Monday assorted links:

VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.

🔗 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

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Cindy Lee Might Be the Future of Music | GQ

The buzziest indie album of the moment is a folder of files you can only get from a janky Geocities website. Drake is dropping new music on something called Krakenfiles.com. Chris Black wonders if the post-streaming era will look like Web 1.0.

🔗 https://www.gq.com/story/pulling-weeds-with-chris-black-cindy-lee-might-be-the-future-of-music