The Creative Technologist Roundup - 5.0
Meta has a new retail store, Elon is spending $44 Billion on Twitter and a new AI algorithm can judge you harder than Tinder.
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#Retail
Meta Will Open the Doors to Its First Retail Store Next Month
The Meta Store will be located on the company's Burlingame, California campus. In the 1,550-square-foot space, customers can take part in exciting new demos, such as making calls to retail associates with Portal and exploring the immersion of VR with a first-of-its-kind immersive Quest 2 experience.
#Social
Elon Musk Will Buy Twitter for $44 Billion USD
As part of the deal, shareholders will receive $54.20 in cash in exchange for each share of Twitter stock they currently own. This marks a 38% premium over the stock price on the day before Musk announced that he had become a shareholder. Upon completion of the deal, Twitter will become a private company.
#NFT
Harvey Nichols Launches Blue-Chip NFT Retail Space
Luxury department store Harvey Nichols announced that it will be launching a retail concept space inside of its Hong Kong branch for non-fungible tokens. The space will feature a wide selection of specially curated blue-chip NFTs from popular projects like CryptoPunks and Doodles.
#Gaming
Ubisoft Officially Announces New Team Battle Arena Game 'Project Q'
Taking to Twitter to announce the upcoming game, the French video game studio calls Project Q a 'team battle arena' that will let 'players truly own the experience.' Ubisoft did emphasize that the game will not be a battle royale title and no NFTs are planned for it, a subject matter which has caused great controversy among the company's fanbase in recent months.
#Interactive
Scientists create 'deliberately' biased AI
A study about the judgmental AI, describes how researchers trained the model how to judge attributes in human faces, the way we do upon first meeting each other, and how they trained it to manipulate photos to evoke different judgments, such as appearing 'trustworthy' or 'dominant.'
#Streaming
Spotify opens up video podcasting to everyone in the US and select markets
All creators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand can now upload video podcasts to Spotify, the streaming service has announced. Video can be uploaded through Anchor, the podcast creation tool Spotify purchased in 2019. Video podcasts are compatible with Spotify's podcast subscriptions feature and work with embeds.