Adobe has been eclipsed by the DALL-E revolution
Adobe can still conjure magical demos, but it falls flat in the era of text-to-image technology. Every year, Adobe releases some advanced technology demonstrations at Adobe MAX, its creative tools lovefest. They are a sneak peek at the tools that pe.....»»
AI Games and AI Film Festival will highlight how generative AI is taking root
Get ready for the AI revolution. A group of companies is staging The Culture AI Games and Film Festival on May 9 in San Francisco. Get ready for the AI revolution. A group of companies is staging The Culture AI Games and Film Festival on May 9 in.....»»
Don’t be fooled by a pretty icon, malicious apps hide in plain sight
Apps, whether for communication, productivity or gaming, are one of the biggest threats to mobile security, according to McAfee. The end of 2022 saw the release of some game-changing applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and DALL-E 2 image.....»»
DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can be a boon for industrial designers
AI lets designers input abstract concepts and turn them into a flood of images. Enlarge / A volcano-themed tissue box designed with the help of AI-assisted image generation (credit: Juan Nougera (CC-BY-SA)) Since the int.....»»
Night skies are getting 9.6% brighter every year as light pollution erases stars for everyone
For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars began to disappear......»»
How Bill Gates’ Minesweeper addiction helped lead to the Xbox
Book excerpt: Convincing early '90s Microsoft to sell games was an uphill battle. Enlarge / These little numbers helped launch a gaming revolution at corporate-focused Microsoft of the early '90s. (credit: Microsoft / Reddit).....»»
LG UltraGear OLED 27 review: the OLED revolution is here
With excellent motion clarity and color, the LG UltraGear OLED 27 sets a high bar for gaming monitors in 2023......»»
EVs in India: logistics is where revolution is
The Indian EV market is expanding at a rapid pace as more and more car owners embrace technology for convenience and cost-efficiency. The Indian government has ambitious plans to grow EVs significantly by the decade's end. In line with this, major au.....»»
The US plan to become the world’s cleantech superpower
Biden’s revolution in industrial policy is a gamble with geopolitical ramifications. Enlarge (credit: David McNew/Getty Images) In a huge hangar in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, welders are aiming blazing torches at she.....»»
Adobe rolls out updates to Premiere Pro, expands speech-to-text language support
Adobe has updated Premiere, its popular video editing app, adding support for Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish speech-to-text, bringing the total supported languages to 16.Image Credit: AdobeIn addition to the updated speech-to-text tool, Premiere also.....»»
Adobe"s Figma buy blocked, until EU decides if it can proceed
Anti-trust regulators in the European Commission are going to assess Adobe's recent decision to acquire design rival Figma to see if it would decrease competition.The EU will assess the Figma buyoutAdobe announced the beginning of a "definitive merge.....»»
Real-time Ubuntu is now available for the first time
Real-time Ubuntu promises performance, low latency, and security in preparation for what many call the fourth industrial revolution......»»
Can clay capture carbon dioxide?
The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide—a gas that is great at trapping heat, contributing to climate change—is almost double what it was prior to the Industrial Revolution, yet it only constitutes 0.0415% of the air we breathe......»»
Forget Dall-E, you can sign up to create AI-generated videos now
As impressive as AI image and text generation are, they pale in comparison to the wow factor of video that gets the same treatment......»»
Ram EV will be called 1500 REV
The company calls the REV a "direct descendant" of the 1500 Revolution concept it showed last month at the CES expo in Las Vegas......»»
Adobe Acrobat to power Microsoft Edge"s free PDF reader
Adobe and Microsoft partnership means Edge will get an upgraded PDF reader powered by the Acrobat engine......»»
Generative AI: A benefit and a hazard
If there’s one thing people will remember about AI advances in 2022, it’ll be the advent of sophisticated generative models: DALL.E 2, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, ChatGPT. They all made headlines – and they will change the way we.....»»
Tracing the evolution of wheat spikes since the Neolithic revolution
About 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. With the beginning of the cultivation of cereals, such as wheat and barley, and.....»»
Digital revolution inspires new research direction in ecosystem structural diversity
A special issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment lays the foundation for pursuing structural diversity as a new research direction in ecology. The issue also describes the digital data collection methods that enable the new res.....»»
The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here?
A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. Enlarge / This image was partially AI-generated with the prompt "a pair of robot hands holding pencils drawing a pair of human hands, oil painti.....»»
40 years ago, Apple’s original Macintosh started a revolution
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer, it changed how we interacted with machines forever......»»