Last month, a photo of Pope Francis wearing a Balenciaga parka shocked the world. The image was posted to Reddit by a user (who was high on magic mushrooms) and, though it looked real enough to fool a large cross-section of Twitter, it was actually created by Midjourney, a generative-AI tool that turns text into images.
But Balenciaga pope is only the tip of the celebrity deepfake iceberg. Users have been using a whole suite of AI tools, including a sophisticated bit of audio clonin
Twitter’s ongoing decline and chaotic confusion continues as the app has now introduced features that block or downplay in the algorithm any posts containing links to newsletter platform Substack.
The change comes hot on the heels of Substack announcing Notes, a feature that allows Substack users to share short-form posts of similar length to tweets that can be interacted with similarly to posts on Twitter, earlier this week. Users currently can’t retweet or reply to t
America’s employers added a solid 236,000 jobs in March, suggesting that the economy remains on solid footing despite the nine interest rate hikes the Federal Reserve has imposed over the past year in its drive to tame inflation.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, just above the 53-year low of 3.4% set in January.
At the same time, some of the details of Friday’s report from the Labor Department raised the possibility that inflationary pressures might be eas
Much remains unknown about the killing of Bob Lee, the 43-year-old MobileCoin executive and Cash App founder who was found fatally stabbed in San Francisco’s downtown Rincon Hill neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
The San Francisco Standard said it had reviewed surveillance footage that showed Lee calling 911 and pleading for help from someone in a parked car, who drove off leaving the tech founder collapsed on the street. Police haven’t made arrests or named a suspec
In recent days, a group of nearly 10,000 scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and academics have signed an open letter calling for a pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. In a short span of time, we have seen huge developments within the AI space, both good and bad. As a computer science engineer, I know firsthand that the innovations we are seeing in AI have been coming for some time. While some developments are quite concerning, if used responsibly, these technologies
An unnerving report by Reuters says that multiple Tesla employees regularly shared videos and images captured by Tesla owners’ cars for purposes not related to work. That’s according to nine former Tesla employees who spoke to the news organization. The videos and images were captured by the multiple cameras built into Tesla vehicles that are designed to help assist in driving.
Among the videos and images allegedly shared by Tesla employees—reportedly across an
Companies have been using AI to help with everything from graphic design to healthcare. Now we can add food photography to the list.
Swipeby, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based startup that provides online ordering tools for businesses like restaurants, recently launched an AI text-to-photo app for its customers. Named Snapshot, the tool uses Open AI and Stability AI text-to-photo technology to create images of menu items based on descriptions of the food. Using a list of ingredi
These days, employers and recruiters are equally, if not more, interested in a candidate’s abilities than where they’ve worked or studied. For job seekers, that means it’s more important than ever to properly market a skillset on LinkedIn, a place where more than 4,500 job applications are submitted every minute.
Sure, you studied accounting in college 10 years ago. But do you know the latest features in QuickBooks, and can you prove it? Perhaps you’re a
Those Echo Dots you’ve got sprinkled all throughout your house can do so much more than just setting timers and playing music.
Amazon’s got an entire app store of sorts just for Alexa. They’re called Alexa Skills and they’re… well, they’re hit or miss to put it diplomatically. And there are a lot of them. Here are some of the ones that are well worth your time.
Find My Phone
A lifesaver for you phone-forgetters out there, the F
Tyreek Hill is a Super Bowl champion, has played in the Pro Bowl seven times, and was named to the NFL’s 2010s All-Decade Team. But the 29-year old’s passions these days are leaning more towards esports than traditional ones.
Hill, who’s currently a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, has announced his plans to retire from the NFL when his contract runs out at the end of the 2025 season. Even more shocking for fans, though, is what he says he plans to do next: