The popular YouTuber and creative coach is on a mission to help one billion people make a living doing what they love. AI might be his key. Filed under Work Culture On his YouTube channel, Chris Do has been helping over 2.4 million subscribers navigate the pitfalls of creative work. A former professor of Sequential Design, he now runs workshops offering guidance on pricing your work, building a personal brand, and improving your portfolio.  And as an Emmy award-winning designer and founder/CEO of The Futur, he’s achieved massive success doing what he loves. Now he wants to scale ..read more

Save time on approvals by viewing feedback from Replay within Pro Tools. Filed under News Product We’ve worked closely with audio and video creators around the world to develop Dropbox Replay. In our research, we’ve heard the same stories—production budgets are getting tighter, timelines are being crunched, and managing feedback on mixes and edits is tough when everyone can’t be in the same room.  That’s why we wanted to ensure that audio engineers, musicians, film composers, and video editors have simple ways to manage feedback on the content they share—and that those solutions ..read more

Using Dropbox and Dropbox Sign, Dr. Leslie Dobson protects confidential content, catalogues every clue, and uncovers details that solve true crimes. Filed under Customer Stories When you’re an empath with an extraordinarily strong BS detector, red flags are hard to ignore. Even as a child, Dr. Leslie Dobson had an intuitive sense for when someone was hiding the truth. “I could always see the elephant in the room,” she recalls. “I noticed adults ignoring immoral behavior, and it drove me insane that people would shove stuff under the rug. I always had this voice in me and a desire to f ..read more

Manatees can be tricky to count—even for trained professionals. But scientists might find some help with a new machine learning method. Manatees gather near Blue Spring. Photo courtesy Save the Manatee The Florida manatee—one of the state’s most beloved creatures—is big (9-10 feet long, 1,000 pounds plus)—and generally slow. The hefty aquatic beasts forage in warm, shallow waters all day in pursuit of an average 100 pounds of seagrass, and have no natural predators. Not even alligators, strangely. You’d think Florida’s marine biologists would know exactly how many manatees are floating ..read more

Machine learning in the field of eco-acoustics is allowing scientists to catalog wildlife where they otherwise couldn’t. Here’s how it could change conservation. Bourhan Yassin. Image courtesy Rainforest Connection To understand what’s happening in the world's remote forests, crucial for both the resident species and the planet's health, we must catalog their contents. The challenge? It's a task that's difficult and expensive to perform manually. Enter acoustic monitoring: by “listening” to the soundscape of a place via autonomous recorders, scientists can gain insights into the presenc ..read more

For one of the world’s leading robotics and AI experts, human beings are the center of the story. Daniela Rus The robots are coming, and Daniela Rus is OK with that. As the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and a MacArthur fellow, Rus has been at the forefront of robotics and AI for decades. Her new book The Heart and the Chip, co-authored with science writer Gregory Mone, argues for a vision of AI and robotics that prioritizes people: “Robots can be designed to filter the repetitive tasks out of our daily lives,” she writes. “By working clos ..read more

2B Living wants to change property management’s bad reputation—and get it out of its paper-filled past. Property management has traditionally been an incredibly hands-on, paperwork-intensive industry. Agents at a management company need to show listings to prospective clients face-to-face. Maintenance must be done on-site. Companies are constantly juggling and closing contracts with owners, agents, and contractors. But Bay Area-based 2B Living is reimagining what a more technology-forward property management company can look like with the help of Dropbox and Dropbox Sign. CEO Brooks Baskin ..read more

Prime Time Palm Beach County uses Dropbox Sign to automate the boring stuff and bring afterschool fun to thousands of kids. Filed under Customer Stories When the bell rang after your last class at school, where did you go? Did you head somewhere to hang out and play sports? Ride your bike until you were called home for dinner? Stay in your room feeling restless and bored? Those hours after school but before bedtime are considered “prime time” for school-age youth because that’s when they have the most opportunity to learn skills they wouldn’t in an ordinary classroom. “Most of the tim ..read more

After growing up with the sounds of Cheyenne, software engineer Michael Running Wolf is now harnessing AI to ensure that language's survival, and beyond. Indigenous languages are facing a steep decline: ninety percent are at risk of not being passed on to younger generations, while seventy percent are spoken by only a handful of individuals, predominantly elders. "Essentially, we're racing against time. Within five to ten years, we risk losing a significant part of the cultural and linguistic heritage in the United States," explains Michael Running Wolf, a software engineer with roots in t ..read more

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