Barry Vercoe, who made coding sound accessible to all, has died

Peter Kirn - June 17, 2025

Benn Jordan’s AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise 

Peter Kirn - April 15, 2025

VDMX6 gets vision: video tracking, color transfer, background removal

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2025

Sinevibes’ YouTube account is terminated (updated: it’s back!)

Peter Kirn - February 3, 2025

Mood Machine: The rise of spotify and the cost of the perfect playlist - book cover by Liz Pelly showing Spotify-style thumbnails on a black background.

Mood Machine, Liz Pelly’s book on Spotify, will be a must-read

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2024

Magnetic Masking demonstration in Final Cut Pro 11 running on a MacBook, showing a car highlighted in green in the edit window plus a status dialog, timeline view open.

New in Final Cut Pro: AI you’ll actually use, more mature iPad version

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2024

Eye-popping TouchDesigner techniques with noise, AI, point clouds, and more

Peter Kirn - October 2, 2024

Go watch this deep dive on AI-generated textures – what works, what doesn’t

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2024

Generative AI is “generating” existing pop songs: industry lawsuit

Peter Kirn - June 25, 2024

Logic Pro for Mac 11, Logic Pro for iPad 2, reviewed: more than just AI

Peter Kirn - June 24, 2024