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Chrome can now caption audio and video
Chrome can now caption audio and video
Captions make online content more accessible. If you’re in a noisy environment, trying to keep the volume down, or are part of the 466 million people in the world who are deaf or hard of hearing, having captions lets you follow along to whatever content you are watching — whether it’s viral feta pasta videos, breaking news or a scientist discussing their latest research.  Unfortunately, captions aren’t always available for every piece of content. Now with Live Caption on Chrome, you can automatically generate real-time captions for media with audio on your browser. It works across social and video sites, podcasts and radio content, personal video libraries (such as Google Photos), embedded video players, and most web-based video or audio chat services.
#accessibility#cooltech#audio
·blog.google·
Chrome can now caption audio and video
Babylon.js: Powerful, Beautiful, Simple, Open - Web-Based 3D At Its Best
Babylon.js: Powerful, Beautiful, Simple, Open - Web-Based 3D At Its Best
Our mission is to create one of the most powerful, beautiful, and simple Web rendering engines in the world. Our passion is to make it completely open and free for everyone. We are artists, developers, creators, and dreamers and we want to make it as simple as possible to enable everyone to bring their ideas to life. With this new version of Babylon.js, we set out to make it even easier to develop with. From a ton of new tools, to improved workflows and features, new documentation and more, it is our sincere hope that Babylon.js 4.2 will make your development process faster and easier while unlocking new simple ways to work.
#3d#graphics#javascript#library#code#cooltech
·babylonjs.com·
Babylon.js: Powerful, Beautiful, Simple, Open - Web-Based 3D At Its Best
CryptPad: Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source
CryptPad: Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source
CryptPad is built to enable collaboration. It synchronizes changes to documents in real time. Because all data is encrypted, the service and its administrators have no way of seeing the content being edited and stored. CryptPad provides a full-fledged office suite with all the tools necessary for productive collaboration. Applications include: Rich Text, Spreadsheets, Code/Markdown, Kanban, Slides, Whiteboard and Polls. The applications are complemented by a set of collaboration features such as chat, contacts, color by author (code/markdown), and comments with mentions (rich text).
#collaboration#cooltech#open
·cryptpad.fr·
CryptPad: Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source
What will it be like when we go back to the office?
What will it be like when we go back to the office?
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, what will a pandemic sabbatical do to your feelings about the office? You may miss the way you set up your cubicle, recall fondly the water cooler conversations, or can’t wait to use the office printer again. But for as long as COVID-19 remains a threat, and possibly even after most people are vaccinated, office life will be very different from what it was before the global pandemic. To understand what that might feel like, we spoke to some experts on work and workspaces who predicted that social distancing measures and hybrid work models are here to stay. Walk through our simulations below to experience what going back to the old/new office might be like. Make sure to avoid contact with others along the way!
#netnarr#cooltech
·graphics.reuters.com·
What will it be like when we go back to the office?
Rudrabha/Wav2Lip: This repository contains the codes of "A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In the Wild", published at ACM Multimedia 2020.
Rudrabha/Wav2Lip: This repository contains the codes of "A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In the Wild", published at ACM Multimedia 2020.
This code is part of the paper: A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In the Wild published at ACM Multimedia 2020.
#machinelearning#speech#ai#cooltech
·github.com·
Rudrabha/Wav2Lip: This repository contains the codes of "A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In the Wild", published at ACM Multimedia 2020.
Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python — Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python
Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python — Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python
The Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python textbook offers an introduction to the programming language Python that is specifically designed for humanities students and scholars with no previous programming experience. It demonstrates how Python can be used to study cultural materials such as song lyrics, short stories, newspaper articles, tweets, Reddit posts, and film screenplays. It introduces computational methods such as web scraping, APIs, topic modeling, Named Entity Recognition (NER), network analysis, and mapping. Interactive Code Most of the pages in the book are Jupyter notebook files that can be downloaded and run with Jupyter. Click the download button at the top of the page to download the .ipynb file. The Jupyter notebooks can also be opened and run in the cloud without any prior configuration by clicking the launch button . See How To Interact With This Book for more information.
#ebooks#python#teaching#cooltech
·melaniewalsh.github.io·
Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python — Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python
The Met Cloisters | Primer - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met Cloisters | Primer - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Atop a tall hill in the northern tip of Manhattan, at the end of long, winding wooded pathways, with stunning views across the Hudson River to the Palisades, and a short walk from the 1 and A subways, you’ll find The Met’s second location, called The Met Cloisters. During the Middle Ages, cloisters were places to reflect and recharge. This Museum of medieval art takes its cue from these tranquil spaces. The Museum’s construction began in 1933 in upper Manhattan at the northern end of Fort Tryon Park. Visiting is like traveling through time: medieval architecture is incorporated into a modern building purpose-built to evoke the Middle Ages. Nowhere else in the United States can you find the combination of such stunning examples of original medieval European architecture, exquisite gardens, and marvelous works of art. Here you’ll discover that the so-called “dark ages” were actually a bright period of innovation, imagination, and creativity. Linger awhile and explore three paths through The Cloisters. You might even catch a glimpse of a magical creature—the elusive unicorn.
#cooltech#museum#interactive#web2storytelling
·metmuseum.org·
The Met Cloisters | Primer - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Interactive SVG + JS map - DEV
Interactive SVG + JS map - DEV
Now and then, on several web applications projects, I need to use maps to display data, sometimes it's a world map, sometimes a country map with regions and provinces, often I need a click-on-region event handler and I always need to display some data on the map as colors or numbers. You know what I'm talking about right? Not a Google Maps map, but a simple and plain map with country borders. Of course there are libraries for this purpose, also free ones, but not so many and they're pretty heavy as they bring a lot of functionalities, whereas I just need a simple map, so I like to make my own map, also because it's fun 🙂. Let's make it!
#cooltech#graphics#maps
·dev.to·
Interactive SVG + JS map - DEV
12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive
12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive
In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He assembled the photos in the artists' book Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which challenged how people thought about Los Angeles, art and photography. Ruscha and his collaborators returned again and again to Sunset and various other Los Angeles streets documenting the cityscape for more than fifty-five years. And they continue to record Los Angeles’s thoroughfares today. The resulting archive of Los Angeles evolving through time has remained mostly-unseen for decades; it is so vast that even Ruscha and his team have not seen many of the images. The Getty has digitized more than 60,000 negatives from this collection of more than a half a million total images. You can use the interface here to explore the collection across time and space.
#photography#history#cooltech
·12sunsets.getty.edu·
12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive
I open-sourced my portfolio + blog template built with Gatsby & Tailwind - DEV
I open-sourced my portfolio + blog template built with Gatsby & Tailwind - DEV
Hey everyone! I recently open-sourced Devfolio, which is a personal portfolio + blog template I built with GatsbyJS and TailwindCSS. I wanted to create something that was completely production-ready out of the box (you just edit one config file and deploy), but also easy to customize and extend if you wanted to take it further. Also, because it's built with Gatsby, the final result is fairly fast.
#portfolio#cooltech
·dev.to·
I open-sourced my portfolio + blog template built with Gatsby & Tailwind - DEV
unDraw - Open source illustrations for any idea
unDraw - Open source illustrations for any idea
Open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create. Create better designed websites, products and applications. Browse to find the images that fit your messaging, automagically customise the color to match your brand and use it as a normal image, embedded code or directly in your design workflow.
#icons#resources#opencontent#cooltech
·undraw.co·
unDraw - Open source illustrations for any idea
Introduction - SpreadAPI
Introduction - SpreadAPI
SpreadAPI is a free Google Apps Script that allows you to add REST API to any spreadsheet in Google Sheets in a few minutes. The API can be accessed over HTTPS from back-end as well as front-end apps.
#cooltech#api#spreadsheet#Google
·mateusz-zielinski-2.gitbook.io·
Introduction - SpreadAPI
Obsidian
Obsidian
A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
#markdown#notes#software#cooltech
·obsidian.md·
Obsidian
What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS) | About Feeds
What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS) | About Feeds
Use web feeds to subscribe to websites and get the latest content in one place. Feeds put you in control. It’s like subscribing to a podcast, or following a company on Facebook. You don’t need to pay or hand over your email address. You get the latest content without having to visit lots of sites, and without cluttering up your inbox. Had enough? Easy: unsubscribe from the feed. You just need a special app called a newsreader. This site explains how to get started.
#feeds#tutorial#rss#cooltech
·aboutfeeds.com·
What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS) | About Feeds
eLabFTW - free open source ELN
eLabFTW - free open source ELN
a free and open source electronic lab notebook Designed by researchers, for researchers, with usability in mind. With eLabFTW you get a secure, modern and compliant system to track your experiments efficiently but also manage your lab with a powerful and flexible database. If you do experimental research, then eLabFTW is for you. Whatever your field is. It is also well suited for universities, tinkerers or biotech companies.
#opensource#cooltech
·elabftw.net·
eLabFTW - free open source ELN
Quotebacks
Quotebacks
Quotebacks is a tool that makes it easy to grab snippets of text from around the web and convert them into embeddable blockquote web components.
#blogging#cooltech
·quotebacks.net·
Quotebacks
You Gen #9 by samplereality
You Gen #9 by samplereality
This is Chapter 1 of You Gen #9, a counterfactual game that imagines the invention of gene-editing technology in the 1920s. It was the height of the eugenics movement in the United States and your bloodline is considered tainted. You just don't know it yet.
#interactive#fiction#web2storytelling#cooltech
·samplereality.itch.io·
You Gen #9 by samplereality
How to build a website using Gatsby & Airtable in 30 mins - DEV
How to build a website using Gatsby & Airtable in 30 mins - DEV
We all love Airtable for various reasons and use cases. In these times of COVID, we have seen many websites built using Airtable to solve different issues. Popular ones include candor.co, etc.. Airtable has a killer feature "share view", where you can share the view of your table and embed it on your website using a simple iframe. I have also used the same feature for building the first version of Startups vs COVID - a live repository of funds, support & resources for startups tackling COVID-19.
#code#cooltech
·dev.to·
How to build a website using Gatsby & Airtable in 30 mins - DEV
What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
"The only thing to fear is fear itself" was stupid advice. Sure, don't hoard toilet paper – but if policymakers fear fear itself, they'll downplay real dangers to avoid "mass panic". Fear's not the problem, it's how we channel our fear. Fear gives us energy to deal with dangers now, and prepare for dangers later. Honestly, we (Marcel, epidemiologist + Nicky, art/code) are worried. We bet you are, too! That's why we've channelled our fear into making these playable simulations, so that you can channel your fear into understanding: The Last Few Months (epidemiology 101, SEIR model, R & R0) The Next Few Months (lockdowns, contact tracing, masks) The Next Few Years (loss of immunity? no vaccine?) This guide (published May 1st, 2020. click this footnote!→1) is meant to give you hope and fear. To beat COVID-19 in a way that also protects our mental & financial health, we need optimism to create plans, and pessimism to create backup plans. As Gladys Bronwyn Stern once said, “The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” So, buckle in: we're about to experience some turbulence.
#science#explainer#interactive#cooltech
·ncase.me·
What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations