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Sarah Ing joins Judith to explore speech synthesis, ie creating a Sarah and Judith voice. In this episode you'll hear the synthetic voices they created using Descript's new feature, Overdub, which promises "ultra-realistic voice cloning",  made by the Lyrebird team. They discuss what it took and if it's worth it. 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 

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Our 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 [email protected]

References -
The Verge Article
https://www.ashleyzelinskie.com/
https://zivschneider.com/
https://sign-art.app/
https://waves.exchange/
https://rarible.com/ -- Think about the

Fatigued 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? Stay tuned for the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT  at the end of our episode for Season 2! 

Check out the community page on hotnew.tech and if you want genuine reactions to one of your projects, send it to us on [email protected] and we’ll add to the gallery! 

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In 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.  They 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 Judith & Rushali through their 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/blacklight
• Great Markup article on why privacy matters: https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites
• Har Reader:  https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/har_analyzer/

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After 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. 

In 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.

Show Transcript: https://hotnew.tech/explored/tonejs#transcript

Links:

• Tone Js: https://tonejs.github.io/
• Creator of Tone Js: https://yotammann.info/
• (Desktop) The new hover states on our explored section: https://hotnew.tech/#explored
• Sweet library of free sounds with disappointing laugh offerings: https://freesound.org/

Cool applications of tone.js that were boring to talk about in the episode so we edited it out but here are the links, please enjoy! 

• Make music on scroll! By Yotam, creator of Tone: http://jazz.computer/ 
• Make music with your face: https://face-the-music.glitch.me/
• Make a piano chat room: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Shared-Piano/#tGWqtrof2

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After 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 page: https://interledger.org/
• Interledger forum: https://forum.interledger.org/
• Interledger slack: https://interledger.slack.com/
• Interledger community call recordings / podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interledger/id1521476300
• Coil developer docs: https://docs.coil.com/
• Sabine's blog: https://coil.com/u/sabinebertram
• Ben's work on probabilistic revenue sharing: https://coil.com/u/sharafian
• The forum thread on referral links is here: https://forum.interledger.org/t/web-monetized-referral-links/829/5
  
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Who knew payment processing options could be inspiring? Judith & Rushali put up their first product for sale on hotnew.tech 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.

Links:

• New product: https://hotnew.tech/store.html
• Be a patron: https://www.patreon.com/hotnewtech?fan_landing=true

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Could 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/
• Indian Matchmaking Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZS2KbLAy5Y
  
  

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**Please consult with a medical professional or at least someone who knows all the names of female anatomy before internal experimentation. **

Ignorance 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, they discuss their first times with a menstrual cup, some tips, ratings, pros and cons. The most fun and mortifying episode yet!

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