“If Shakespeare lived today, what would he write about?” Philipp Stollenmayer asked the audience during this week’s Day of the Devs 2024: Game Awards stream. According to Stollenmayer, Shakespeare would write about the invention of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the perspective of […]
Day: December 11, 2024
Bid to revive UK privacy damages suit against Google DeepMind fails to show class
Another attempt to get a class-action style privacy damages case to stick against Google has failed in the U.K. after the Court of Appeal refused to overturn an earlier dismissal. The lawsuit concerned the misuse of health records for some 1.6 million patients whose information […]
Mynt raises a cool $23M on a $210M valuation to build a smarter expense card for SMEs
Small and medium businesses are getting more love in the world of fintech these days, and one example of that is the growth of a startup out of Sweden. Mynt, which has built an AI-based platform for corporate cards and spend management catering to SMEs, […]
Google’s Gemini Deep Research tool is here to answer your most complicated questions
When Google debuted Gemini 1.5 Pro in February, the company touted the model’s ability to reason through what it called “long context windows.” It said, for example, the algorithm could provide details about a 402-page Apollo 11 mission transcript. Now, Google is giving people a […]
YouTube’s AI-powered auto dubbing tool has finally arrived
A year-and-a-half after YouTube first announced it, the platform’s AI dubbing service has arrived. The company shared the news alongside some example videos equipped with auto dubbing (which we’ll get into in a bit). The feature is available to “hundreds of thousands of” informational or […]
GM is giving up on Cruise robotaxis, pivots to personal autonomous vehicles
General Motors said Tuesday it will no longer fund the development of a commercial robotaxi business and will instead absorb its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise and combine it with the automaker’s own efforts to develop driver assistance features — and eventually fully autonomous personal vehicles. […]
Learn how to use Apple Intelligence’s ‘Image Playground’
Apple announced Wednesday that iOS 18.2 is now available, which comes with exciting image generation features, such as “Image Playground,” Apple’s image creation feature that creates cartoon-like images from text descriptions. Here’s what you need to know about the Apple Intelligence feature, including what it […]
Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now—and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It
“People don’t always realize they are creating a human being and not a piece of furniture.”
Kyu’s Tiny Camera Only Captures 9-Second Videos
The handheld Kyu camera captures clips up to nine seconds in length and has space to hold only 27 videos at once. The strict limits are meant to bring “emotional consideration” to your digital memories.
Midjourney is launching a multiplayer collaborative worldbuilding tool
The news comes as other AI researchers and big tech companies seek to develop AI that can create 3D immersive, navigable worlds.
