Most people don’t adjust the settings on their TV after they buy it. Most newer TVs, meanwhile, come with a bunch of random junk turned on by default; things like motion smoothing that makes epic movies look like soap operas, or noise reduction that can wash out details and make an actor’s skin look cyborg-y.…
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Ambient music that resists defaults. Taiwan-born, Berlin-based composer and audio technologist Mei-Fang Liau, aka Floating Spectrum, will release her debut album A Point Between next month on Temporary Residence. The 7-track album was built using various pre- and self-fabricated synthesizers, a self-designed generative sound system that translates visual data into sound and a smattering of…
via Floating Spectrum debuts on Temporary Residence — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
Scott Sanborn Contributor Scott Sanborn is CEO of LendingClub. 2019 has already been an active year for U.S. tech IPOs. Some highly anticipated unicorns, such as Uber and Lyft, have disappointed investors with their IPO debuts and their first results as public companies. Others, such as Fiverr, Zoom and CrowdStrike, have soared. And food-tech brand…
via 2019 tech IPOs: Some thoughts from the public company roller coaster — TechCrunch
The Walt Disney Company reminds me a bit of the Blob, absorbing every profitable, halfway wholesome entertainment brand—ABC, Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm, most of ESPN and, earlier this year, all of 21st Century Fox—that crosses its path on a journey to world domination. And never has the mega-corp’s enormous influence over pop culture been more striking…
via Disney Has Reshaped the Movie Industry. Will Disney+ Do the Same for Television? — TIME
(WASHINGTON) — Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams made the announcement, with Azar calling marijuana “a dangerous drug.” Officials said…
via ‘This Ain’t Your Mother’s Marijuana.’ Federal Health Officials Issue National Warning on Pot — TIME
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a new series on Netflix, is perhaps not meant for viewers who don’t readily identify as fantasy nerds — nor for the faint of heart. The series features curiously named species like Gelflings and Skeksis, macabre violence, entangled mythology and callbacks to a 37-year-old film. Oh, and all the…
via What to Know About The Dark Crystal Before Watching the Netflix Prequel — TIME
Ok…our attention has been got. The ever-contentious Kanye West has funneled a cryptic album announcement through his wife Kim Kardashian West’s Twitter account. Kim posted the following tweet earlier today, which seems to reveal an album title, Jesus is King, a tracklist and a September 27 release date. 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/ZmGvtN7o7C — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian)…
via Kanye West to release new album Jesus is King next month — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
Next month, Netflix will release a three-part documentary series called “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates,” in which Davis Guggenheim (director of “An Inconvenient Truth” and “He Named Me Malala”) aims to figure out what goes on inside the head of the world’s second-richest human. Netflix first announced the docuseries last week. Now they’ve released…
via What’s Bill Gates’ worst fear? Netflix’s new docuseries will try to figure him out — TechCrunch
Hurricane Dorian is predicted to hit the northern Bahamas and parts of the southeastern United States this weekend, unleashing sustained rain and wind speeds tracking around 130 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. Storm predictions were dire enough for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to declare a state of emergency ahead of its…
via Here’s What Hurricane Dorian Looks Like From Space — TIME
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