Month: February 2024
Crying in Apple Vision Pro Is No Laughing Matter
I watched a steady diet of sad movies in Apple’s headset. It was strangely emotional, but the weight of the headset—and aloneness—distracted from the movies. Source
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Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors
Google says it’s pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be generating inaccurate historical images. Gemini has been creating diverse images of the US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era German soldiers, in what looked like an attempt to subvert the…
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Avatar: The Last Airbender is everything that’s disappointing about Netflix’s live-action cartoon shows
With its focus on thoughtful character development and exploration of difficult subject matter like genocide, Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender series set a new high bar for children’s TV. But despite its tonal maturity, Avatar was still very much a cartoon trying to delight you by playing to the strengths…
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Microsoft’s upcoming custom chip will be made by Intel
Intel’s relatively new Foundry division — formerly known as Intel Foundry Services until earlier today — has just landed a notable order from a big name. According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that his company will be tapping into Intel’s latest 18A (1.8nm)…
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A lone developer just open sourced a tool that could bring an end to Nvidia’s AI hegemony — AMD financed it for months but abruptly ended its support. Nobody knows why
Andrzej Janik, a developer working on a tool that allowed Nvidia‘s CUDA code to run on AMD and Intel GPUs without any modifications, has open sourced his creation after support for the project was dropped by both AMD and Intel. Although ZLUDA received a major update last week, bringing it…
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Your older S23 phone will get Samsung’s Galaxy AI suite in late March
Samsung said Wednesday that the Galaxy S24’s AI features will arrive on last year’s phones (including foldables) and tablets in late March. In January, Engadget’s Sam Rutherford reported that the AI suite would soon be available on the Galaxy S23 series, Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5 and Tab S9.…
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