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Sunday, February 25, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

The POSEC Method Is a Better Way to Structure Your Time

Lifehacker: Managing your time throughout the day is key to getting everything accomplished, but it’s easier said than done. Try the POSEC method, which mirrors Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs to give you a daily outline that leaves room for fulfillment—which, in turn, will keep you motivated.

Stockholm Furniture Fair exhibition stands designed to cut down on waste

www.dezeen.com: Is it possible to stage a trade fair without producing excessive waste? Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson explores eight approaches that were all on show at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair. The trade show format is increasingly under scrutiny, with environmental concerns prompting many to reconsider the material cost of building large exhibition stands that are only used for a few days.

Google Pauses AI Image Generation of People to Fix Racial Inaccuracies

variety.com: After critics slammed Google‘s “woke” generative AI system, the company halted the ability of its Gemini tool to create images of people to fix what it acknowledged were “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions.”

How the NBA built its 27-million pixel floor for the NBA All-Star Game

www.fastcompany.com: The typically flashy events surrounding the NBA All-Star Game just got exponentially flashier. Other than the game itself, the court’s hosting events, including the Slam Dunk and Three Point contests, will not just be played on the typical glossy hardwood flooring, but on a glass-covered, LED-infused, color-spewing video mega-screen.

How Dance Artists are Fusing ASL With Choreography

Dance Magazine: For Deaf audiences, watching performances with traditional sign language interpretation can feel like watching a tennis match: Their focus has to toggle between whatever is happening onstage and the interpreter, often off to the side, who might be communicating what the music sounds like or what’s being said. That’s if the performance even has an interpreter, which all too often is not the case.

 

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