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Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
www.bbc.com/news/technology-54063648
Netflix’s chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.
But Reed Hastings, who founded the platform, also said its 8,600 employees would not have to return to the office until most of them had received an approved coronavirus vaccine.
And he predicted most people would continue to work from home on one day a week even after the pandemic was over.
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VIM – the fastest way to interact with the biggest BIM projects
VIM is a real-time 3D file format purpose built for AEC’s modern demands.
VIM offers a modern, efficient, and compact 3D data interchange open format to quickly transport design data and geometry from Revit and other BIM sources such as real-time engines and 3D editors.
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AI and the Law – CartoonBrew.com : Lionsgate signs deal with AI company Runway, hoping that AI can eliminate storyboard artists and VFX crews
The goal is to reduce costs by replacing traditional storyboard artists and VFX crews with AI-generated “cinematic video.” Lionsgate hopes to use this technology for both pre- and post-production processes. While the company promotes the cost-saving potential, the creative community has raised concerns, as Runway is currently facing a lawsuit over copyright infringement.
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Mysterious animation wins best illusion of 2011 – Motion silencing illusion
The 2011 Best Illusion of the Year uses motion to render color changes invisible, and so reveals a quirk in our visual systems that is new to scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_silencing_illusion
“It is a really beautiful effect, revealing something about how our visual system works that we didn’t know before,” said Daniel Simons, a professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Simons studies visual cognition, and did not work on this illusion. Before its creation, scientists didn’t know that motion had this effect on perception, Simons said.
A viewer stares at a speck at the center of a ring of colored dots, which continuously change color. When the ring begins to rotate around the speck, the color changes appear to stop. But this is an illusion. For some reason, the motion causes our visual system to ignore the color changes. (You can, however, see the color changes if you follow the rotating circles with your eyes.)
