The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s the $199 picture frame / wall art speaker that The Verge exclusively reported on earlier this year and Ikea later prematurely posted on its website. The front art can be removed, revealing the speaker drivers underneath, and swapped out for other colors and designs. The art print can be swapped for other styles.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Are the products created via such a process of worse, better, or equivalent quality as traditional art products? It''s complicated.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Motion Sonic is, in the words of Sony’s campaign, “effects gear to control sound in sync with your motion for playing music.”. These effects are all created and saved on an iOS app, then you need to connect your iPhone to your instrument with an audio interface. It’s not compatible with Android.).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, That feels good.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It’s worth replaying through Half-Life: Alyx from start to finish once more — if only because Valve’s development team just added over three hours of audio commentary to the VR-only game that launched earlier this year. Valve endearingly shared that the development team in Seattle recorded the commentary “in closets and blanket forts.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

Last week I posted about Dave Gilbert's experiment with podcasting "unnofficial audio guides" at Moma, a project called "Apologia: We love MoMA. These audio guides were inspired by a recent podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record narrations of their vacations so others can enjoy.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Instead of pushing the state of the art forward, Google has seemingly retreated to simpler, more reliable, and less expensive technology. The bottom speaker sounds much better than the panel audio speaker. Instead, Google has used the technology it acquired when it bought Redux in 2018 : panel audio.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

“We want to use new tools to create new art, new experiences, new culture. “Music is the lifeblood of our vision, and accordingly, we’ve invested significantly in the core audio engine,” McGarry said.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The new Symfonisk has a more traditional design, fixes the original’s frustratingly limited bulb compatibility, and has a revamped speaker architecture that does a better job spreading sound throughout a room. Like other modern Sonos speakers, the lamp supports Apple’s AirPlay 2, so it’s easy to play audio on it from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The other “multiplayer” startup — the one backed by 500 Startups, along with numerous angel investors — is Hearo.live , which is the brainchild of Ned Lerner, who previously spent 13 years as a director of engineering with Sony Worldwide Studios and a short time before that as the CTO of an Electronic Arts division.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

Discord is a great mix of Slack messaging and Zoom video, combined together with a unique ability to just drop into audio calls freely. Discord raised $100 million last year to try to move beyond just gaming and attract art communities, sports networks, school clubs, and lots more. Image: Discord.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. Sounds great.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

As for sound quality, Samsung is building more speaker drivers into the 2021 TVs for what it calls Object Tracking Sound. The TVs analyze scenes and try to make it seem like sound is coming directly from the source on screen — and moving with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2022

It all sounds very similar to Google TV and the Apple TV app; everyone wants to be your main portal for browsing entertainment, leaving streaming apps just to play the movies and shows you want to watch. There will of course be personalized recommendations as well. Image: Samsung. Samsung has redesigned its TV home screen for 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

He works for this non-profit that supports independent, non-corporate audio and video file sharing (among other things). He has been the lead developer for Videobomb , a website that lets anyone who wants to add their digital video, primarily little independent art pieces, spoofs, etc.-- look out.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

You would think I would have the perfect see-ya-later wave almost down to an art by now, especially considering I’m living 700 miles away from friends and family (despite me trying everything except putting for-sale signs in their yards to get them to move closer). I’m horrible with goodbyes. I mean, horrible. You should.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Its art (by Richard Parry ) is so good that I’ve attached it above for you to peep. The capable Nest Audio smart speaker is back down to $60. Google’s Nest Audio is the successor to the original Google Home from 2016. If that was’t enough, they also offer great battery life and solid sound. Photo: Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

million wellness sessions, combining “meditation techniques, flow-inducing gameplay, binaural audio and breathing exercises” to inspire wonder while transforming how users feel. “When I was at Electronic Arts, I knew how toxic game communities can be and how they are not friendly to women. We want to do sound baths.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

ska, an art historian interested in museums, education, and new technologies. She has created educational mobile apps for teaching art history and is the organizer of the Polish edition of Free Arts Day. This might sound like a truism, but those are key considerations during development. User Experience Matters.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He added that the pandemic “provided a boost to multimedia creation and the demand for scalable audio content was growing rapidly.”. Murf.ai, its SaaS platform, was developed to make it easier for clients to create high-quality natural sounding voiceovers for any commercial purpose.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

When items go missing, the Tile app leverages Bluetooth to find the items and can make them play a sound. Tile has also formed partnerships focused on integrating its finding network into over 40 different third-party devices, including those across audio, travel, wearables, and PC categories. Image Credits: Tile internal concept art.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Android 12 will support spatial audio, support MPEG-H, and be optimized for up to 24 channels of audio (up from eight before). It will also make it easier for developers to tie rumble effects to audio. Android 12’s big addition to this system is the Android Runtime (ART), a fundamental subsystem for making Android apps run.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 14, 2011

A low level of sound (music and or speaking) can provide a hum that helps people feel relaxed about talking in the museum. and of course, who could forget Machine Project's charming "personal audio tour" in which a visitor plugs his/her headphones into a guy with an electric guitar who follows the visitor around?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2017

Last year, when I released The Art of Relevance , people asked if there was an audiobook version in the works. So I am thrilled to announce that The Art of Relevance audiobook is now available for YOU to listen to on Audible , Amazon , and iTunes. It honestly hadn't crossed my mind.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Smeets, who moved to the microscopes because he found the electricity inputs “very invisible,” matched the leaf patterns seen with the microscopes to different tones using a digital audio workstation (DAW). I wanted to extend my research about [using] everyday sound,” he says. This is still essentially what the PlantWave does.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

To help you find the right show for your interests, we’ve compiled our audio output from the week. There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. It sounds rough. Episode 60: Claire Coder, Aunt Flow. On Instagram.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited. TUTORING ART. Tutoring Art can even host Virtual Painting Fundraisers & Instructionals on your organization’s behalf. speaker events & Rallies.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Photo by Billy Steele/Engadget Samsung LS60D Music Frame for $150 at Woot ($250 off) : You might be familiar with Samsung's Frame TV the sets that mimic works of art when you're not watching television. This one doesn't have a screen, instead you'll insert your own photo or art behind the glass.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

Tell us a bit about your audio setup. It’s a Shure Beta 87A microphone, mounted on a Heil PL2T arm and connected to a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 audio interface. Usually, it just makes me sound really great on Zoom calls (and lets me pretend I’m going to make more episodes of a podcast I made three episodes of and then gave up on).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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DataRobot

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While this may sound complicated, using DataRobot makes this much easier. One of the earliest techniques was to use spectrogram images to classify audio signals. When we convert the single channel audio signal time series into an energy spectrogram, it allows us to run state of the art deep learning architectures on the image. .

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Typically $400, Amazon is currently selling the best-sounding noise-canceling headphones for non-Apple users — the Sennheiser Momentum 3 Wireless — in white for $235. As noted in our review , we found that the comfortable headphones offer detailed, bass-rich sound while providing 17 hours of playback per charge. Read our review.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt’s past work includes fundraising for the University of the Arts, Ursinus College, University of Cincinnati and the Boy Scouts of America. It may sound minor, but it’s a great opportunity to make your volunteers feel at home and answer any housekeeping questions they might have. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Introduce them.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

While there are some kinds of participation that are not language-based like making art or voting, most participation is lingual. Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

P lanning your promotional strategy - How to guide people to dialogue with you in your podcast I mage - what people will see when they come to your podcast C ontent - Even if your sounds like crap, if you content is good - you'll be successful. She ends with.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

The second-gen Amazon Echo Buds are $80 at Amazon, and offer effective noise cancellation, an excellent passthrough mode, and solid sound for the price. Apple’s Beats Studio Buds feature USB-C, deliver satisfying sound, and support a range of Android features, which can’t be said of most Apple products. Read our review.

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