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Hot New TechHot New Speech SynthesisSarah Ing joins Judith to explore speech synthesis. Descript is an audio editing product that offers a new feature called Overdub, made by the Lyrebird team, which promises "Ultra-realistic voice cloning" . In this episode you'll hear the synthetic voices they created as well how they made them and the ratings. Stay tuned for the postscript by fake Judith about what it was like editing the show with descript and overdub!
Sarah's Podcast: the breakup evolution - following personal stories of how people evolve from breakup, addiction and more!
Descript's Overdub by Lyrebird
2021-11-2320 minHot New TechHot New NFTsOur first guest host - Regina Cantu and Rushali look into the whole hype about and around Non Fungible Tokens. They attempt to make an NFT in a sustainable way and recap the process and pitfalls.
Have you made an NFT and sold it yet? Shoot us an email with your experience info@hotnew.tech
References -
The Verge Article
https://www.ashleyzelinskie.com/
https://zivschneider.com/
https://sign-art.app/
https://waves.exchange/
https://rarible.com/ -- Think about the 🌎
2021-11-2329 minHot New TechHot New CommunityFatigued by the likes chasing industry but wanting to connect with their people, Rushali and Judith embark on creating a hot new community tool. Inspired by GIFs and a community of makers - the Genuine Reaction Portal was born. The conversation in the episode ends up being more about prototyping than community, but for a community that prototypes - maybe that makes sense?!
2021-11-2316 minHot New TechHot New Data Privacy w/ Blacklight by The MarkupIn an episode that made them cry, Judith & Rushali explore data privacy and try to figure out how to trust websites and how to build a website worth trusting. We try out Blacklight, a website privacy inspector, which promises to help you know who is peeking over your shoulder while you hang out on the internet.
Special thanks to Surya Mattu for walking us through our Blacklight report and shoutout to Surya's reporting partner Aaron Sankin and Markup designer Sam Morris for their hard work on this amazing tool!
Links:
Blacklight: https://themarkup.org/bla...
2021-11-2318 minHot New TechHot New Machine Learning with Runway MLAfter 4 hours of trying to understand machine learning with 2 very different tools, Rushali and Judith break down their understanding of machine learning, some applications, their experience and some recommendations for how to choose the right ML tool.
Links --
https://runwayml.com/
Gene Kogan's sweet 5 min Runway Tutorial
https://pytorch.org/
https://www.pytorchlightning.ai/
Episode Artwork Image Description: Runway ML generated image when we ran Hot New Tech's bio description through the AttnGAN model.
2021-11-2328 minHot New TechHot New Tone.jsIn this audio themed show, Judith and Rushali explore tone.js, the javascript audio web framework, built on top of the web audio API. While building potentially the most whimsical hover states of all time, they explore if audio on the web can make a come back, how it relates to the themes in The Social Dilemma (have you seen it? what did you think?), javascript education and only a tiny bit of politics. Also, our first episode with upgraded Blue Yeti mics - can you tell the difference? ALSO, an open source repository of genuine laughter is born.
2021-11-2324 minHot New TechWeb Monetization Deep-Dive: An interview w/ Sabine Bertram from COILAfter building our first web monetized page and making 0.12 cents, we were curious to hear more about the future and ecosystem of this new world. Sabine, who wrote the tutorial we followed in episode 1, is a R&D software engineer from Coil - a subscription service for viewing web monetized content. She tells us more about the new directions web monetization is taking, some web history and we banter about the general philosophy of a non-spying digital world!
Following are links to things mentioned in the episode --
Web Monetization web page: https://webmonetization.org/
Interledger web...
2021-11-2238 minHot New TechHot New StoreWho knew payment processing options could be inspiring? Judith & Rushali put up their first product for sale on https://rushali.github.io/hotnewtech/ and explore the wonderful world of 2020 online money exchange. Tune in for a recap of their experience researching and choosing payment processing options, reviews and recommendations for both experimental, new and established businesses. From envelopes of cash to crypto - they now have their first item(s) available for purchase for dollars or bitcoin and everything is negotiable.
2021-11-2223 minHot New TechHot New HASH AICould hash's data simulator be the next Trello, Glitch or Stack Overflow? It has Joel Spolsky's magic dust on it and a juicy mission statement so we checked it out! Using Javascript we attempted to create Netflix‘s "Indian Matchmaking" world in this data ai simulation engine. Check out the latest episode for our review of hash.ai!
Links:
Get started with Hash: https://hash.ai/
Joel on hiring engineers: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guide-to-interviewing-version-30/
2021-11-2231 minHot New TechHot New CupIgnorance is bliss but knowledge is power! Rushali and Judith share a passion for an under rated technology with a steep learning curve but 10/10 fun factor. Following the usual format, we discuss our first times with a menstrual cup, some tips, ratings, pros and cons. Our most fun and mortifying episode yet! Share your menstrual cup stories with us! And please consult with a medical professional or at least someone who knows all the right female anatomy names before internal experimentation.
2021-11-2225 minHot New TechWeb AR Deep-Dive: An interview w/ Nicoló Carpignoli of AR.jsIn episode 3 Judith and Rushali explored WebAR with A-frame and AR.js The curiosity of what the future of WebAR looks like led them to shooting an email to Nicoló Carpignoli - the current maintainer of AR.js. This episode is an interview with him where we dive into topics like open source and browser drama, Web XR device API, w3c and AR js studio.
Links:
web xr device api - https://www.w3.org/TR/webxr/
ar js studio - https://ar-js-org.github.io/studio/
2021-11-2215 minHot New TechHot New Web ARWhat is the difference between VR, AR, XR, MR and the real R? What even are some of the common applications of it? How can we create AR on the Web in 10 lines of HTML? Is it worth it? Judith & Rushali cover these topics and more in this weeks episode using A-frame and AR.js. Head to https://rushali.github.io/hotnewtech/ to read the blog which dives into the technical details.
2021-11-2218 min
Hot New TechHot New Web MonetizationLured in by Mozilla's promise of a "better internet", technologists Judith & Rushali explore an alternative way of monetizing content called Web Monetization. Defined by webmonetization.org as “a JavaScript browser API which allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website”, they break down what that actually means, how they got it working and if you should, too.
Update: So far we've made 12 cents! Check out Episode 8 for our interview with Sabine from Coil for a deeper dive on web monetization and the future.
2021-11-2218 min
Hot New TechHot New Google Actions"Hey Google, how do I make one of these?" Technologists Judith & Rushali explore building a conversational experience with Google Actions. They break down the voice interface design terminology and walk through their experience getting started.
2021-11-2221 min