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• How L-Acoustics brings the sweet sound of spatial audio to the masses

  06-07-2022 20:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  For most of our lives, stereo has been the primary way of rendering the music we consume. Immersive audio systems like surround sound have been around for decades, but immersive audio content has been rare outside of TV and film. But perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising: reproducing and, especially, creating immersive audio content is awfully inconvenient. Luckily, things are starting to change. Immersive audio is finally becoming accessible to the mainstream thanks to big-name manufactur
  
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• IBM’s gobbling up AI companies left and right — and we love it

  06-07-2022 20:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Big Blue’s been on a buying spree lately with Databand.ai, a big data startup, becoming its latest acquisition. Don’t blink. If you do, you might miss another huge IBM buyout. Up front: Big data is a big deal. Less than a decade ago, many businesses were manually entering data into spreadsheets to meet their insight needs. Today, even the most modest startups can benefit from deep analytics. Unfortunately, the landscape of companies that provide targeted services for a spectrum of i
  
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• Meta’s new open-source AI takes step towards a universal language translator

  06-07-2022 17:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta has taken another step towards creating a universal language translator. The company has open-sourced an AI model that translates over 200 languages — many of which aren’t supported by existing systems. The research is part of a Meta initiative launched earlier this year. “We call this project No Language Left Behind, and the AI modeling techniques we used from NLLB are helping us make high quality translations on Facebook and Instagram for languages spoken by billions of
  
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• Meta’s new open-source AI is a step towards a universal language translator

  06-07-2022 17:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta has taken another step towards creating a universal language translator. The company has open-sourced an AI model that translates over 200 languages — many of which aren’t supported by existing systems. The research is part of a Meta initiative launched earlier this year. “We call this project No Language Left Behind, and the AI modeling techniques we used from NLLB are helping us make high quality translations on Facebook and Instagram for languages spoken by billions of
  
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• No, a Chinese automaker isn’t selling more EVs than Tesla

  06-07-2022 17:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Tesla haters were out in full force this morning with news that Chinese automaker BYD had toppled Tesla to become the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles. There’s just one problem — it isn’t true. Publications from Financial Times to The Independent, and Axios crowed that BYD sold 641,000 vehicles during the first half of 2022. That’s quite a few thousand more than Tesla’s 564,000. But they failed to include some crucial analysis that is easily un
  
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• 10 Great Places to Find Music for Videos

  06-07-2022 16:30 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  Creating videos for social media or to embed on your site can be a fun and creative way to promote your brand or business. More importantly, time spent on a page is a significant SEO ranking factor, so providing a video to watch is of enormous benefit.
  However, coming up with the music for your videos can be challenging. You want something catchy that fits your video’s tone but don’t want to violate copyright laws.
  Music licensing can be tricky, but if you’re smart about it an
  
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• This badass tool makes advanced YouTube searches a breeze

  06-07-2022 16:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  YouTube has succeeded in making life difficult for its users. It ruins your groove with annoying in-video ads. It constantly bugs you to go premium. And it makes searching for anything specific, well, a challenge. Yes, you can apply filters to your search, but these are often fiddly and irritating to use. Credit: YouTube Luckily for all exasperated YouTube users, there’s a badass tool that can give you the advanced search options you’re craving without all the hassle. It’s cal
  
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• God bless the EU for forcing Amazon to introduce two-click Prime cancellation (in member states)

  06-07-2022 14:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  The pain of unsubscribing from Amazon Prime is over – at least if you live in Europe.  There’s definitely power in numbers. From now on, consumers from the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) can unsubscribe from Amazon Prime with just two clicks, using a prominent and clear “cancel button.”  The new Amazon cancellation process includes a “prominent and clear” cancel button and short explanatory text. Compare this to the previous process which i
  
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• Gen Z’s hunger for 2010s nostalgia is giving Tumblr a new lease of life

  06-07-2022 12:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  When tech billionaire Elon Musk made a deal to acquire Twitter in April 2022, many Twitter users threatened to shut down their accounts and migrate elsewhere online. Tumblr – a microblogging platform launched in 2007 and long known as a laboratory for social justice causes and burgeoning fan cultures – became one contender. However, many Twitter users proposing a migration to Tumblr seemed to be those who had abandoned the site only a few years prior. In 2018, Tumblr content deemed
  
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