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Comment Check out Jia Zhangke's Dance on youtube (Score 4, Interesting) 124

FYI Jia Zhangke is one of China's top directors. He won the Golden Lion in Venice, and several other accolades. Typically he makes subtle films.
Out of curiosity he spent a few days with an AI video generation tool, and released a short film in in time for Chinese New Year.
You can see it here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He made a short meditation about creativity and identity, showing himself and an AI version of himself (though, of course, both instances were AI generated). It features images from a few of his movies, but you can enjoy without having seen those.
I was initially very much against AI films, but this short film shows what a consummate storyteller can do with the tool. Worth 5 minutes of your time.

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 207

Colleague of mine bought a young 2nd hand VW EV (ID 5 if I remember well), in Luxembourg from a VW dealer and drove it to his home in Belgium. Very nice car, and it was priced very attractively. Looks big enough inside for you and your family. Similarly spacious as my Y.

Comment doesn't have to be bad (Score 1) 218

I thought the same about brand specific UIs before I got my Y. But must be said that I don't really miss CarPlay in it. The Y has a nice UI that is more sophisticated than the CarPlay UI. Yes I do play a little per month for connectivity, but not much really, and it allows me to see live traffic conditions in the gps or play my music and podcasts even if I don't have my phone with me.

Comment More interesting and surprising: the designers (Score 1) 131

Surprisingly, it will not be a Pininfarina design, rather Ferrari asked...
Marc Newson and Jony Ive's Lovefrom!
These are celebrated designers, however they have to my knowledge never designed a car.
It looks like Ferrari really wanted to have a blue sky approach for this important new car.

About the sound: check a YouTube test of the Lotus Evija EV hypercar. It sounds like a jetfighter engine, without fake sound generation. I can imagine Ferrari being able to design a cool sound for their car.

Submission + - SWIFT launches a global financial blockchain (reuters.com)

Camembert writes: In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel with its traditional network. Interestingly, unlike XRP, there is no native coin, rather it aims for interoperability (probably using Chainlink with whom the company did case studies for a few years already). There is also a strong focus on regulatory compliance. There are several news articles and opinion pieces on this event, I linked the Reuters article.

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