• A24’s New AI-Generated ‘Civil War’ Ads Generate Controversy

    A24 has released a series of epic new posters touting its acclaimed film

  • AI-generated model: AI-generated fashion models could bring more diversity to the industry

    London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you'd expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intelligence and has already appeared as a stand-in for the real-life Alexsandrah in a photo shoot. Alexsandrah, who goes by her first name professionally, in turn receives credit and compensation whenever the AI version of herself gets used - just like a human model. Alexsandrah says she and her alter-ego mirror...

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    'My deepest apologies': Judge offers rare apology to Umar Zameer after trial sheds new light on case

    A notably different version of events than what was first described by police and politicians came into focus over the course of Umar Zameer’s five-week murder trial in Toronto, culminating in a rare move by the presiding judge. After a jury acquitted Zameer of the first-degree murder charge he faced in connection with the death of Toronto Police Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup, Justice Anne Molloy offered the 34-year-old an apology for his troubles. “Mr. Zameer, you’re free to go, sir,”...

  • Dorset Eye apology

    As a citizen media site, we occasionally get given the wrong information. In the case of the tragic killings in Australia, this was one of those moments. It appears that the perpetrator of the terrible events in Sydney was not the responsibility of the person we published. We will endeavour to make sure that this […]

  • Sorry We're Closed Won't Apologize For Being Too Good

    There are a lot of indie survival horror games that are fifth-generation throwbacks, but à la mode games has a particularly special one in the works.

  • A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety

    A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety Authored by David Zaruk via RealClear Politics, In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible and unscientific climate catastrophism. This reckless alarmism, saturated across the mainstream media and endlessly amplified by it,...

  • Adobe's working on generative video, too

    Adobe says it’s building an AI model to generate video. But it’s not revealing when this model will launch, exactly — or much about it besides the fact that it exists. Offered as an answer of sorts to OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Imagen 2 and models from the growing number of startups in the nascent generative […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • 'Once-in-a-generation' change in corporate reporting

    After pushing for a delay, one of Australia’s leading business organisations has joined a call for the rapid passage of laws on compulsory reporting of climate risks. The Business Council of Australia on Monday joined a coalition of influential investors, senior executives, accountants and superannuation funds to support the passage of the climate reporting bill. […]

  • Calzona apology over 'inconceivable' Napoli attitude

    Francesco Calzona apologised to fans after 1-0 Napoli defeat to Empoli ended Champions League ambitions. ‘The players' attitude is inconceivable.’

  • How to Use Google Gemini for Code Generation

    Google Gemini represents a significant advancement in the field of artificial intelligence, standing as an advanced large language model (LLM) that has positioned itself at the cutting edge of AI technology. With its impressive array of capabilities, Gemini has garnered considerable interest among developers, who find in it a valuable ally for streamlining their coding […]

  • Snapchat to Watermark AI-Generated Images

    In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images. [Read More]

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    Grimes apologizes for disastrous Coachella set

    Canadian singer Grimes apologized to fans on Saturday after her Coachella set earlier that evening was beset by technical issues that caused her to scream into the microphone in frustration. “I want to apologize for the technical issues with the show tonight,” she wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Usually I always handle every aspect of my show myself – to save time this was one of the first times I’ve outsourced essential things like rekordbox bpm’s and letting someone else organize the...