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How to record vocals for music and spoken word

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 11:54 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Basics, Music, Plugged


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. There are different schools of thought when it comes to getting your vocals perfect for any project. The easiest way, surely, is building a million-dollar studio and filling it with the best gear money can buy. This is a guide for those of us who don’t have that option. The first thing you need to do is find out where you’re at vis-a-vis what you need, what you want, and what you can afford. The…

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Nintendo is facing a class-action lawsuit over ‘Joy-Con drift’

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 10:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


As more and more reports of flaws in the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controllers surface, a New England law firm is championing the players with a lawsuit against the company. If you haven’t experienced it, the fault occurs sometimes in Joy-Con that have been in use for a while. The Switch will react as if the thumbstick is being moved even when it’s not being touched, which can obviously cause some gameplay problems. The so-called “Joy-Con drift” has never really been explained. Is it the result of a hardware problem or stress from use? Nintendo isn’t saying, and I can’t even find…

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Review: Samsung’s Space Monitor saved me from cluttered-desk hell

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 7:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Music, Plugged


Samsung’s Space Monitor is a clever gadget whose sum is greater than its parts. On first glance, it’s simply a decent screen mounted on an innovative bracket. But it’s hard to overstate how huge an impact it’s had on my workflow as both a tech reviewer and a musician. There’s a lot of great displays out there, but this one is a much-needed, esoteric departure from the feature-bloated monitors in the status quo. As a gamer and someone who dabbles in film and photography, I appreciate a top-of-the-line monster of a monitor like Alienware’s huge curved screens or Apple’s mind-blowing…

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This site turns your selfies into Renaissance portraits with AI

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 6:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Insider


First came Instagram filters. Then came the Snapchat masks. Now AI renders are the latest way of using technology to change the way we look. Sure, FaceApp has been making the rounds for its dramatic aging filters (and questionable data practices), but for something more dignified, why not render your face like a Renaissance portrait instead? AIportraits.com does just that. Created by a team of researches at the MIT IBM Watson AI Lab, the site uses an AI model trained on 45,000 portraits from styles ranging from the Early Renaissance to the Contemporary period. The results are surprisingly authentic. The…

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No, you don’t own your apps — here’s why it feels like you do

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 5:42 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, syndication


Possessions are going out of fashion. An endless stream of media reports claim millennials – that amorphous mass of people born in the 1980s and 1990s who have grown up with the internet and digital technology – are in favor of accessing rather than owning stuff. And yet my research shows that owning possessions is still something millennials hunger for. It is just that these possessions are now digital rather than physical. People who become heavy users of the apps they download can develop deep relationships with these services, so deep that they take on what we call “psychological ownership”…

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