Amazon brings new AI-driven features to Thursday Night Football
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Amazon brings new AI-driven features to Thursday Night Football

By Lauren Forristal – Aug 25, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch As Amazon’s Prime Video gears up for its second year as the exclusive rights holder to NFL’s Thursday Night Football (TNF), the streaming service hopes to give fans a more enhanced viewing experience with a slew of new AI-driven features. During…

AI-produced artworks no match for those by ‘real’ artists
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AI-produced artworks no match for those by ‘real’ artists

By ETX Daily Up – Aug 15, 2023 A version of this article was first published on FreeMalaysiaToday PARIS: Artificial intelligence programmes like Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are enjoying great success thanks to their ability to create images from a few lines of text. Their creations impress as much as they raise questions, leading to fears…

Where will your old electronic devices be in the next 10 years?
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Where will your old electronic devices be in the next 10 years?

By FMT Reporters – 18 Jul, 2023 A version of this article was first published on Free Malaysia Today Electronic devices have become an integral part of everyday life. We navigate traffic with them, indulge in entertainment on them, and even use them to capture memories. However, with the rapid advancement of technology comes a…

Face-to-face translation tool being tested in Tokyo
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Face-to-face translation tool being tested in Tokyo

By ETX Daily Up – July 18, 2023 A version of this article was first published on FreeMalaysiaToday PARIS: In Japan, a new type of multilingual device is currently being tested in a Tokyo train station. It enables users to converse face-to-face with a transport company agent, while speaking their own language, and seeing the…

Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class
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Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class

By Kyle Wiggers – July 14, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Over the past two years, AI-powered image generators have become commodified, more or less, thanks to the widespread availability of — and decreasing technical barriers around — the tech. They’ve been deployed by practically every major tech player,…

Simbe’s inventory robots score $28 million in funding
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Simbe’s inventory robots score $28 million in funding

By Brian Heater – July 13, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Inventory robots are having a moment. Two days back, Swiss firm Verity announced an $11 million raise. That followed a $20 million round from fellow drone inventory startup B Garage, which, in turn, arrived two days after Gather AI announced it had acquired…

Meet the 19-year-old MIT dropout ‘replacing gunpowder’ for the defense industry
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Meet the 19-year-old MIT dropout ‘replacing gunpowder’ for the defense industry

By Aria Alamalhodaei– Jul 13, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Silicon Valley loves its wunderkinds, but the same cannot be said of Washington, D.C., where the central mandate is not to take risks, but to de-risk. Or that’s how it’s been until recently. The two American power centers have…

Halo.Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas
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Halo.Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas

By Rebecca Bellan – Jun 29, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Halo.Car, a startup that uses remote operators to deliver rental cars to a customer’s door, has launched driverless operations in Las Vegas. Driverless operations mean something different for Halo than they do for autonomous vehicle companies like Cruise or Waymo because Halo’s…