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Meta’s new AI can turn text prompts into videos

Although the effect is rather crude, the system offers an early glimpse of what’s coming next for generative artificial intelligence, and it is the next obvious step from the text-to-image AI systems... Read more »

Meta’s new AI can make video based on text prompts

Although the effect is rather crude, the system offers an early glimpse of what’s coming next for generative artificial intelligence, and it is the next obvious step from the text-to-image AI systems... Read more »

The Download: Amazon’s home-guarding robot, and covid’s violent legacy

In the latest episode of our podcast, In Machines We Trust, we dig into the world of digital twins: AI-powered replicas designed to capture the physical look and expressions of real humans.... Read more »

How AI is helping birth digital humans that look and sound just like us

Jennifer: And the team has also been exploring how these digital twins can be useful beyond the 2D world of a video conference.  Greg Cross: I guess the.. the big, you know,... Read more »

Amazon has a new plan for its home robot Astro: to guard your life

Still, last year’s pitch was that Astro could be a home assistant to make your life more comfortable and entertaining—a sort of cute, bumbling sidekick. This year, Amazon has recast Astro as... Read more »

A bionic pancreas could solve one of the biggest challenges of diabetes

The bionic pancreas, a credit card-sized device called an iLet, monitors a person’s levels around the clock and automatically delivers insulin when needed through a tiny cannula, a thin tube inserted into... Read more »

Growth means composability, brick by brick

Composability is increasingly available. “Achieving composability a decade ago was hard, expensive, and proprietary,” says Janakiram MSV, analyst at Janakiram & Associates. In this atmosphere, failing to make the change may be... Read more »

The Download: China’s non-coup, and building better batteries

If you’re on Twitter and follow news about China, you likely have heard a pretty wild rumor recently: that President Xi Jinping was under house arrest and that there was about to... Read more »

The pandemic created a “perfect storm” for Black women at risk of domestic violence

Being able to work remotely at her job at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic made the transition easier. She got an apartment and he moved in, and she hoped for the... Read more »

How one vineyard is using AI to improve its winemaking

Pinot Grigio actually makes a white wine and it’s won a few varieties in California that, uh, is a pretty common variety that actually we make purple grapes that make a white... Read more »