Month: February 2024
X adds live video to Spaces instead of bringing back Periscope
Spaces, the live audio feature for X, is now letting hosts turn on their video during chat sessions. The platform formerly known as Twitter announced the news on Wednesday as owner / CTO Elon Musk reposted a walkthrough from a user named “Dogedesigner.” Spaces users will notice a new option…
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 could be up to 70% faster than the 4090, but its best chips might be reserved for AI
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has been the subject of plenty of rumors since at least last year, and the latest gives us two new surprising details on what we can expect from the possible next-gen graphics card. The RTX 5090 most likely will be based on the…
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Adobe’s new AI music tool could make you a text-to-musical genius
Adobe is getting into the music business as the company is previewing its new experimental generative AI capable of making background tracks. It doesn’t have an official name yet since the tech is referred to as Project Music GenAI. The way it works, according to Adobe, is you enter a…
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Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series
Another sci-fi adaptation is making its way to Apple TV Plus. The streamer announced that it’s adapting William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer into a 10-episode series. Graham Roland (Lost, Jack Ryan) will serve as showrunner, while JD Dillard (Utopia) will direct the first episode. (Both will also be executive…
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Tubi’s new redesign wants to push you down the rabbit hole
Tubi knows that people fire up its app just to see what happens to be streaming rather than to search for one specific thing, and the platform is trying to embrace that reality about itself in the form of a playful new brand identity. Today, Tubi began rolling out a…
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Substack’s platform now has direct messages
Substack writers and readers can now send private one-on-one direct messages to others on the platform, the company announced today. The highly requested feature works similarly to DMs found on social networking apps like X and Instagram, though it is optional and can be disabled. Just as you can from…
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