Month: September 2023
The Morning After: 50 attorneys general urge Congress to fight AI-generated child sexual abuse images
“We are engaged in a race against time to protect the children of our country from the dangers of AI,” the attorneys general wrote in an open letter to Congress, asking for increased protective measures against AI-enhanced child sexual abuse images. Using image generators like Dall-E and Midjourney to create…
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Waymo is using insurance data about self-driving cars to bolster its safety case
Waymo is using insurance data to make the case that its self-driving cars are safer than human drivers. The report, a result of the collaboration first announced last year between the Alphabet-owned company and the insurer Swiss Re, is intended to show how driverless vehicles crash less often and damage…
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One Piece is king of the TV show high seas as it sails to #1 on Netflix
Whenever there’s an adaptation of a much-loved book, fans tend to get a bit nervous: will it stay true to the source or take unacceptable liberties with the source? For every The Sandman that does big numbers and gets a great Rotten Tomatoes score, there’s a Y: The Last Man…
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GoPro is back at making 360-degree cameras
GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman confirmed a new 360-degree GoPro Max camera “is in the works and will be worth the wait” at the GoPro 12 launch event. This update was a long time coming – the original GoPro Max was released all the way back in October 2019. …
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New Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix will finally let you properly romance the evil Paladin
Developers Larian Studios has released a new hotfix for Baldur’s Gate 3, fixing a wide range of bugs. Chiefest among these glitches was a glitch preventing players from progressing one of the game’s main romances all the way to act three. Thanks to this hotfix, players will finally be able…
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The new UE Epicboom is a beefy $350 Bluetooth speaker
Where do you go next after branding your speakers with names like the Boom, Megaboom, Hyperboom, and Wonderboom? Well, apparently the natural progression has led Ultimate Ears to none other than “Epicboom.” That’s the new speaker that the company just announced today. It’s a chunky device that gives off more…
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