You can celebrate Disneyland’s 70th at home via Disney+ The streaming service has released 16 new Park POVs You can ride Radiator Spring Racers, Rise of the Resistance, and countless other attractions in exceptional quality Disney Parks around the world are…
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” The researchers found thousands of instances of…
Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool
Eliza McNitt is no stranger to new media. Her 2017 project, Fistful of Stars, was a fascinating look at stellar birth in virtual reality, while her follow-up Spheres explored black holes and the death of stars. Now with her short film Ancestra,…
A doomed exoplanet is caught in a ‘death spiral’ around its star. Can it survive?
A massive planet trapped in a death spiral around its star could unlock some of the secrets surrounding star systems. However, the fate of this world is not yet set in stone, with two deaths and one “rebirth” possible in its…
Meta hires more Apple AI talent in poaching spree
After luring one of Apple’s chief AI researchers with a blockbuster pay package, Meta has now hired two more key members of his former team. One week ago, we learned that Meta poached Apple Foundation Models (AFM) head, Ruoming Pang, paying…
I can forgive losing the S Pen, but the Samsung Z Fold 7 has been ruined by a more serious design faux pas
Okay, so “ruined” might be a tad over the top, but my Z Fold 7 does highlight one problem with taking an ultra-light and thin approach to the foldable’s design. I’ve finally gone hands-on with the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold…