Category: Shorts

  • Amazon is discontinuing Alexa’s celebrity voices, even if you paid for them.

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    Amazon is discontinuing Alexa’s celebrity voices, even if you paid for them. The voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Melisssa McCarthy are no longer available for purchase on Amazon. That’s it for celebrity voices on Alexa. Well, that was supposed to be the end of that. But according to a note on Jackson’s…

  • OpenAI is not doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear

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    OpenAI is not doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear ChatGPT may occasionally generate incorrect information, but OpenAI does its best to warn people that it may be wrong. The problem, of course, was that none of the cases ChatGPT suggested exist. Because when it comes to preparing people to use technology as powerful, as…

  • Apple’s WWDC 2023: all the news

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    Apple’s WWDC 2023: all the news Apple will unveil new features in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS at its upcoming conference, WWDC, in September. There have also been rumors that the company will open up its operating systems to comply with new regulations in Europe, which could present major opportunities for developers. Apple may…

  • Top AI researchers and CEOs warn of risk of extinction in 22-word statement

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    Top AI researchers and CEOs warn of risk of extinction in 22-word statement A group of topAI experts have issued a new warning about the existential threat that they believe artificial intelligence poses to humanity. They point to the inability of AI systems to handle even relatively mundane tasks, like driving a carThe statement is…

  • Niantic has a new experience for Quest headsets that features an ‘AI-enabled

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    Niantic has a new experience for Quest headsets that features an ‘AI-enabled Niantic, known for its Pokémon games, shows off its augmented reality technology in a new game called Wol. It’sometric and simple, the game lets you explore the forest with an talking owl. According to Niantic’s Rich Emrich, who created the game, the experience…

  • Nvidia Is the First $1 Trillion Company Thanks to the AI Boom

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    Nvidia Is the First $1 Trillion Company Thanks to the AI Boom Nvidia has just become a $1 trillion company, thanks to its role in creating artificial intelligence tools for companies. Its stock price now opens at over $400 per share, bringing the company’s overall valuation beyond $1 Trn for the first time. Nvidia made…

  • Apple’s Burying of its Past Leads to Its Future Success

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    Apple’s Burying of its Past Leads to Its Future Success In September 1989, according to a news article, Apple buried about 2,700 unsold Lisa computers in Logan. The Logan Landfill, home of the last Lisas. But the main character in our story of theLast Lisas is a former computer salesman named Bob Cook. What possessed…

  • OAuth vulnerability in Expo Framework allows hijacking of accounts

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    OAuth vulnerability in Expo Framework allows hijacking of accounts A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Open Authorization/OAuth implementation of the application development framework Expo.io. Expo, similar to Electron, is an open source platform for developing universal native apps that run on Android, iOS, and the web. It’s worth noting that for the…

  • A new stealthy bandit is targeting web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets.

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    A new stealthy bandit is targeting web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets. A new stealthy information stealer malware called Bandit stealer has emerged that can target web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets. It also establishes persistence by means of Windows registry modifications before beginning its data collection activities. The findings also follow the emergence of several strains…

  • NerfDiff: AI Framework for High-Quality and Consistent Multiple Views Synt

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    NerfDiff: AI Framework for High-Quality and Consistent Multiple Views Synt This paper describes the summary of NerfDiff, a novel AI framework designed to enable high-quality and consistent multiple views from a single input image. It uses a combination of a neural ray field and a 3D-aware conditional diffusion model to achieve this result. The challenge,…