Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Imagine adding AI so the cans on the shelf can talk you into buying the product.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91145685/why-pepsi-turned-a-special-edition-of-its-can-into-a-digital-billboard

Why Pepsi turned a special edition of its can into a digital billboard

Pepsi’s latest can isn’t for cola—it’s for content.

The soft drink brand unveiled the Pepsi Smart Can at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, but it doesn’t contain any actual Pepsi. In fact, it’s not supposed to get wet.

Instead, the 16 oz. connected can is made with a digital screen, movement sensors, and state-of-the-art sound technology to create what Pepsi is calling a “CANvas” for self expression. In other words, it’s a high-tech piece of dynamic marketing.





Trends…

https://fpf.org/blog/top-six-major-privacy-enforcement-trends-a-u-s-legislation-retrospective/

TOP SIX MAJOR PRIVACY ENFORCEMENT TRENDS: A U.S. LEGISLATION RETROSPECTIVE

Enforcement activity intensifies as U.S. consumer privacy laws continue to evolve and come into effect. In 2023 and 2024 alone, there have been dozens of enforcement actions at the U.S. federal and state levels, some of which reveal or touch on significant throughlines for privacy policy issues, such as what constitutes a privacy violation or the expanding regulatory interest in the risks of collecting, inferring, and using sensitive data. This Retrospective focuses on six major enforcement trends that have recently spoken to key questions or policy issues in the privacy landscape:





Will we become too lazy to read?

https://venturebeat.com/ai/elevenlabs-launches-ios-app-that-turns-any-text-into-audio-narration-with-ai/

ElevenLabs launches iOS app that turns ‘any’ text into audio narration with AI

Unlike the full ElevenLabs website which contains a variety of different AI models and features including text-to-speech, converting speech into other voices and languages, AI dubbing, and AI sound effects, the new ElevenLabs iOS app is more narrowly tailored and focused specifically on converting text files or links from the web into audio narration that the user can listen to while on the go, or doing something else with their eyes and hands, e.g. barbecuing, making dinner, putting away the dishes, etc.





Darn. Another time waster…

https://www.bespacific.com/public-domain-comic-book-archive/

Public domain comic book archive

Comic Book + / Total 42,888: “Welcome to the main page of our massive public domain comic book archive. True gems to download or read online. So many, it is impossible to read them all! The majority of our books belong to what has been termed the Golden Age of Comics. This began primarily with newspaper reprints and then “went up, up and away” with the introduction of Superman. Styles changed, new genres superseded old and then a new era dawned, the Silver Age of Comics, of which we also have many examples. For what was once a massive industry, the publishers and their successors often took little care of their work. Many of the comics were either not copyrighted correctly, or the copyright was not renewed. Through this oversight thousands of comic books lapsed into what is called the “Public Domain”, which means that there is now no legal owner. That is why we can bring you all of these FREE and LEGALLY! So take our word for it, if you browse around you are certain to spend a great many happy hours here!..”





Tools & Techniques. Could be useful.

https://www.makeuseof.com/2d-to-3d-image-ai-tools/

Turn Your 2D Images Into 3D With These AI Tools



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