Images via Hermès Luxury house Hermès hits home with the concept of “ground,” reflecting our connection to the natural world with its 2024 Home Collection, unveiled at Milan Design Week. Read full article ..read more

Video screenshot via Synthesia Gone are the stiff mannequins of yesterday’s chatbots—Synthesia’s new artificial intelligence avatars have shed their poker faces and are learning to emote. Backed by tech giant Nvidia, Synthesia, an AI firm focused on avatar creation, has unveiled a new generation of avatars dubbed Expressive Avatars that can convey a whole spectrum of human emotions based on what you tell them. Read full article ..read more

Image generated on AI It’s high time for a new technique for developing film. Dmitri Tcherbadji, a Canadian web developer with a penchant for quirky photography projects—including a gingerbread camera with a sugar lens—might have just blazed a new trail in alternative film processing. Read full article ..read more

Photo 137583423 © Toxawww | Dreamstime.com Are AI-generated artworks the new “Live, Laugh, Love” posters? Walmart has drawn unwanted attention after it was found retailing art that many suspect isn’t created by a human artist. Read full article ..read more

Images via Disney and Taylor Swift It’s a small world, after all, and you’ll find Swifties even in the Disney universe. Read full article ..read more

Image via The Home Depot Home Depot is once again dusting off the skeleton in its closet—and this time, he’s got a sidekick. Read full article ..read more

Video screenshot via Auktionshaus im Kinsky A long-lost Gustav Klimt portrait has reemerged from the shadows, waltzing its way onto the auction block and fetching a cool €30 million (US$32 million). Titled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, the unfinished masterpiece depicts a young woman with dark hair and is believed to be one of the Austrian symbolist master's final creations before his brush met its final rest in 1918. Read full article ..read more

Video screenshot via Meow.Camera For cat lovers across the globe, Meow.Camera may the purr-fect way to connect with strays through the power of technology. This curious project has quickly clawed its way out of China, where it started, into the hearts of internet users by inviting them to watch and interact with feline friends via live webcams strategically placed in specially designed shelters known as ‘Hello Street Cat Intelligent Stray Cat Management Houses’. Read full article ..read more

Photo 267749345 © Creatoroflove | Dreamstime.com For years, iPad users have relied on third-party apps or Spotlight search for their on-the-go calculations. But that may be changing, and soon, users could be counting themselves lucky! Apple is supposedly developing a dedicated Calculator app for the tablet, slated for release with iPadOS 18 sometime this year. Read full article ..read more

Video screenshot via Prime Video Outsourcing is a pretty common practice, and the animation industry is no stranger to it. However, it appears this involvement may spread even past closed doors. Read full article ..read more