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Ancestra says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos
After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt’s new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. Many of the shots were made and refined solely with prompts, in collaboration with Google’s DeepMind team. It’s obvious what Darren Aronofsky’s AI-focused Primordial Soup production house and Google stand to gain from the normalization…
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Custom ROM Support Just Got a Lot Worse on Google Pixel Phones
Summary Google intentionally omitted Pixel device trees from Android 16, making custom ROM development much harder. Developers now face challenges like reverse engineering and potential hardware components breaking on custom ROMs. Google’s shift towards using “Cuttlefish” as a primary reference target may negatively impact long-term device support. Custom ROMs are not something I think about a lot anymore when I…
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For developers, Apple’s tools get a lot better for AI – Computerworld
There was something missing from Xcode, and that was a tool called Swift Assist. Apple announced that tool, which was intended to help developers write code using AI, at WWDC last year. It possibly reflects some of the failures of Apple’s internal AI development projects that the tool hasn’t yet shipped, and the introduction of support for ChatGPT hints that perhaps it…
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Prime Video reportedly doubling the amount of ads you’ll see — streaming just got a lot worse
Remember the streaming dream we were sold of unlimited ad-free movies and TV shows compared to the commercial-stuffed days of cable? I’m starting to feel like we bought a lemon, because it appears that Amazon’s Prime Video has quietly increased the number of ads on its content. According to a report by Adweek, Prime Video has almost doubled the number…
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‘This is the largest AI ecosystem in the world without its own infrastructure’: Jensen Huang thinks the UK has immense AI potential – but it still has a lot of work to do
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said the UK has enormous AI potential but needs significant infrastructure buildout to make the most of it. Speaking alongside UK prime minister Keir Starmer at London Tech Week, Huang insisted that building AI supercomputers in the UK will be necessary to kickstart investment. “The UK is in a Goldilocks circumstance,” Huang said, explaining that…
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A lot of Logitech products cost more now than two months ago
Many of Logitech’s products are pricier now than they were in the recent past. In a video published this week, YouTuber Cameron Dougherty detailed increases as high as 25 percent on the company’s PC and gaming accessories, including well-known Logitech gear like the MX Master 3S mouse. I took a peek at a few Internet Archive captures of Logitech’s current…
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Samsung’s Gallery App Can Do a Lot More Than You Think
The gallery app that comes pre-installed on your Samsung phone is more than just storage for your photos and videos. It comes with all sorts of tools designed to make your gallery experience better that you might not even know about. Here are some worth checking out. Doodle Perfect Shapes Without a Stylus Most gallery apps allow you to draw…
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Nine Tricks That Make Painting Any Room a Lot Easier
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Paint is among the cheapest of home renovations—it freshens things, covers old chips and scratches, and it can make your whole house feel brand new in just a few days. Even if you hire someone to paint a room, the cost isn’t entirely prohibitive—between $350 and $850, on average, per…
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Meta wants everyone to know that it, too, is investing a lot in AI
In his Facebook post this week, Zuckerberg wrote that Meta will also “significantly” grow out its AI teams and will build an “AI engineer” AI agent that will contribute code to Meta’s R&D efforts. Planned investments for this year already represent a 50% increase over the company’s 2024 spending, and Zuckerberg noted, “we have the capital to continue investing in…
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Your Exercise Bike Knows a Lot About You—and It Doesn’t Keep Secrets
So, what are these companies doing with all this workout data they’re collecting? Who else can see or use it? Well, apart from Kinomap, which specifically says it shares information with the International Olympic Committee, it’s hard to say for sure. (Kinomap didn’t respond to a question from CR about this.) In most cases, your data could be shared with a…
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