In a company the size of Microsoft, with divisions in dozens of countries, it is very hard for every regional team to not make mistakes at the same time. This is why, quite often, we find information before we are supposed to not in London or New York, but in a less populated area. Today is just such a circumstance. Microsoft New Zealand, in preparation for the coming Tech Ed conference, had two Windows Phone 7....
Jeff Hamilton, an artist who goes by the acronym “XVALA” — though no one is quite sure what it stands for — has been dumpster diving through the trash cans of Silicon Valley’s tech stars. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Google’s Larry Page as well as former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs have all had their discarded belongings raided for potential additions to Hamilton’s “Tabloid Art”, theLos Angeles Timesreports. Anything from coat hangers to empty booze bottles and spread sheets are sorted through and manipulated to represent some controversial message....
As a talentless artist who likes to imagine myself as a masterful painter, I always appreciate AI tools that turn my embarrassing sketches into masterpieces. Computer artistGlenn Marshallrecently developed one of my favorite techniques yet: a text-to-image generator that transforms any picture into the style of famous artists. The system morphs an input image towards the suggestion of a text prompt, such as “Salvador Dalí Art.” Over repeated mutations and iterations of each frame, the AI gradually finds features and shapes that match the text description until it produces a final composition....
New AI tool detects child sexual abuse material with ‘99% precision’ Safer is already being used by Flickr and Slack How Safer works The system detects abusive content on a platform by searching for digital fingerprints called hashes. When it finds these hashes, it compares them to a dataset of millions of images and videos of abusive material. If the content hasn’t been previously reported, algorithms trained on abusive material determine whether it’s likely to be CSAM....
Nowthe AirTags are finally out, we need new unreleased Apple products to obsess over. So, please make some noise for the new AirPods and HiFi Apple Music! Here’s the meat: a YouTuber with no real leaking history has said Apple will release the aforementioned productson May 18viaa press release. Should you believe this? Umm, kinda? We know for certain that Apple’s going to release new AirPods at some point. I mean, the true wireless earbuds are so successful they outstrip the earnings of entire companies:...
