Microsoft recently announced two new features for Copilot. The first update is for Microsoft Forms, Microsoft’s web-based application that is used for creating surveys and quizzes. Users can now use Copilot to create quizzes directly from existing documents, textbooks, or notes. It makes things so much easier for teachers. This goes by the Feature ID 389149, […]
Click reporter Paul Carter has a go at playing Minecraft with his eyes.
The Sticker feature is only the first of several to come this month, with 16 more updates coming in the next few weeks.
MPs voted this week to ban anyone aged 15 or younger in 2024 from buying cigarettes. If the legislation passes and is enacted, it would be a world first. Ben Quinn reportsBefore 2007, going out on the town in the UK involved inhaling secondhand smoke – on trains, in restaurants, in clubs and in pubs. Even non-smokers would find that a stale tobacco scent could linger after an evening out. The ban on smoking indoors in public places changed things almost overnight.Now with smoking rates among the...
The least successful House speaker in history—the only one to be ousted—is taking time out of his revenge agenda to take a stab at rewriting history to somehow make himself the hero. That includes a Georgetown University event called “How Strong Is Our Democracy? With Kevin McCarthy.” Politico reports that despite that title, at “a time when both Democrats and Republicans—for very different reasons—warn that ‘democracy is on the ballot’ in 2024, he didn’t seem to have that level of concern about...
NASA's first attempt to bring home samples of rock and dirt from Mars could be canned by cost overruns. To save the mission, the space agency is asking for help.
With deepfake photos alarming people, the usefulness of AI is overshadowed by its danger like in the case of the NUCA camera which removes the subject's clothing in an instant.
Researchers from National Taiwan University and the University of Maryland have published a new Journal of Marketing article that examines how marketers can use GenAI to provide empathetic customer care.
Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly’s image creation tool saw similar issues. This led some commentators to complain that AI had gone “woke.” Others suggested these issues resulted from faulty efforts to fight AI bias and better serve a global audience. The discussions over AI’s political leanings and efforts to fight bias are important....
The Visual Affective Skills Animator, or VASA, is a machine-learning framework that analyzes a facial photo and then animates it to a voice, syncing the lips and mouth movements to the audio. It also simulates facial expressions, head movements, and even unseen body movements.Read Entire Article
Researchers unveil fiber-like material storing energy, advancing wearable technology with the potential for seamless integration into everyday garments.
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