Week 39 - 2023

Chinese sportswear brand Anta Sports has partnered with basketball star Kyrie Irving to boost its presence in the West, after Nike dropped him last year. Anta has unveiled a new logo for Irving, called the 'Enlightened Warrior', featuring a mirrored 'K' representing self-knowledge and peaks symbolizing speed, focus, agility, and strength. Some fans preferred the Nike logo because of its clarity. So, to learn more about this new logo, and the brand's future projects, you can check the link below.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and major studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract, potentially ending the 146-day strike in the content industry. The deal includes significant gains and protections for writers, addressing key demands made by the WGA. To learn more about the decisions made, especially what will be the next move, check the link below.

Agility Robotics is opening the world's first humanoid robot manufacturing factory in Salem, Oregon called "RoboFab". The 70,000-square-foot facility will produce annually over 10,000 advanced versions of their bipedal and headless robot Digit. The factory aims to address workforce problems and create high-skilled job opportunities. To learn more about these robots, and how are they going to be used, you can check the link below.

The metaverse is a network of interconnected digital spaces that will redefine work, play, and communication. Programming languages like C#, C++, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, Python, Rust, Lua, GDScript, and Vyper are essential for creating metaverse games and applications. To learn how, check the link below.

Getty Images has launched its own AI image generator called Generative AI by Getty Images. The tool uses Nvidia's Edify model and is trained on Getty's own library of licensed photos, ensuring the content it produces is safe to use. Users have perpetual, unlimited worldwide rights and copyright indemnification for the generated images. It will even pay a certain category of creators, and will have a sharing revenue program in place. For more details, you can check the link below.

LayoutNUWA is a model that approaches layout development as a code generation problem, using programming languages to improve semantic information and leverage the expertise of large language models (LLMs). It consists of three interconnected components: Code Initialization, Code Completion, and Code Rendering. To learn more about this research, like the performances evaluation, and the made conclusions, you can check the link below.

VAST Dynamics has made its Vaporizer 2 Synthesizer plugin open-source and available as a free download, expanding the list of free synthesizer plugins. Vaporizer 2 is a feature-rich hybrid plugin with wavetable, sampler, additive, and FM synthesis capabilities, and more. To learn more about the plugin, and how to download it, you can check the link below.

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