Writing about the decline of Pitchfork made me sad about the music industry — and also about the state of music discovery. Besides the fact that TikTok doesn’t prioritize music as anything other than background noise, it means that artists have to win the viral lottery in order to make a hit. And that’s entirely out… Read more
read more...You should be playing Music League
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Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp
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Meta is rolling out real-time AI image generation in beta for WhatsApp users in the US. As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you’ll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create. In the example shared by Meta, a… Read more
read more...Netflix’s The Witcher will end with season 5
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Netflix’s The Witcher will end with season 5 / We’re still waiting for our first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt, though. By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Apr 18, 2024, 4:21 PM UTC Share… Read more
read more...At Kernel, your veggie burger will be served by a robot
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In many ways, Kernel resembles other restaurants catering to office workers — it’s a vegan fast-casual joint sitting in an unassuming block of Manhattan, nestled between outposts of Paris Baguette and Just Salad. It has sandwiches. It has sides. It has a smartphone app. It has scheduled pickups. It has… a robotic arm? Kernel, the… Read more
read more...Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
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ChatGPT kicked off the AI chatbot race. Meta is determined to win it. To that end: the Meta AI assistant, introduced last September, is now being integrated into the search box of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. It’s also going to start appearing directly in the main Facebook feed. You can still chat with it… Read more
read more...How to tame notifications on your Android phone
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Notifications are the soundtrack to modern digital life. When they’re out of control, they make it hard to hear anything else going on. But if you manage them well, you can turn them into a subtle background noise. App developers want you to opt in to every notification possible, but thankfully, Android provides a lot… Read more
read more...Stability AI lays off roughly 10 percent of its workforce
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Stability AI laid off 20 employees just a day after announcing the expansion of access to its new flagship model. This comes after weeks of upheaval that saw its founding CEO leave the company. CNBC reports that the layoffs at the UK-based AI company, which runs the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model, represent roughly 10 percent… Read more
read more...Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI
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AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try to make it happen even faster. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called “Platforms and Devices” that will oversee all of Google’s Pixel products, all of Android, Chrome,… Read more
read more...Apple is making progress cleaning up its dirty supply chain
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Apple’s latest sustainability report shows that its greenhouse gas emissions are falling as it pushes suppliers to clean up their operations. Dig into the data in the report, and you’ll find that Apple’s gross carbon dioxide emissions dropped from 20.6 million metric tons in 2022 to 16.1 million metric tons in 2023. That’s a 22 percent reduction… Read more
read more...Transformers One turns Cybertron’s greatest warriors into bumbling youths in first trailer
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Paramount’s live-action Transformers movies have always made its alien robots seem like they were born ready for battle and knowing how to navigate the world, but the first trailer for director Josh Cooley’s Transformers One animated prequel reveals that to be anything but the case. Set in the distant past on the Cybertronian homeworld, Transformers… Read more
read more...Make robots hairy
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On Wednesday, Boston Dynamics announced the new version of its Atlas robot with a characteristically unsettling video. In it, a humanoid android lifts itself up from the floor by bending its legs backward and then swivels its fathomless void of a head a full 180 degrees like it’s Linda Blair in The Exorcist. The footage… Read more
read more...Apple is finally rolling out AirPlay in hotel rooms
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After some delay, Apple is finally bringing AirPlay to hotel room TVs — but you can only use it if you’re staying in one of the “more than” 60 IHG hotels it’s available in starting today. Apple first announced the ability to use AirPlay in hotels with LG TVs during its Worldwide Developer Conference in… Read more
read more...Apple’s new series Sunny pairs Rashida Jones with a mystery-solving robot
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Apple TV Plus has been killing it on the sci-fi front lately, but this summer, the streamer’s taking another stab at the murder mystery genre with Sunny, a new A24-produced series from showrunner Katie Robbins, director Lucy Tcherniak, and executive producer Rashida Jones. Based on Colin O’Sullivan’s novel The Dark Manual, Sunny revolves around Suzie… Read more
read more...US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
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The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot’s seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced a human pilot during an in-air dogfight test carried out last year. DARPA began experimenting with AI applications in December 2022 as part of its… Read more
read more...Richard Linklater’s Hit Man looks like a goofy roleplaying romcom in new trailer
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The idea of pretending to be a contract killer while working undercover for the police sounds stressful as hell, but the first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Hit Man makes the gig seem like a fun way to work out those improv muscles. Loosely based on journalist Skip Hollandsworth’s 2001 Texas Monthly article by the same… Read more
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