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Google’s AI Now Lets You Wildly Alter Photos Right in Your Camera App
25 Aug

Google’s AI Now Lets You Wildly Alter Photos Right in Your Camera App

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Has Google given up on guardrails?Camera FakeryGoogle's latest AI photo editing tool, called "Reimagine," lets you add or remove objects in a photo using a text prompt — with "uncanny" results, as The Verge reports.The feature, introduced alongside Google's launch of its Pixel 9 smartphone earlier this month, could easily unintentionally undermine the authenticity of photos by allowing anybody to tinker with them right inside the camera app.Examples shared by The Verge's Chris Welch included a photorealistic image of the aftermath of a bike and car collision, a lion prowling behind a locked gate, and a "mystery liquid gushing out…
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25 Aug

In a broken world, I need my fix of watch repairs | AL Kennedy

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Lately, I’ve been lying awake in the small hours, hypnotised by watch repair videos – pinions, train wheel bridges, pallet forks, barrel arbors, the literal works. Am I interested in watches? No. I could only become less interested in horology by slipping into a coma. My wristwatch hasn’t worked in months, and I may never want to know what time it is again – standardised timekeeping just makes people expect things of me and I don’t feel I can currently deliver. I just want to stay quiet and peaceful while people with teeny screwdrivers talk about amplitudes and restore components…
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Can ElevenLabs create custom voices? | KnowTechie
25 Aug

Can ElevenLabs create custom voices? | KnowTechie

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Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. Quick Answer: Yup, ElevenLabs can generate custom voices. ElevenLabs custom voices start at just $5 a month. Anyone With ElevenLabs, creating custom voices is not just a possibility; it’s the core functionality that sets the service apart. Imagine a digital assistant that sounds just like you or an audiobook narrated in a voice you love. Thanks to ElevenLabs, this is no longer science fiction. While…
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Tesla Drivers Say New Self-Driving Update Is Repeatedly Running Red Lights
25 Aug

Tesla Drivers Say New Self-Driving Update Is Repeatedly Running Red Lights

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This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.Traffic JamTesla drivers are saying the latest version of the car company's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) software is making their cars run red lights, alarming anybody concerned about these so-called self-driving cars."Thankfully I stopped it before it ran the light," wrote one Redditor user in a thread with several other Tesla drivers experiencing the same thing, "but hopefully Tesla is aware their software is at a very dangerous level right now.""I've also had that happen once or twice at below 30 mph," another person wrote. "Having trust issues because of it [not gonna lie]."A YouTuber…
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Living with my parents in Hawaii helped me afford the most expensive state. It was the best option for me after graduating.
25 Aug

Living with my parents in Hawaii helped me afford the most expensive state. It was the best option for me after graduating.

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In 2020, I was living with my boyfriend in Austin. As a native Hawaiian, the Texas life proved to be cheaper than island living — from groceries to gas. Plus, having a partner to split bills with gave me more dollars to put toward graduate school.But the relationship suddenly ended, and I was engulfed with the emotional toll of navigating heartbreak on top of online coursework, a full-time job, and the effects of a pandemic.I wanted to go back home to Hawaii but felt overwhelmed by the logistics of closing the distance. Eventually, I got my finances in order and…
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Peloton to ruin the secondhand market by charging a $95 ‘used equipment activation fee’
25 Aug

Peloton to ruin the secondhand market by charging a $95 ‘used equipment activation fee’

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Peloton is in , and we all know what companies do when that happens. They take it out on consumers. To that end, the exercise machine maker just announced it will be charging a $95 “used equipment activation fee” to anyone who buys one of its machines on the secondhand market, .The company made this announcement in its Q4 2024 shareholder letter. The fairly exorbitant fee will apply to any machine bought directly from a previous owner, meaning anything purchased via Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace or, heck, even a neighbor down the street. Without tithing $95 to the church of Peloton,…
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There’s a Humongous Problem With AI Models: They Need to Be Entirely Rebuilt Every Time They’re Updated
25 Aug

There’s a Humongous Problem With AI Models: They Need to Be Entirely Rebuilt Every Time They’re Updated

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"A solution to continual learning is literally a billion-dollar question."Learning GazeA new study highlights a glaring hole in AI models' ability to learn new information: turns out, they can't!According to the study, conducted by a team of scientists at Canada's University of Alberta and published this week in the journal Nature, AI algorithms trained via deep learning — in short, AI models like large language models built by finding patterns in heaps of data — fail to work in "continual learning settings," or when new concepts are introduced to a model's existing training.In other words, if you want to teach an…
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Audience signs and chants at the DNC were all about America. At the RNC, it was the Trump show.
25 Aug

Audience signs and chants at the DNC were all about America. At the RNC, it was the Trump show.

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The Democratic and Republican National Conventions concluded this week, solidifying former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris as their party's respective nominees.But between the partisan speeches and celebrity appearances, the ambiance of the convention — created in part by the design of the stage each candidate spoke on and the signs held by audience members — underscored each party's priorities headed into this year's contentious election.A political scientist told Business Insider the stagecraft and audience participation at the conventions revealed significant differences among both the voters and the candidates themselves."Harris' backdrop was more traditional American imagery while Trump's was…
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