When visually impaired music producer Jason Dasent decided to buy a collection of instrument plugins from Arturia about four years ago, he did so despite his suspicion that the company's tools wouldn't be accessible. "At that point I couldn't browse and use the software," he said. "I pretty much couldn't do anything." He had spent some $500 on Arturia's V Collection 5, a set of virtual instruments that included recreations of some vintage synths he wanted to use. It was cheaper than spending hundreds of thousands on actual synths, he told himself.

It's been three years since Anthony Bourdain died, by suicide, in June of 2018, and the void he left is still a void. "I wish Anthony Bourdain was here to see this," countless people have tweeted over the past thirty-seven-ish months, on occasions as varied as a New York gubernatorial candidate ordering a cinnamon-raisin bagel, the White House serving a McDonald's banquet, the collapse of the American restaurant industry, and the sputtering attempts to revive the same. Bourdain was a television megastar, a fluid and conversational writer, a social-media gadfly, a pointed cultural commentator, and seemingly everyone's best friend. The singularity of his celebrity and the suddenness of his death have fuelled an uncommonly intense, uncommonly enduring grief--a personal sense of public loss, of a sort usually reserved for popes and Presidents. In 2019, about a year after Bourdain's death, the documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville began talking to people who had been close to Bourdain: his family, his friends, the producers and crew of his television series.

Netflix is planning to add video games to its massive library of films and TV shows within the next 12 months, a new report claims. Games will be available on Netflix at no extra cost to the standard subscription price, according to Bloomberg, although the move may make it easier for Netflix'to justify price increases in coming years'. Netflix has also confirmed to MailOnline that it has just hired Mike Verdu, a former executive of Electronic Arts (EA), the successful video games firm, who will lead the expansion into games. At EA, Verdu previously worked on mobile games including titles in the Sims, Plants vs. Zombies and Star Wars franchises. He has also worked for Facebook and Kabam, one of the biggest creators of smartphone and tablet games.

In the wake of the pandemic, a growing number of businesses are speeding up plans to adopt AI and automation, according to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2020. As humans and technology increasingly work together, here are five examples of the range of applications for artificial intelligence and where it might do good. Overfishing can deprive millions of people of their livelihood and billions of people of the food they need. OceanMind is a UK-based organization fighting back against overfishing and illegal fishing using AI. Pulling data from a variety of sources, including on-board collision-avoidance transmitters, radar and satellite imagery, and phone signals, OceanMind can track thousands of vessels around the world.

The fear is so publicised that I was not surprised when I came across a website--Will Robots Take My Job?--that lets you search your job's relevancy against technology over time! Marketing is the latest to buzz with such apprehensions. Clearly, there is no dearth of examples of AI in action with it being infused across the 4Ps of marketing, however, it is far from competing with marketers or replacing them. Instead, it is boosting our effectiveness and efficiency as it takes care of the mundane leaving more time for thinking and creativity. And, whether AI remains a friend or becomes a foe really depends on how we use it.

Text models currently struggle to produce factually correct responses when asked questions about factual information. They can generate responses that appear compelling to laymen but are entirely incorrect. This problem is attributed to the current challenges in natural language processing which include contextual words, homonyms, synonyms, sarcasm, and ambiguity. The negative societal implications of text generation are fake news and the spread of disinformation. It can be used to produce believable content on a massive scale with much greater efficiency and lower barriers to entry. It can also be used for harmful activities like spam, phishing, abuse of legal and government processes, fraudulent academic writing, and pretexting.

Netflix may be a TV show, movie and game streaming platform in the near future. According to Bloomberg, the company has hired Mike Verdu, a former Oculus and EA exec, as vice president of game development. Verdu was the VP of augmented and virtual reality games and content at Facebook, where he worked with developers for the Oculus Rift, Quest and Go. From 2017 to 2018, he was also the head of EA Mobile and oversaw the studios that worked on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, SimCity BuildIt, Plants vs. Zombies and Sims Free Play, among others. The company will reportedly build out its gaming team in the coming months to be able to start offering games for streaming within the next year.

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The proliferation of yellow journalism or fake news and the way it is spreading especially on social media has become a big concern because of its devastating effects. At this stage when the information we require is under our fingertips, on the web we see a lot of cooked-up stories designed to make people believe something. This may involve buying a particular product, visit a website, or even sensitive information about religion, community, etc. This is nothing but'fake news which is a type of yellow journalism that consists of misinformation or hoaxes spread via online social media or even on print and broadcast news channels. There's almost no restriction by social media platforms for anyone to publish his/her thoughts.

Netflix Inc., marking its first big move beyond TV shows and films, is planning an expansion into video games and has hired a former Electronic Arts Inc. and Facebook Inc. executive to lead the effort. Mike Verdu will join Netflix as vice president of game development, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Greg Peters, the company said on Wednesday. Verdu was previously Facebook's vice president in charge of working with developers to bring games and other content to Oculus virtual-reality headsets. The idea is to offer video games on Netflix's streaming platform within the next year, according to a person familiar with the situation. The games will appear alongside current fare as a new programming genre -- similar to what Netflix did with documentaries or stand-up specials.