Technology

Photoshop to end of support for PostScript Type 1 fonts in the year 2021

At that time, PostScript Type 1 fonts will no longer be listed in Photoshop’s Font menu. This is an issue for accessing legacy files from many publisher’s archives.

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How 2020 Democrats could rewrite the rules of political typography

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Innovation

Google report assesses how AI can best serve humanity

HT @CandaceMarks

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

According to the latest Gartner hype cycle, augmented reality is now a mature technology and not an emerging one anymore, because it is useful for businesses

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Google says its AI detects 26 skin conditions as accurately as dermatologists

Researchers at Google claim they’ve developed a skin condition-diagnosing AI that’s on par with dermatologists in terms of accuracy.

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AI Can Pass Standardized Tests—But It Would Fail Preschool

RT @nycmedialab Tech headlines have exploded with the news of AI2’s Aristo performance on the New York Regents exam. You’d think an algorithm would require a modicum of artificial common sense – aka some contextual understanding – to be able to answer Regents questions, right?

Melanie Mitchell, professor of computer science at Portland State University and author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, suggests that Aristo’s models simply “capture statistical associations between words that allow it to answer the question without any real understanding.”

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McDonald’s acquires A.I. company to help automate the drive-thru, its third tech deal this year

Apprente, a Silicon Valley company founded in 2017, uses artificial intelligence to understand drive-thru orders.

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Publishing

Audible pauses Captions roll-out after publisher lawsuit

Audible is limiting the roll-out of its Captions speech-to-text feature to just works in the public domain after seven publishers filed a copyright lawsuit.

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Google says it will do more to prioritize original reporting in search

HT @edwardroussel a belated victory for publishers who have fought for two decades to get credit for breaking a story.

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Here’s what we know so far about the upcoming Facebook News tab

RT @NiemanLab Facebook’s News Tab is supposed to launch this fall; the company will pay some news publishers to syndicate their headlines and article previews.

Apple and Facebook are putting a bigger emphasis on human-judged, featured news. But what kind of news will the editors be picking?

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Marie Claire UK shutting down print editiom

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@TeenVogue partnered with @Snapchat to give a pipeline to younger designers as part of the Generation Next event at #NYFW.

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People Who Read Before Bed Not Only Sleep Better, But Eat More Healthily and Make More Money

HT @lithub This sleep survey proves the benefits of reading before bed go well beyond relaxation. Read all the amazing benefits of reading before bed here.

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Business

Patience is a Virtue: An Amazon Case Study in Three Parts

ICYMI RT @strategyzer Did you know it took Amazon three iterations over four years to arrive at Amazon Marketplace?

#1: X Amazon Auctions (eBay rip)

#2: X zShops

#3: √ Amazon Marketplace

Companies today don’t have the time and shareholder support to work through an innovation journey. This is why innovation metrics are so important and often so different from traditional business metrics.

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Causes

Tell Congress: Stop the largest book ban in America

The largest book ban in the United States isn’t found in our schools or our local libraries. It’s found in our prisons. Over 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated, meaning that the arcane and arbitrary systems of book restrictions for incarcerated people represent the largest book ban in America. And yet these restrictions get little public attention.

In Texas, the Department of Criminal Justice has banned over 10,000 books from prisons, including books by Alice Walker, John Grisham, Jenna Bush Hager, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Bob Dole. While books from Adolf Hitler and David Duke have been allowed, books about civil rights and prison conditions are often blocked.

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