Tag: computing
The original Apple Computer cost $666.66, but you can get Steve Jobs’ Polaroids of it for $2148
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to price his new Apple-1 computer, he chose a price roughly three times what it cost to build it: $666.66. The price made his cofounder and chief system designer Steve Wozniak laugh because of its proximity to a joke line he used to dial,…
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Google is trying to delete and bury explicit deepfakes from search results
Google is dramatically upping its efforts to combat the appearance of explicit images and videos created with AI in search results. The company wants to make it clear that AI-produced non-consensual deepfakes are not welcome in its search engine. The actual images may be prurient or offensive in some other…
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Turn your selfie into an action star with this new AI image-to-video feature
Artificial intelligence-powered video maker Runway has added the promised image-to-video feature to its Gen-3 model released a few weeks ago, and it may be as impressive as promised. Runway has enhanced the feature to address its biggest limitations in the Gen-2 model released early last year. The upgraded tool is…
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macOS Sonoma 14.6 unlocks dual display capability for the MacBook Pro 14-inch M3 at last
Apple just released a new version of macOS, and with the update to Sonoma 14.6, an important new feature has been brought to the base model (vanilla M3) of the MacBook Pro 14-inch – namely support for dual displays. With macOS Sonoma 14.6 installed, owners of this MacBook Pro model…
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Google’s Circle to Search could soon protect you from fake AI-generated images
As is the trend for most AI-infused products these days, Circle to Search is expanding – again. The feature, which premiered on the Galaxy S24 series in January of this year and then rolled out to other Android devices, allows you to simply circle something on screen – be it an amazing…
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The AI Friend necklace is the worst parts of Fight Club and Beautiful Mind put together
Recently I was watching a TV series in which the main character was, as I like to call it, “Beautiful Minded”. For multiple episodes, he was talking to an old friend, one who did not always have his best interests at heart. It turned out the guy was in his…
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