๐ฎ๐ณ Apple opens first Store in India //
Apple BKC has been designed to be one of the most energy-efficient Apple Store locations in the world, and it is operationally carbon neutral, running on 100% renewable energy.
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Apple BKC has been designed to be one of the most energy-efficient Apple Store locations in the world, and it is operationally carbon neutral, running on 100% renewable energy.
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Apple opens first Store in India with focus on sustainability and community
Apple is opening today its first retail store in India, named Apple BKC, located in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex.
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๐ Firefly in video tools //
Adobe's Firefly AI comes to its Creative Cloud video and audio applications.
The technology will help users edit videos in a few words, generate sounds, music, animated logos, and more. Firefly will also read scripts and automatically generate storyboards.
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Adobe's Firefly AI comes to its Creative Cloud video and audio applications.
The technology will help users edit videos in a few words, generate sounds, music, animated logos, and more. Firefly will also read scripts and automatically generate storyboards.
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๐ Sideloading //
Apple will allow users to install third-party App Stores to comply with laws in particular EU countries.
With iOS 17 releasing this summer users can download apps outside of the official App Store, according to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg. But for now it's not clear, how it's gonna work.
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Apple will allow users to install third-party App Stores to comply with laws in particular EU countries.
With iOS 17 releasing this summer users can download apps outside of the official App Store, according to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg. But for now it's not clear, how it's gonna work.
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iOS 17 to enable the downloading of apps outside of App Store
It will be released at the WWDC 2023, which will be held from 5 to 9 June.
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๐ท AI in photocontest //
German artist refused photography award after his AI-generated image won top prize.
It's unclear whether the organizers were aware that the image was AI-generated, but the controversy highlights the increasing presence of AI in art and photography.
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German artist refused photography award after his AI-generated image won top prize.
It's unclear whether the organizers were aware that the image was AI-generated, but the controversy highlights the increasing presence of AI in art and photography.
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German artist refuses photography award after his AI-generated image wins top prize
The issue happended at the Sony World Photography Awards.
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Wednesday! Let's go!
// Instagram's 'Link in Bio' now allows up to five links
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// Republicans seek TikTok ban for lawmakers
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๐ถ๏ธ Lockdown Foils Spies //
Citizen Lab found evidence that Apple's Lockdown Mode blocked an NSO Group spyware attack against Mexican human rights defenders and identified three new zero-day exploits in iOS.
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Citizen Lab found evidence that Apple's Lockdown Mode blocked an NSO Group spyware attack against Mexican human rights defenders and identified three new zero-day exploits in iOS.
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NSO spyware was blocked by Apple's high-security mode
According to researchers, they have discovered proof that a functionality known as Lockdown Mode effectively prevented a cyberattack from hackers who utilized spyware created by the notorious NSO Group, a mercenary hacking service.
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๐ Tweaked LGBTQ+ Protections //
Twitter removed protection for trans individuals and has become more hostile towards LGBTQ+ individuals since Elon Musk took over.
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Twitter removed protection for trans individuals and has become more hostile towards LGBTQ+ individuals since Elon Musk took over.
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Twitter silently drops misgendering policy for trans individuals
Twitter no longer prohibits targeted deadnaming or misgendering of transgender people in its updated content moderation guidelines regarding hateful content.
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๐ Apple in the AI race //
Apple has recently released a paper entitled "FaceLit: Neural 3D Relightable Faces," which outlines a new method for multi-perspective illumination of both real and generated faces.
Twitter users are suggesting that this development could be related to a new photo feature for the iPhone or a warm-up for Apple's entry into the AR/VR.
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Apple has recently released a paper entitled "FaceLit: Neural 3D Relightable Faces," which outlines a new method for multi-perspective illumination of both real and generated faces.
Twitter users are suggesting that this development could be related to a new photo feature for the iPhone or a warm-up for Apple's entry into the AR/VR.
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๐ค GPT for finance //
Bloomberg has developed its own AI model, BloombergGPT, for finance.
It could write headlines based on annotations and prompt journalists, financiers and other interested parties with the required business information.
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Bloomberg has developed its own AI model, BloombergGPT, for finance.
It could write headlines based on annotations and prompt journalists, financiers and other interested parties with the required business information.
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Bloomberg has developed its own AI model, BloombergGPT, based on the technology behind OpenAI's GPT
BloombergGPT is capable of answering questions related to finance and business.
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๐ฅ This video doesn't exist //
It was completely generated by AI.
Video is a result of a new NVIDIA Toronto lab research on text-to-video neural models.
New Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) generate high-quality videos, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
This isn't Hollywood yet, but that's a start.
Text prompt to the video: "A teddy bear is playing the electric guitar, high definition, 4k."
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It was completely generated by AI.
Video is a result of a new NVIDIA Toronto lab research on text-to-video neural models.
New Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) generate high-quality videos, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
This isn't Hollywood yet, but that's a start.
Text prompt to the video: "A teddy bear is playing the electric guitar, high definition, 4k."
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It's Thursday!
// Google workers criticize AI chatbot Bard
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// Snapchat adds live location sharing and ChatGPT integration for all users
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// Google workers criticize AI chatbot Bard
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๐ NASA's Lunar Simulation in a Diving Tank //
NASA is building a Moon replica in a diving tank to prepare astronauts for their historic Artemis 3 mission.
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NASA is building a Moon replica in a diving tank to prepare astronauts for their historic Artemis 3 mission.
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NASA building giant underwater moon replica
NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, with a capacity of 6.2 million gallons, now serves as a training ground for astronauts headed to the moon.
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๐ธ Reaping the Benefits //
Meta will pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit over Facebook's granting of access to private user data to third parties without their consent, and eligible users can claim a portion of the settlement.
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Meta will pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit over Facebook's granting of access to private user data to third parties without their consent, and eligible users can claim a portion of the settlement.
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How to claim your share of the $725 million that Facebook owes us
American Facebook users who held an active account from May 2007 to December 2022 may receive some cash for free.
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๐บAnimated WhatsApp //
WhatsApp to introduce its own version of animated emoji, following in the footsteps of its competitor Telegram.
However, as per the beta version of WhatsApp users may not have control over turning off the animation.
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WhatsApp to introduce its own version of animated emoji, following in the footsteps of its competitor Telegram.
However, as per the beta version of WhatsApp users may not have control over turning off the animation.
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WhatsApp experiments with animated emojis, following Telegram's lead
WhatsApp is expected to add animated emojis feature in a future update of the app.
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๐ฆ๐ช 'House of the Future' //
Dubai launches international architecture ideas competition: 'House of the Future'.
The competition aims to encourage architects and designers from around the world to create highly-affordable, expandable, innovative, and aesthetically-pleasing houses suited to modern Emirati needs.
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Dubai launches international architecture ideas competition: 'House of the Future'.
The competition aims to encourage architects and designers from around the world to create highly-affordable, expandable, innovative, and aesthetically-pleasing houses suited to modern Emirati needs.
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Dubai launches 'House of the Future' competition to design innovative and affordable housing
The main aim is to encourage architects and designers from around the world to create houses suited to modern Emirati needs.
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๐ Another try //
SpaceXโs first Starship and also the worldโs most powerful rocket are go for launch in half an hour.
Watch the official broadcast.
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SpaceXโs first Starship and also the worldโs most powerful rocket are go for launch in half an hour.
Watch the official broadcast.
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SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket, but then it started to flip and exploded after the first two mins.
Bad things happen, but the launch was a success.
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// Google to merge Brain and DeepMind into a single team for major AI advancement
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// The blue check mark era on Twitter has come to an end
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๐๏ธ The Fast and the Fabricated //
Magazine publishes false AI-generated quotes attributed to Michael Schumacher, leading to legal action by his family.
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Magazine publishes false AI-generated quotes attributed to Michael Schumacher, leading to legal action by his family.
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Family of Michael Schumacher to take legal action over an AI-generated 'interview'
The family of Michael Schumacher is intending to take legal action against a magazine that released an interview supposedly conducted by an artificial intelligence program with the retired Formula 1 driver.
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๐ Next-gen game graphics //
The recently published official trailer of the game 'Unrecord' has struck audiences with its realism.
For those who thought 'Unrecord' was fake, a game developer Spindler posted a revealing video. Seems, only a public beta will decide.
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The recently published official trailer of the game 'Unrecord' has struck audiences with its realism.
For those who thought 'Unrecord' was fake, a game developer Spindler posted a revealing video. Seems, only a public beta will decide.
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