Affinity Designer made a name for itself as a premier vector art app on the Mac, and now it’s available for the iPad. The app is a full-featured as the Mac version, but with an interface designed just for touch. Designer supports Apple Pencil, includes all the design tools you’d expect in a professional desktop vector design app, and exports to popular formats such as PSD, EPS, SVG, PDF, and PNG. Affinity Designer is currently 30% to celebrate its launch so you can pick it up at Apple’s App Store for US$13.99.
The Complete iOS 11 Developer Course and iOS Mastery Bundle: $29
We have a deal for developers called the Complete iOS 11 Developer Course and iOS Mastery Bundle. It’s comprised of five different training courses for learning to code for iOS 10 and iOS 11, as well as beginner courses for tvOS and watchOS, with Swift 3. This bundle is $29, but with coupon code «BUNDLE50» will get you another 50% off.
Nvidia and MIT Created a Photo AI that can Clean up Noisy Photos
Nvidia and MIT have partnered to create a photo AI that can automatically remove noise from images. The system is called Noise2Noise AI and it was trained using 50,000 photos.
In their paper, the researchers show that their AI can successfully remove enough noise to make the pictures usable again, with detail and clarity that’s remarkably close to the source images. The AI could likely find use in software for cleaning up noisy photos captured in low-light conditions on phones and cameras, as well as improving astronomical imagery and MRI scanning.
Some Very Cool Space Images - and a Falcon 9 Launch
The best images from space, and some from the ground, and some from the ISS can be both spectacular and inspiring. Here are some great ones that dazzle. Thanks to digg,com for collecting them. (Falcon 9 time-lapse shot via SpaceX.)
Future AirPods Could Become Even More Accessible
A new feature that Apple is adding to AirPods is called Live Listen. It lets people hear conversations in noisy settings. It will come to future AirPods coming later this year, although it won’t be a replacement for hearing aids.
Nick Dawson—the founder of the Sibley Innovation Hub at Johns Hopkins university, so no stranger to patient-driven care—is documenting experiments with his mother, who is using the beta version of LiveListen with her AirPods, on Twitter.
How Silicon Valley Created a Modern Caste System
Although Silicon Valley has changed the world through its proliferation of tech companies, it has also created a bunch of problems, says Antonio Martínez from Wired. He says that Silicon Valley has created a modern caste system.
But it is the vision of the future that San Francisco offers: highly stratified, with little social mobility. It’s feudalism with better marketing. Today’s “sharing” economy resembles the “sharecropping” of yesteryear, with the serfs responding to a smartphone prompt rather than an overseer’s command…Inequality rarely decreases, and when it does it’s often as the result of wars, revolutions, pandemics, or state collapse.
SKEYE Nano 2 Camera Drone: $29
We have a deal on the world’s smallest camera drone, the SKEYE Nano 2 Camera Drone. It features adjustable gyro sensitivity and a 6-axis flight control system designed to be easy for even novices to fly, and it’s controllable from your smartphone. It’s $29 through our deal.
Redesigning the World Wide Web, Hacking USB Restricted Mode - TMO Daily Observations 2018-07-10
Bryan Chaffin and John Martellaro join Jeff Gamet to talk about Tim Berners-Lee’s push to make a new world wide web, plus look at a report saying there’s an easy workaround to iOS 11.4.1’s USB Restricted Mode.
Build 20 Apps with the Complete iOS 11 and Swift Developer Course: $19
We have a deal on the Complete iOS 11 and Swift Developer Course. It features 249 lectures and 34 hours of training content, and you’ll build 20 different apps during the course. You’ll also work with iOS 11, Swift 4, ARKit, MLKit, MusicKit, and the new Depth Photo API. You can get the full course through us for $19.
Netflix's Original Content Budget is Bonkers Huge
Netflix isn’t holding back on its original content and could spend US$13 billion this year on its shows and movies. To put that in perspective, Apple is moving aggressively with its $1 billion investment in original content and still well above more traditional content creators. David Z. Morris writing at Fortune said,
Netflix will spend $12-13 billion on original programming this year. That’s much more than the $8 billion it planned to spend as of October 2017. It would also be vastly more than legacy studios are spending: HBO spent $2.5 billion on content in 2017, and even CBS spent just $4 billion.
The streaming media company has plans for 82 feature films this year, and could be spending $22.5 billion a year on content by 2022. That moves the bar for Amazon, HBO, Hulu, and now Apple.
