Users may now tag a movie or TV show in their videos on TikTok thanks to a collaboration with the online movie database IMDb. The link takes users to a special in-app page containing details from IMDb regarding the given title as well as a selection of relevant TikTok videos. …
Read More »Kickboxing sessions, sleep meditation, and more will be added to Apple Fitness+
For the new year, Apple has revealed that its Fitness+ service will add new kickboxing workouts, a sleep meditation theme, artist spotlights, and more. Kickboxing will be added by the organization on January 9. Every workout will begin with a unique round of moves, followed by a final round that …
Read More »At CES, Sony and Honda debut Afeela, their joint electric vehicle brand
The Afeela prototype was unveiled by Sony and Honda over a year after the two firms announced their intentions to jointly produce and market electric automobiles. The four-door sedan was demonstrated on stage at CES on Wednesday as Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida discussed the company’s mobility strategy, which places a …
Read More »Finally Operational: Giant “Water Battery” in the Swiss Alps
After 14 years of building, a huge “water battery” in the Swiss Alps is now fully functional. The Nant de Drance Hydropower Plant has a storage capacity of 400,000 automobile batteries. We have an issue with renewable energy sources: what to do when more electricity is produced than we actually …
Read More »Soon, you’ll be able to use your smartphone to run holograms
The world market for computers will reach its peak in 1943, according to Thomas Watson, the head of IBM, with “maybe five” machines. He was mistaken—face let’s it, you probably have more than that in your own home—but it made reasonable at the time. After all, you probably wouldn’t need …
Read More »In an expanded agreement, Stellantis will mass construct Archer’s electric aircraft
As part of a broadened partnership, the world’s largest automaker Stellantis will mass produce an electric vehicle take-off and landing aircraft for Archer Aviation and grant the startup company, which recently went public, access to an additional $150 million in funding over the following two years. The deal would make …
Read More »A $100 million settlement between Coinbase and background check irregularities
The well-known cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was found to have broken anti-money laundering regulations by not carrying out sufficient background checks, according to New York finance officials. Coinbase must spend an additional $50 million on enhancing its compliance program in addition to paying a $50 million fine to the New York …
Read More »An open source replacement for ChatGPT is now available, but good luck maintaining it
It’s now possible to run the first open source alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on your laptop, but good luck with that. PaLM + RLHF, a text-generating model that functions similarly to ChatGPT, was released this week by Philip Wang, the developer in charge of deconstructing closed-sourced AI systems like Meta’s …
Read More »How China is creating a parallel reality with generative AI
Chinese IT firms race to compete with Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2, but obstacles remain. Everyone is thrilled about the future of AI because to the enormous technological advancement that machine learning models have demonstrated in recent months, but they are also concerned about its unfavorable effects. The potential of …
Read More »By banning TikTok, India created a “extremely important precedent,” according to the FCC Commissioner
“Bye-bye, giants. The FCC’s Brendan Carr cautioned that TikTok “operates as a sophisticated monitoring tool” and said that banning the social media app is the “logical next step in our efforts to safeguard communication networks.” The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission expressed concern that China could utilize private …
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