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 Apple's HomePod is a masterpiece of audio engineering and my absolute favorite smart speaker. I love its design, AirPlay, HandOff, and incredible audio performance. However, did you know aside from audio like music and podcasts, you can also use your HomePod to fill a space with ambient background noise from the ocean, a forest, or even just pure white noise?Apple first added Ambient Sounds to the HomePod a few years ago. Essentially, your HomePod can accept commands to play a total of seven different ambient sounds.…

The rise of always-on streaming threatens to reduce ambient to a genre of convenience: palliative soundscapes to study and relax to. Tim Hecker has other ideas. Rather than distract or soothe, the veteran laptop composer’s latest reflects our jaundiced reality – full of aural pollution, oil splatter and other nasty stuff. Like the most wholesome ambient works, No Highs is immersive and oceanic. Unlike them, it is not somewhere you would want to bathe.The artwork for No HighsThe record opens with a warning – an arrhythmic…

Convert your normal monitor to be an Ambient Monitor with lights changing to suit the colours currently on screen. Using Python and RGB lights, this is a tutorial to show how to enhance your film and gaming experience.Read All Convert your normal monitor to be an Ambient Monitor with lights changing to suit the colours currently on screen. Using Python and RGB lights, this is a tutorial to show how to enhance your film and gaming experience.Read All FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial…

Edward Larry Gordon wasn’t the only broke musician in New York City in 1974 who found himself at a pawn shop, hocking his guitar to pay rent. But who else followed a flash of divine inspiration and instead walked out carrying an obscure type of zither? It would prove a sliding doors moment that decided the course of Gordon’s life.“This inner guidance within me – this beautiful, clear, loving guidance – said, ‘Don’t take the money, swap the guitar for the autoharp in the window’,” says Gordon from his apartment in Harlem.…

Is ambient computing pushing hardware devices to future extinction? Ambient computing is a broad term used to describe a setting where smart devices, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data, and human activity all work together to produce a result without the need for human command or interaction. Moving away from static, pre-established workflows, control scripts, and operational procedures is the idea. Instead, it focuses on enabling undetectable, synchronized, and symbiotic computer actions alongside…

YouTube recently announced a number of changes to its video-watching interface. One of these changes is a new feature known as Ambient Mode. In this guide, we’ll go over exactly what Ambient Mode on YouTube is and show you how to enable or disable it. What is Ambient Mode on YouTube? Ambient Mode is basically a lighting effect that surrounds a given YouTube video with a soft, glowing light that usually reflects the colors featured in the video itself. The effect kind of resembles the glow of a television screen in a…

Should sound mixers be concerned about Davinci Resolve’s AI-powered audio features’ ability to clean dialogue? Do you picture sci-fi aliens trying to murder Dave, bizarre images created by Dall-E that give you the itch, or magic when you think of artificial intelligence (or AI)? Blackmagic Design has released a new version of DaVinci Resolve 18 that includes a number of new capabilities, most notably new AI-based tools for isolating and leveling off recorded dialogue. New vertical video formats are also…

Image: Erkan/Adobe Stock Ambient computing is a concept which is simultaneously both easy and convoluted to explain. The easy explanation is that it involves using technology without a hands-on approach requiring no manual intervention to interact with a computer or technological resource. The more convoluted explanation is that ambient computing entails humans using back-end technology which is physically present or on our persons and which operates independently using principles such as artificial…

YouTube is celebrating its 17th birthday with a “small” makeover for the mobile app as well as the web interface. The new look features a “cleaner, more lively design” with some modern UI elements, enabling a more immersive viewing experience. We are also getting a few new features.The latest YouTube redesign begins with a splash of color up top. It uses “dynamic color sampling” to tint the screen space around the video player to match the video. The status bar above the video player and the area below it, where you find…

Last updated: October 25th, 2022 at 06:46 UTC+02:00 The YouTube app is getting a new design and a slew of new features to improve the user experience. According to the company’s official blog, the YouTube app on Android and iOS is getting updated with a new look, a pinch-to-zoom feature, precise seeking, ambient mode, a dark mode, and new buttons. YouTube’s pinch-to-zoom feature lets users zoom in on a video, allowing users to see more details. Apparently, this feature was available as a test for Premium users in…