Month: October 2024
How AI can turn your home video into a Hollywood blockbuster
Want to star in an animated film as an anthropomorphic animal version of yourself? Runway’s AI video creation platform has a new AI tool to do just that. The new Act-One feature may make motion-capture suits and manual computer animation unnecessary to match live action. Act-One streamlines what is usually…
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Perplexity blasts media as ‘adversarial’ in response to copyright lawsuit
Perplexity has recently come under significant scrutiny following accusations that it scraped content without permission, and News Corp, which is the parent company of the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal-owner Dow Jones, alleged that Perplexity’s search engine “copies on a massive scale.” Perplexity, in its response today,…
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Scout Motors mounts an electric comeback with new SUV and truck concepts
Decades ago, Scout Motors helped introduce America to the “sport utility vehicle,” a quirky new automobile that would eventually come to dominate our roads. The brand went bust in 1980 — but now, it’s back, and it’s all-electric. Scout, which is now an independent company under the Volkswagen Group, introduced…
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Apple Intelligence bug bounty invites researchers to test its privacy claims
Apple is inviting investigations into the Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system that powers more computationally intensive Apple Intelligence requests. The company is also expanding its bug bounty program to offer payouts of up to $1,000,000 for people who discover PCC vulnerabilities. The company has boasted about how many AI features…
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Notion is making a super customizable email app
After taking on calendar apps earlier this year, Notion is ready to tackle emails with a fully customizable app launching next year. Much like Notion’s other tools, the company says Mail will “distill email down to its building blocks,” allowing you to create an inbox with views, layouts, and actions…
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Overwatch 2 is officially bringing back 6v6 in testing this December
Blizzard is bringing back 6v6 matches in testing for Overwatch 2 when it launches its next season in December. The company had previously switched the series to a 5v5 format, and Blizzard is now trying these tests to find how it can “make the core game even stronger” through a…
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