforms.
Emailing guests back-and-forth until you can, by some miracle, settle on a time slot that works for them.
Organizing unproductive meetings that bring up “this could’ve been an email” jokes.

The blame (and the joke) is on the platform you’re using.

‍But, the truth is, everyone is wrestling with the same online meeting issues you are. Every. Single. Day. Yes, even though they might look like they’re experts at it.

Here’s why:

Because the seemingly simple task of scheduling emails takes us days, when it should take us seconds.And we all know that it’s virtually impossible to plan an effective meeting when we’ve spent half of our planning time on haphazard scheduling. You don’t need a better agenda. Not necessarily. What you need is a scheduling platform that respects your time!

About Letsmeet

Letsmeet allows businesses to eliminate back and forth email correspondence regarding meeting scheduling, and offers a simple solution to book meetings in just one click. Scheduling meetings is a recurring and universal pain point, and thirty percent of emails are about scheduling itself. With 55 million meetings occurring every day in the United States, scheduling is often a complicated and time-consuming daily task. The Letsmeet network solves this relevant issue by evaluating all of the participants’ calendars, and suggesting the open time slots that work for all parties.

For more information, please visit HERE.

About The Author

Letsmeet is led by CEO and Founder Gilles Raymond. Raymond is a three time startup CEO and Founder, who also created In-Fusio and News Republic, acquired by Bytedance. Additionally, Raymond is the Founder and President of The Signals Foundation, an organization that protects and supports whistleblowers.

Article: Gilles Raymond, CEO and Founder of Letsmeet

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MARVEL REMASTERWORKS

For over thirty years, Marvel Comics has collected the seminal stories of the Marvel Universe in MARVEL MASTERWORKS—and now, 330 volumes later, Marvel is proud to welcome fans to MARVEL REMASTERWORKS! By popular demand, the Remasterworks will be new printings of early Marvel Masterworks, now with improved restoration and expanded bonus material including scans of original art, essays and covers from other collections of the material, house ads, creator bios, and more! Dedicated to Marvel fans, these are the comics that built the Marvel Comics mythology and represent Marvel’s latest step in preserving its treasured history.

MARVEL REMASTERWORKS will debut next year starting with MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1, which includes scans of the original artwork to Amazing Fantasy #15, and followed by MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 and MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE X-MEN VOL. 1. If you missed purchasing these historic early volumes of the Marvel Masterworks line the first time around, now is your chance to own them! With plans to do only a single printing of each volume, don’t miss your opportunity to have these must-have Marvel Comics collections, now in at their utmost glory! For more information, visit Marvel.com.

DEMI LOVATO

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Vevo, the world’s leading music video network, announces the release of Demi Lovato’s Official Live Performance of “29” off her new album, HOLY FVCK, out now (listen HERE). Vevo’s Official Live Performances are the result of close creative collaboration with artists and their teams, resulting in a series of very special exclusive performances. Vevo and Demi Lovato have a long history working together, including a 2012 “Vevo Presents” set, 2017 Vevo x Demi Lovato performance of “Tell Me You Love Me,” and Footnotes videos of “SUBSTANCE,” “SKIN OF MY TEETH” and “Dancing With The Devil.”

Official Live Performances are the flagship original content for Vevo, working with the biggest names in music – they are the result of close creative collaboration with artists and their teams, resulting in a series of very special exclusive performances. Specifically tailored creatives meant to fit the vision of each individual artist chosen, these performances connect artists with their global audience of fans adding to their visual library.

“Our team has had the privilege of working with Demi for the past decade, and we were thrilled to bring our partnership to the next level with an Official Live Performance,” says JP Evangelista, Vevo’s SVP of Content, Programming & Marketing, “Demi’s artistry is truly unmatched, and she has carved out her place in the industry. We really dug into the creative with Demi and collaborated throughout the entire process, she was incredibly intentional with the vision for the set and how we could elevate the vibe of her new music. Working with such an involved artist makes all the difference in these partnerships, and we really feel that it shines through on screen. These edgy performances are truly all Demi and better than ever!”

Demi Lovato closely collaborated with Vevo’s team to create a completely bespoke set that allowed room for honesty and vulnerability. The intention of the performance space was to strike a balance between alluring and disorienting, clean and approachable. The camera pans in to find Demi on a red carpeted platform illuminated by a grid of bright white lights. Clad in a black leather skirt and black blouse, Demi stalks towards the camera, snarling and belting with her band supporting from the side.

“My new album HOLY FVCK is a deeply personal journey that begins with pain and anger, and through this emotional release, the album concludes in a hopeful place of joy that allows me to take my power back from the very things that made me angry,” Demi states. “I knew I wanted to showcase my new music in a unique way for my fans, both visually and sonically. So when an Original Live Performance with Vevo was on the table, I immediately started to brainstorm creatively – the lighting, the room design, my look and outfits, how to incorporate our incredible female live band – all of it! The Vevo team made this vision a reality with me, and I hope my fans can feel the emotion and power through these live performances.”

Additionally, Demi will bring the album to fans across South America and North America this Fall on the HOLY FVCK Tour. Fans can expect to hear new songs from the album as well as reimagined rock versions of Demi’s hits, including “Sorry Not Sorry,” “Cool for the Summer,” and more. Tickets and VIP packages are available now at demilovato.com.

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Willow Kayne – Rat Race

Gen Z talent links together huge opposing forces, creating her own potent brand of rebel-pop.” – Clash

In little over a year, London based vocalist and visual artist Willow Kayne has enjoyed a prodigious ascent to the pinnacle of pop music’s more daring corners. Her postmodern approach to songwriting was rewarded in 2021 with Willow receiving the Ivor Novello Rising Star award, setting her on a path to achieve greatness early in her career. Her riotously received debut EP Playground Antics was the catalyst for an explosion of rave reviews, while with live shows and online previews, she has shared a glimpse of the soundtrack to her ever-expanding sonic world. With recent singles “Final Notice” and “White City,” Willow shared more propulsive and surreal facets of her arsenal, while with the release of new track “Rat Race” today, Willow delves deep into introspection in her own unique way.

Opening to jagged yet muted guitar tones, Willow questions her own path towards her goals – using a slack yet melodic flow to express her distaste with how uncertain her path is. Her lyricism is refreshingly appropriate for today’s current landscape, with lyrics such as “I’m only seeing successes, the others don’t reach For You page’, referencing the industry’s obsession with social media as a means of staying relevant. “Rat Race’s” chorus acts as a sonic unburdening of the mental constraints that are binding Willow, with a balmy, uplifting instrumental line that soothes the bite of the track’s previous spiked-edged momentum. Willow’s vocal elevates; fully opening up and surrendering to the ridiculousness of the industry she finds herself in and contemporary adult life.

On the track, Willow says: “I wrote ‘Rat Race’ when I was going through a little crisis; the music business sometimes makes me feel like I am a lottery ticket among millions of others. To sum it up briefly, it’s about the moment when you ask yourself “Am I doing this right? Or better yet, what AM I doing?”

Nice little existential crisis this one.”

An ode to the confidence in her own abilities, but lack of trust in the process to strive for access to her dreams, Willow Kayne’s “Rat Race” is an internal look into the anxieties of one of 2022’s most expansive pop talents. An artist who has encapsulated a no holds barred attitude to her own conviction since the outset of her career, “Rat Race” is a refreshing change of pace from Willow, who lays all her doubts on the line – still with a sense of buoyant determination and relatability at all times.

Willow Kayne will also headline a very special multi-sensory show at London’s XOYO on September 29, 2022, following her sold out dual headline dates earlier in the year, as well as triumphant set at this year’s Glastonbury Festival and London’s All Points East festival with stylistic idols Gorillaz. Tickets on sale now HERE.

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