Month: February 2024
Peacock will stream the Chinese adaptation of The Three-Body Problem
Another adaptation of Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem will be streaming for English audiences. While Netflix’s 3 Body Problem is set to premiere on March 21st, today, Peacock announced that it has acquired rights to the original Chinese adaptation, dubbed simply Three-Body. And it’s coming very soon — the series…
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Meta’s new Code Llama 70B takes aim at Github’s Copilot — it’s far better than the original 5-month old Code Llama but I can’t help but wonder if devs will love it
Meta AI has released a new version of its advanced code generation model, Code Llama 70B. One of the largest open-source AI models for code generation, the new platform is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, making it both significantly faster and more accurate. Code Llama 70B has been trained…
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Instagram and Threads will stop recommending political content
It’ll soon be easier to avoid seeing political content across Instagram and Threads unless users explicitly choose to have it recommended to them. In a blog post published on Friday, Meta announced that it’s expanding an existing Reels policy that limits political content from people you’re not following (including posts…
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Google Maps is getting an AI-boosted upgrade to be an even better navigation assistant and your personal tour guide
It looks like Google is going all-in on artificial intelligence (AI), and following the rebranding of its generative AI chatbot from Bard to Gemini, it’s now bringing generative AI recommendations to Google Maps. The AI-aided recommendations will help Google Maps perform even better searches for a variety of destinations, and…
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These $349 smart glasses have ‘AI superpowers’ and a comical charging nose
There’s a new pair of smart spectacles in town — and this time, it’s the $349 Frame glasses said to give you multimodal “AI superpowers.” The open-source eyewear comes from a startup called Brilliant Labs, which touts Frame as a way to get AI translations, web search, and visual analysis…
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Netflix, Amazon, and Paramount wanted Coyote vs. Acme but Warner Bros. Discovery refused
Last fall, Warner Bros. Discovery seemed willing to entertain the idea of letting another studio release director Dave Green’s Coyote vs. Acme after initially announcing its plans to Batgirl (read: cancel in exchange for tax write-offs) the nearly completed film in early November. But according to a new report, the…
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