Mollywood (Macao-Hollywood) Listed: China Will Build an “Eastern Hollywood”
Yesterday, the “China Mollywood” project, co-sponsored by hundreds of artists from Chinese film and television entertainment industry, was officially released and launched at Xianghe Guohua Film and Television Base in China. ...
According to the organizer, this new film and television landmark, headquartered in Macao and critically acclaimed as “Eastern Hollywood,” is jointly sponsored by more than 100 renowned Chinese entertainment industry giants including Wang Haige, Jackie Chan, Yu Dong, Gong Yu, Sammo Hung, Wen Jun, Liu Jiang, Chen Baoguo, Gaowa Siqin, Gong Hanlin. Moreover, Mollywood will be built into another cultural industry cluster with the output value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future for the diversified development of Macao, China.
Based on the film industry, music industry, e-commerce and smart technologies, the project will build a comprehensive ecosystem as a “platform+content+data+community” model, and create a “global technology and film culture center in the new era of intelligence.” Succeeding Hollywood and Bollywood, it will be another world film, music, fashion production and communication hub. Meanwhile, it will also become an experimental base for the combination of technology and film and television.
40+ Resources For Bringing AR/VR To The Classroom
[PhilNote: this is a list of general use tools and specific topic tools.]
Do you work within or interested in the education industry and looking to bring VR/AR to the classroom? In this blog, you’ll find a collection of links to FREE apps plus much more!
See the full story here: https://www.vrfocus.com/2020/06/40-resources-for-bringing-ar-vr-to-the-classroom/
Seeing isn’t always believing: Google starts fact-checking images
The fact-check label will appear on any image that is included in an article that fact-checks a photo or another claim. A larger preview of the photo will show a short summary of the fact-check and direct users to its source.
Google’s efforts are the first widespread initiative to try to fact-check images, said Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation specialist at the Wilson Center and author of the forthcoming book “How to Lose the Information War.”
Seeing manipulated images and video can be a lot more convincing to people than disinformation in text, Jankowicz said, and she’s hopeful that Google’s labels will at least cause people to think before they post.
Google said it is launching the feature fully this week.
See the full story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/22/google-fact-check-images/#comments-wrapper
My triplets had coronavirus anxiety — so I taught them how to do science
Although the study would be small, rushed and nowhere near the quality threshold for peer review, I saw it as an opportunity to teach my children about the scientific method, and to address their coronavirus anxiety head-on. We devised an experiment in which people would hear messages from four sources about preventing the spread of COVID-19. We decided that the sources would be a group of health-care workers, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, social media and a fictitious politician. For an educator such as myself, explaining the experimental set-up to seven-year-olds after years of teaching undergraduates was an eye-opening experience.
Turning my kids’ anxiety into curiosity was one of the most rewarding experiences I have had as a scientist.
See the full story here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01868-7
AirPods updated with automatic switching and a new ‘Spatial Audio’ feature
Apple has announced new features coming to its AirPods earbuds at WWDC: automatic switching between devices and a new “Spatial Audio” feature for 3D sound on its AirPods Pro earbuds.
The new automatic switching feature is coming to the AirPods Pro, second-generation AirPods, Powerbeats, Powerbeats Pro, and Beats Solo Pro in a firmware update, and will automatically switch audio inputs based on which Apple device you’re using through your iCloud account. For example, if you’re listening to something on your iPhone and then start playing a video on your laptop, the audio feed will automatically switch over to your computer. Or if you answer a phone call on your iPhone, your AirPods will automatically switch from your computer.
Additionally, Apple announced a new “Spatial Audio” feature, which will only be coming to its AirPods Pro earbuds. The new feature will offer 3D, surround sound-style audio on your AirPods Pro to replicate a “movie theater experience” and will constantly recalibrate based on the position of your head to whatever device you’re using.
Apple didn’t say when the new AirPods features would be rolling out.
See the full story here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299362/apple-airpods-pro-update-automatic-switching-spatial-audio-wwdc-2020
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
The shafts are vast, each more than 5 metres deep and 10 metres in diameter. Approximately 20 have been found and there may have been more than 30.
He added: “I can’t emphasise enough the effort that would have gone in to digging such large shafts with tools of stone, wood and bone.”
But then these are the same people who also built Stonehenge, dragging bluestones to the site from south-west Wales about 150 miles away.
Henry Chapman, professor of archaeology at Birmingham University, described it as “an incredible new monument”, and Richard Bates, a geoscientist at St Andrews University, said it offered “an insight to the past that shows an even more complex society than we could ever imagine”.
Culture minister praises BTS for providing a way forward to K-pop
BTS proved its brand power as one of the world's top-grossing touring groups with a successful paid online concert on June 14. A maximum number of simultaneous users estimated at 756,600 watched the live online concert from a special studio. Big Hit said it was the largest paid online concert in the world. The content and technology of BTS' paid online concert set a new precedent in the global music industry.
"I think using advanced technology to create differentiated and high-quality digital works that cannot be compared to other countries will be a shortcut to the success or failure of Hallyu (Korean cultural wave) in the future," Park said. "We need to go beyond simple delivery and make it a better cultural product by utilizing advanced digital technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality."
See the full story here: http://www.ajudaily.com/view/20200619173545418