Author: Zach_Wilson

Ford receives $9.2 billion government loan for EV battery factory projects

Ford will receive $9.2 billion as part of a conditional loan from the US Department of Energy to aid in the construction of three huge electric vehicle battery factories, the agency announced Thursday. The mammoth loan represents the biggest government offering to an automaker since the bailouts following the Great…

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The next version of Stable Diffusion won’t produce spaghetti hands

The next version of the prompt-based AI image generator, Stable Diffusion, will produce more photorealistic images and be better at making hands. SDXL 0.9, a follow-up to Stable Diffusion XL, “produces massively improved image and composition detail over its predecessor” according to Stability AI. The announcement appeared in a since-deleted…

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When Is Amazon Prime Day 2023? Tips to Shop Like a Pro

We’ve got tips to help you cut through the clutter to find the real deals. Source

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Final Fantasy XVI is so fucking edgy

It’s no secret that Game of Thrones has been a major influence on Final Fantasy XVI — the developers have said as much. “When we first started creating the game, we had our core team of about 30 members very early on buy the Blu-ray boxset of Game of Thrones…

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Microsoft wants your company to feed its private data into ChatGPT

Microsoft has revealed a new launch giving firms the ability to hand over their corporate data to its Azure OpenAI Service in order to get better results when querying the AI chatbot. OpenAI is the company behind the ever-popular ChatGPT, and Microsoft has been one of its biggest investors, pouring…

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Twitch announces Hype Chat and it sounds potentially problematic

Twitch has just announced Hype Chat, a new tool that allows viewers to pay to pin their message to the top of a streamer’s chat – and thus guaranteeing a higher chance of visibility and attention. The function is simple when distilled down: Hype Chat will mean that even on fast-moving…

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