Tag: computing

Hollywood studios can’t make money from AI-powered fake movie trailers on YouTube anymore

YouTube demonetized two channels for sharing AI-made fake trailers Some Hollywood studios secretly claimed ad revenue from the misleading trailers The crackdown comes amid new contracts and laws limiting unauthorized AI replicas If you’ve ever visited YouTube and clicked on a trailer for the next superhero film and thought it…

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TikTok ban looms again – what’s next for the social media platform, and do we still care?

Remember that time TikTok shut down and disappeared from app stores? It wasn’t that long ago. For roughly 12 hours on January 19, TikTok was stripped away from roughly 175M US users only to be saved by a Presidential executive order decree that extended the ban deadline by 75 days.…

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Google Hotels now lets you track prices, and I can’t wait to use it for my next trip

Google’s latest feature drop might be a big win for summer travel As with flights, you can now track prices and set alerts for hotels Google Maps can also now pull potential places to visit from screenshots If you’re a fan of Google Flights, especially for the price tracking data…

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Is AI like ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini ruining social media? Because it sure feels like it

Yesterday morning, I logged into Facebook and saw an image of the Colosseum turned into a water park. On LinkedIn, everyone was busy transforming their headshots into Studio Ghibli characters, courtesy of ChatGPT’s latest update. Threads showed me a video reimagining the cast of Severance crawling around Lumon as babies.…

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AMD’s powerful Ryzen AI Max processors are on their way to desktop PCs – and a side effect could kill off discrete GPUs for gaming

AMD’s CEO Lisa Su hints at more Ryzen AI Max APUs coming to desktop PCs Some of the APUs have been used in Framework Desktops It could be the start of discrete GPUs being subsided While Nvidia and AMD‘s new GPU lineups are at the forefront of PC gaming news,…

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: A no-compromise CPU for demanding gamers

How can we push CPUs forward? That’s the question the computing industry has been asking since the Intel 4004 processor launched in 1971. Chipmakers have tried cranking up clock speeds, adding multiple cores and miniaturizing chip architectures to make them faster and more efficient. The conflict between RISC and CISC…

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