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Midjourney has banned journalist who created Trump images

A journalist suspects that he has been banned from using the text-to-image service Midjourney after he used the service to generate a dozen images of former US President Donald Trump being arrested by police. Eliot Higgins, who founded the investigative news service Bellingcat, recently posted a series of images depicting what it might look like […]

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Bob Metcalfe wins the Turing Award

The Association for Computing Machinery announced yesterday that this year’s A.M. Turing Award, a prize often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” is being awarded to network pioneer Bob Metcalfe. Metcalfe is perhaps best known for developing Ethernet, the standard protocol that governs how computers connect in wired networks. Metcalfe began working on […]

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AI Whisperers Wanted. The Rise of Prompt Engineering

Barely has AI surfaced as a viable tool for businesses and individuals, it has already created a demand for a new type of job: AI whisperer. As we currently know and understand it, AI, with its Large Language Models (LLM), can supplant humans in a variety of jobs. Many believe that it can simulate creativity […]

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Counter-Strike 2 has now been announced

Yesterday it happened, 24 years after the original was released, Valve announced Counter-Strike 2. The game will run on Valve’s Source 2 engine and the plan is for it to be released sometime during the summer. This new game will offer better graphics than any previous Counter-Strike game and the characters’ animations will also be […]

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WhatsApp gets a new Windows app

WhatsApp is now getting an updated Windows app with improved performance and calling features. The new version of the app also gets support for syncing multiple devices so that you can use WhatsApp even if your phone is turned off. It’s possible to make video calls with up to eight people and voice calls with […]

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Github presents Copilot X

Microsoft’s code service Github has showcased a successor to Copilot, an AI-driven programming assistant that they introduced on the platform last year. The new programming assistant is called “Copilot X” and, just like its predecessor, is based on AI technology from OpenAI. Copilot X uses OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-4, to assist users in writing […]

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Miniot releases Wheel 2

The Dutch company Miniot has now released a new version of its turntable Wheel, a slightly different vinyl player where the underside of the record that is placed in the turntable is played by the turntable. Wheel 2 can be placed both vertically and horizontally, which may make it a fun addition to home design […]

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Ubisoft will use AI to write dialogue in their games

The game publisher Ubisoft, behind game series such as “Assassin’s Creed”, “Far Cry” and “Ghost Recon”, has just announced that they will use an AI tool to assist their developers in writing dialogue for their games. The tool, Ubisoft Ghostwriter, will generate dialogue between computer-controlled characters using artificial intelligence, and according to Ubisoft, it was […]