The web3 startup Nillion, which aims to create a decentralized network that is not based on a blockchain, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the firm exclusively revealed to TechCrunch. According to Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, “Nillion is a deep technical infrastructure project.” …
Read More »Twitter begins rolling out its Community Notes feature globally
Community Notes are now accessible worldwide, according to a tweet from Twitter over the weekend. The social media giant uses a mechanism called Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, to crowdsource fact-checking. Users can use the tool to contextualize tweets, and it uses an open-source methodology to disprove false information. …
Read More »A New AI Tool Captures Your Image in the Past Hundreds Of Years
It’s fun to imagine what Henry VIII or Tutankhamun would look like today if you could drag them into the present, but what about the reverse? What would it appear like if you traveled back in time and confronted them there? In partnership with AI image generation experts Astria, online …
Read More »After Falling From A Cruise Ship, Man Is Discovered Alive More Than 15 Hours Later
You might anticipate falling from a cruise ship to be a fatal mishap, and it seems much less possible that you would survive being lost at sea for a whole night. Despite rescuers’ estimates that he had been lost at sea for more than 15 hours, a man who was …
Read More »According to Twitter, it is no longer preventing any COVID-19 misinformation
On November 23, Twitter declared that it would no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy and would not take any action against any tweets that did so. Due to the inherent health dangers, the site has previously taken a strong anti-misinformation stance. However, under new guidance from Elon Musk, Twitter …
Read More »Within the next few decades, space elevators? According to one expert
One aerospace engineer and physics professor claims that space elevators—yes, actual elevators that will lift humans into orbit—might not be as far off from reality as we think. His theories suggest that such a far-fetched idea might become a reality soon; in his wise words: “We’ll know we’re near when …
Read More »Neuralink, according to Elon Musk, will be ready for humans in six months
According to Elon Musk, his brain device Neuralink is ready for human use and may start human testing as soon as it receives US Food and Drug Administration certification (FDA). Musk made a number of audacious assertions about the potential of the implant during a “show and tell” of the …
Read More »Now Featuring “Party Mode,” NASA’s Lunar Landing Spacecraft
The space tourism industry is expected to grow significantly over the next ten years, but corporations still need to do more to make the trip exciting. It’s true that you are traveling through space on a hydrogen-powered fireball at a speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour (17,000 miles per …
Read More »The majority of the walk buttons don’t actually do anything, so stop pressing them
Vaughn Langless revealed to investigators for Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News in 2003 that “in 1987, I was involved with the refurbishment of an office facility in Rochester, New York, to make facilities for about 200 telemarketers’ cubicles.” New rooftop heaters and air-handling systems were installed as part of …
Read More »An AI tool can instantly and smoothly de-age actors’ faces for movies
Researchers at Disney Research Studios have created a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can subtly age or reverse the aging of persons in video footage. The tool, known as the face re-aging network (FRAN), will be able to make actors appear older or younger for movie scenes set in …
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