Month: September 2024
Ever wanted to be in a commercial? This airline will do just that, through the power of AI
You can be a lead in a romantic film promoting an airline and global travel, or at least your face can do so thanks to a new Qatar Airways campaign. The airline has a new AI Adventure campaign combining a short film and deepfake tools as a way of literally…
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The man who put Doom in a Lego brick is now playing it on a volumetric voxel display
In 2022, I introduced you to James Brown, the Weta Workshop graphics engineer whose hobby is building amazing displays. Now, he’s built a crystal ball filled with shimmering, spinning volumetric light — and of course he’s playing Doom on it. But not just any Doom. Voxel Doom, where every dot…
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MG says the first cars with solid state batteries will arrive as early as next year
The executive vice president of SAIC, MG’s parent company, stated that the automaker will begin introducing solid state battery (SSB) technology into its line-up as early as next year. Speaking at the Chengdu motor show last week, Yu Jingmin discussed a new solid state battery technology that has been developed…
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The Boeing Starliner’s strange test flight is finally returning to Earth, but it’s empty
Boeing, once a major player in space, has suffered a string of setbacks, failures, and legal challenges in recent years that have chipped away its dominance in the space industry. The company’s space unit has been lapped by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and left to watch on the sidelines as other…
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If the iPhone 16 Pro revives my favorite Nokia feature, I’ll have to upgrade
The phone that ushered in the modern mobile age was a Nokia, but not the one you’re thinking of – not the Nokia 3210 (the one with Snake). The Nokia N95, a multimedia wonder, predated the iPhone by a year and offered more features than the iPhone would have for…
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AI video tool recreates Super Mario Bros. but it’s so glitchy
An 8-bit plumber with a mustache and a taste for mushrooms was the height of cutting-edge entertainment in 1985. Now, an AI model can recreate the entire game based on some basic prompts (and with sometimes hilarious glitches in the process). The MarioVGG demonstrated in a new academic paper by…
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