e480 — Time to Face the Music

Games At Work dot Biz

Photo by Blaz Photo on Unsplash

Published 9 September 2024

Co-hosts Michael and Michael start things off by reflecting on last week’s episode with a couple of articles related to last week’s episode on music streaming royalties.

Next up, is a listener link on MiniMax, a new text to video GenAI capability, which sparks (✨) a conversation on individualized customized entertainment. After touching on the Brave browser, the co-hosts marvel at a mycelia powered robot – another listener link. Michael and Michael are reminded of how trees communicate with one another – check out the links below for Pando and the book Michael M couldn’t remember at the time, The Overstory by Richard Powers.

Then, some speculation on the upcoming Apple Event next week – Ready to Glow. Michael R points out that the Apple Watch announcement was 10 years ago, which is hard to believe.

Rounding out this episode is the announcement between Nike and LEGO which is fun to speculate on what this partnership may bring, and an MQTT / NodeRed enabled garage door home automation solution that does not require sharing data to any cloud.

What other biohybrid robots have you heard of? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[e-mail] (our home for now) and let us know!

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Selected Links

Streaming Heist

New York Times article: The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10 Million Was Real.

Ars Technica article: FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

Games at Work e479: Listen Up, Outlaws!

ABA Journal post: Prominent 1970s musicians sue music companies for copyright infringement

AI

Tom’s Guide article: Forget Sora — MiniMax is a new realistic AI video generator and it’s seriously impressive

Games at Work e478: Doomed, I Say!

Brave

Futurism article: Scientists Grew a Mushroom Into This Robot to Act As Its Brain

Cornell Chronicle Article: Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms

Wikipedia article: Pando (tree)

Smithsonian Magazine article: Do Trees Talk to Each Other?

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

Apple

Macworld article: Ready to Glow! iPhone, Apple Watch, and everything else to expect at Apple’s event

Sixcolors post: Apple’s September event: The delight will be in the details

Apple Events

Random Thoughts blog post: WWDC 2024 Impressions and insights

Miscellany

Nike press release: Nike and the LEGO Group Unite to Elevate the Power of Sport and Creative Play

LEGO Group press release: The LEGO Group and NIKE, Inc. unite to elevate the power of creative play and sport

acquired.fm season 13, episode 1: Nike

Ars Technica article: I added a ratgdo to my garage door, and I don’t know why I waited so long

Ratgdo