Guillermo Del Toro Still Gets Bitter Over His Scrapped Jabba The Hutt Star Wars Movie
A Godfather-style gangster movie about Star Wars crime boss Jabba the Hutt never got made, but director Guillermo del Toro is only sometimes bitter about it.
Stability AI Releases Generative Audio Model Stable Audio
Harmonai, the audio research lab of Stability AI, has released Stable Audio, a diffusion model for text-controlled audio generation. Stable Audio is trained on 19,500 hours of audio data and can generate 44.1kHz quality audio in realtime using a single...
Major moderation failures by X and Meta highlight election year risks
Major content moderation failures by both X and Meta are serving to underline the risks of both deliberate disinformation and inadvertent misinformation impacting on next year’s presidential elections …
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Apple Store Online expanding to Chile next week, special wallpaper released [U: iPhone 15 launch]
10/16: As scheduled, Apple’s online store is now live in Chile. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro will be available to pre-order in Chile starting Friday, October 20, according to Apple. Story from October 10 follows.
Apple customers in Chile will soo...
New DS 7 Vauban Is A Limited Production Armored Take On The French SUV
Visual Culture and Outer Space Futures
There is a growing awareness of humanity’s precarious place in the universe and an emergent sense that the heavens cannot be conquered.
Apple patent suggests company could increase Vision Pro weight to reduce neck strain
A patent granted today describes a possible way to reduce neck strain when using an Apple headset. It follows a report that the company is concerned about neck fatigue from the Vision Pro’s weight.
Counter-intuitively, the method proposed would mak...
Opinion – The US Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons
While modernizing the US nuclear arsenal is a necessity, adding more nuclear weapons to the US stockpile is a costly and unnecessary endeavour.
Samsung announces warranty extension for Galaxy Enterprise Edition devices
Samsung's Galaxy Enterprise Edition devices come with a two-year commercial warranty, but the Korean brand has announced a warranty extension for the Galaxy Enterprise Edition devices launched in 2023. This includes the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Ultra, G...
‘Warm Snow’, Bilibili’s Chinese Martial Arts-Inspired Roguelite, is Out Now on iOS and Android
Bilibili has officially launched Warm Snow, the studio’s popular roguelite game that has over a million downloads on Steam under …