This browser extension dims tweets you’ve already read

Aug26
by on August 26, 2020 at 12:06 pm
Posted In: Apps, Plugged


The internet gods are witness to the fact that I spend an awful amount of time on Twitter. If the internet was an actual religion, I’d spent a lot of time in the confession box talking about the site. While I have to keep an eye on Twitter for work, I also spend a lot of time looking at memes and reposted TikTok videos. But because of the site’s weird algorithm, I end up seeing a lot of tweets again and again — it’s kinda frustrating. However recently, I chanced upon a handy extension (works on both Chrome and Firefox), that can…

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Two left feet? Facebook’s new AI dance choreographer can teach you some brand new moves

Aug25
by on August 25, 2020 at 11:31 am
Posted In: artificial intelligence


Facebook‘s AI boffins have developed a new system that creates original dance routines for any music that you feed it. The system doesn’t merely imitate the Moonwalk, the Renegade, or whatever other moves the kidz are busting on TikTok these days. Instead, it creates entirely new routines that are “synchronized and surprising” — “the two main criteria of a creative dance,” according to Facebook. The company claims the system can vanquish the choreographer’s equivalent of writer’s block. Frustrated dancers need only play it a song, and the system will analyze the tune and spit back some original synchronized moves. [Read: 4…

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