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- Pixar’s John Lasseter to leave Disney following sexual harassment complaints
- Why repeating words sound like music to your brain
- Facebook job postings suggest it’ll start monitoring fake news
- HBO orders a pilot for a Game of Thrones prequel
- Uber wants to patent a system that knows when you’re drunk
- Jeffrey Wright says his Westworld character is ‘based on a Reddit user’
- Gmail for Android now lets you customize swipe actions
- If serpentwithfeet is the future of music, maybe humanity will win after all
- Porsche renames its all-electric Mission E vehicle the Taycan
- Here are all the phones with headphone jacks you can buy right now
| Pixar’s John Lasseter to leave Disney following sexual harassment complaints Posted: 08 Jun 2018 04:17 PM PDT  John Lasseter, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer, will leave both companies by the end of 2018, following revelations last year that he sexually harassed employees, according to The New York Times. Lasseter has been on a leave of absence from the studio since November, when he first acknowledged what he worded as "missteps" that left his employees feeling "disrespected and uncomfortable." In the months since, media organizations and entertainment industry critics widely speculated on whether he could return to Pixar, or whether Disney would force him to resign. Lasseter was one of Pixar Animation Studios' first employees, and he directed its earliest hits — including Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Toy Story 2.... |
| Why repeating words sound like music to your brain Posted: 08 Jun 2018 03:08 PM PDT  Repeating spoken words is a technique familiar to music buffs — the rhythm of the repetition feels like song. Now, scientists think they can explain why. It turns out it has to do with how our brains process language. For a paper published today in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers used an auditory illusion called the speech-to-song illusion to investigate how rhythms emerge from repeated phrases. They think it has to do with how we interpret language as words, and as syllables. When words are repeated, we stop paying as much attention to them, and our sense of the syllables' beat takes over. The speech-to-song illusion takes a string of words, and plays them on a loop. Eventually, the words shift from sounding like speech to something... |
| Facebook job postings suggest it’ll start monitoring fake news Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Facebook is looking to hire "news credibility specialists" to presumably sift through news stories to determine what's real and what's fake. The company posted two job listings yesterday, one for an English speaker and another for a Spanish speaker. Although the roles are now called "News Publisher Specialist," the hyperlink to the posts calls them a "News Credibility Specialist." Facebook appears to have made edits to the posts after media outlets picked up on them. The job postings used to say that the company was looking to hire people with "a passion for journalism, who believe in Facebook's mission of making the world more connected." The Guardian reports that applicants were told that they'd be tasked with "developing a deep... |
| HBO orders a pilot for a Game of Thrones prequel Posted: 08 Jun 2018 01:53 PM PDT  HBO is beginning to plot what comes after Game of Thrones when it concludes next year. The network has been working on succession plans for the show for over a year, with five potential projects in the works, and it just ordered a pilot for one of them: a prequel that takes place thousands of years before the present show, from series author George R.R. Martin and Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service writer Jane Goldman. "Only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros' history to the true origin of the White Walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend… it's not the story we think we know," reads HBO's log line for the project. Given the massive scale and history of the world, there's a lot of... |
| Uber wants to patent a system that knows when you’re drunk Posted: 08 Jun 2018 01:46 PM PDT  Anybody who's ever shared an Uber with a drunken stranger knows that it can be a loud, tiresome, and downright gross experience. Right now, there isn't much that drivers (and carpoolers) can do to steer clear of these sorts of people, but artificial intelligence could be a solution. According to a patent application spotted by CNN, Uber has drawn up a plan for AI that detects a user's drunken behavior to accommodate them before they get into the backseat. The system, described by members of Uber's Trust & Safety team in 2016 and published yesterday, tracks how someone typically uses Uber's app: how quickly they type (and with how many typos), how precisely they click on buttons, their walking speed, and the way their phone is typically... |
| Jeffrey Wright says his Westworld character is ‘based on a Reddit user’ Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:36 PM PDT  Spoilers ahead for Westworld season 1. HBO's Westworld is about robots, power, and the nature of humanity, among other things. In season 2 of the show, Westworld park programming head Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) is a cornerstone character, the audience's window into understanding what's going on in a number of plots. As he pieces together his faulty memories, the viewers are putting together clues to understand the larger story. But as season 1 revealed, Bernard is a host — a fully humanoid robot — which complicates both his memory issues and his identity issues. Created as an artificial replica of Westworld co-creator Arnold Weber, Bernard entered the story not knowing he was a host. Last Friday, Wright sat down at New York's Split... |
| Gmail for Android now lets you customize swipe actions Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:36 PM PDT  Google's been delivering a bunch of overdue updates to Gmail over the past few weeks, and one more arrived in the latest update on Android: the ability to customize what happens when you swipe an email to the left or right. The addition was spotted by Android Police. Previously, swiping an email in your inbox would archive it, no matter what. That was useful, but not nearly as useful as it could be, since swipe gestures can really help you clear out your inbox so long as their actions fit with the way you work. Swipes have been a fixture of mobile email apps for several years now, and many of them offer users the ability to customize what they do, so it's an overdue addition from Google. Gmail's swipe... |
| If serpentwithfeet is the future of music, maybe humanity will win after all Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT  This Björk-endorsed singer's baroque, queer, devastating R&B is the brazenly tender music the world needs right now |
| Porsche renames its all-electric Mission E vehicle the Taycan Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:05 PM PDT  Last year, Porsche unveiled the production version of the Mission E — an all-electric four-door that looked like a worthy rival to Tesla's Model S. But rather than stick with that alluring and mysterious moniker, the Volkswagen-owned performance automaker opted for a new name: the Taycan. The name, which was announced at an event celebrating the automaker's 70th anniversary, roughly translates to "lively young horse" in German, a reference to the leaping horse at the heart of the company's crest. Also, it's apparently pronounced "tie-con," but it's probably already doomed to a lifetime of mispronunciations. "Our new electric sports car is strong and dependable; it's a vehicle that can consistently cover... |
| Here are all the phones with headphone jacks you can buy right now Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:09 PM PDT  It's notoriously difficult to find a smartphone with a headphone jack. Many manufacturers, from Apple to Google to Xiaomi, are omitting headphone jacks from their phones, instead opting for reversible ports like Lightning and USB-C. This is all despite the fact that living without a headphone jack makes it harder to do simple things like listening to music. It's tricky to find headphones that support the new ports, harder to find adapters that compensate for the lack of a 3.5mm audio jack, and even harder still to listen to music in a car if you don't want to go wireless. But it's not all bad news: despite the war on ports, new phones are being released with headphones jacks. There's a wide variety of phones ranging from high-end to... |
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