The Byteside Newsletter
💡 Byteside Weekly: Are AI art programs a tool or a cheat?
An AI artwork wins a local art competition. Is that fair? Plus other curated links on digital twins, USB4 Version 2 confusion, the end of SIM cards, and plenty more.
"It's not me, it's the algorithm!"
Executives say they can't stop the trends they're seeing on their platforms. Oh, really?
The Visual Turing Test: a unified VR vision for the future
Showing your working helps us all grasp what we're aiming for.
E3 who?
Reports of E3's death have been greatly exaggerated.
Seeing humanity in all the bot places
The LaMBDA situation is a reminder we're just too good at personification.
The power to know
Things 'everyone knows' usually need to be shared and shared again more often.
Bigger isn't always better
Rolling around at the speed of a brisk walk
A platform of certainty
Knowing there's firm footing ahead makes big ideas easier to pursue.
When tabletop and digital worlds converge
Storytelling through tabletop mechanics
The quality of our questions
Back to basics for the media industry - or is it too late?
Mise-en-scène
Enjoying Japanese cinema through videogames.
How to hack your Netflix profile recommendations
If your profiles are just people's names, you're doing it wrong.
Marvelling at the horizon
Learning more about a game helps deepen the enjoyment
The cost of losing everything
We need to get more emotional to convince people to protect their data
The kids are bopping again... this week
Slang at the speed of meme culture.
Why one cute hamster says everything you need to know about what online learning should be
Online learning needs to be about relationships, not just info dumping, or it is destined to fail to support the messy, real world needs of students.
More "freedom from", please
Why did "freedom to" advocates become so focused on punching down?
Editing on Twitter is a fraught idea
Does that retweet you said you loved still say what it said when you retweeted it?
Search engines are dying
The optimisers are outwitting the engines. Now it's easy to find 'something' but hard to find a specific thing.
Just because we can...
Dyson's new air purifier raises big questions about form, function, and the just plain freaky.
