Now You Can Really Play The World’s Tiniest Violin
This speed project from Design I/O uses Google’s Project Soli – Alpha Dev Kit combined with the excellent machine learning tool Wekinator and openFrameworks to detect small movements that look like someone playing a tiny violin and translate that to the volume and playback of a violin solo.
Here’s a little ditty on the hidden onomastic pitfalls of the United Kingdom
This cool song from Reginald Pikedevant’s YouTube channel will walk you through some of the strange sound-spelling pairings that will confuse us outside the UK, but easy to say if you live there.
Guy Moves In With Girlfriend, And Hilariously Tweets The Experience
Twitter user Arthur Dayne recently moved in with his girlfriend.In a monstrous series of tweets, I think he’s figured out the secret to life’s success, and it’s women.
Spotify has over 100 million active users
Spotify is the first music-streaming service to reach 100 million monthly active users, the company confirmed to The Telegraph today. The announcement comes three months after the service reached 30 million paid subscribers and raised $1 billion in debt financing for its fight against Apple Music.
Tumblr to launch live video on Tuesday
Twitter has Periscope. Amazon has Twitch. Google has YouTube’s live streaming. And Facebook has Facebook Live. Now, Tumblr is getting into live video, too. The company is preparing to launch a new live video feature on its service, beginning tomorrow, which will introduce a series of live broadcasts as well as a user-facing feature that could compete with Facebook Live, among other things.
British people increasingly turning to subscription services, research finds
Carried out by YouGov for e-commerce firm Zuora, the research reckons that 13.9 million people in the UK are now signed up to video-on-demand services. In music, it estimates that 5.9 million are signed up to Spotify in one way or another (which sounds a little low), and 2.9 million are currently hooked into Apple Music (which sounds a little high).
You Can Watch “Mean Girls” In Toronto With Lindsay Lohan
On June 22 in Toronto, you can, in fact, sit with us.
Written by the incomparable Tina Fey, Mean Girlsis a funny, clever satire of high school cliques, starring Lindsay Lohan and Ontario’s own Rachel McAdams.
See La Lohan in her career defining tour de force performance, as we so desperately want to remember her. (Those freckles!) Unleash your inner Regina, Gretchen or Karen and bring your fellow Plastics for a très cute movie date under the stars on the pier.
Join TIFF for an online movie party on an interactive platform, featuring some special guests! Connect at synaptop.com via video and text with stars and fellow fans, from wherever you are.
The screening will be live-commentated by Mean Girls’ star and gay icon Daniel Franzese (of Mean Girls and HBO’s Looking).