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Startup pioneers new use case for generative AI: Building business applications

Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now. Generative AI is among the biggest artificial intelligence (AI) trends in 2022, introducing users around the world to new capabilities such as automated text and image generation. London-based startup Qatalog is…
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GamingNews

IKEA's latest Sonos Symfonisk speaker is also a $260 floor lamp

IKEA announced its latest Sonos collaboration today, a Symfonisk speaker that doubles as a floor lamp. The lamp/speaker combo will launch in January in IKEA stores and online. The floor lamp’s $260 price makes it the most expensive speaker in the Symfonisk lineup. Current…
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Motorola adds a 90Hz display to its budget-friendly Moto G Play

Motorola is churning out another budget Android phone today with the Moto G Play (2023). The $170 handset runs an eight-core MediaTek Helio G37 chipset, the same entry-level processor from the latest Moto G Power. Unfortunately, although the new Moto G Play offers decent-enough specs on a budget, it also underscores Motorola’s habit of churning out endless rehashes of cheap phones. The Android…
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MobileNews

Google Maps and Waze teams to merge, apps will remain separate

The Waze team is being merged into the organization responsible for Google Maps, though no changes to the end-user experience were announced as part of this internal change.  According to the Wall Street Journal, “Google plans to combine the team working on the mapping…
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An AI-focused film festival is coming to New York in February

One of the companies behind text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion is hosting a film festival exclusively for shorts that were made with AI. Organizers of Runway ML’s AI Film Festival are accepting films with a runtime of between one and 10 minutes that either include AI-generated content or were pieced together with AI-powered editing techniques. According to Fast Company, Runway said…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gets the Dirt on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile of wind-blown sand and dust similar to but smaller than a dune. Now contained in special metal…
MobileNews

Stadia ‘dev node’ teardown shows off the hardware Google sent to developers [Video]

Google Stadia is set to shut down for good just a month from now, but a developer kit has now surfaced showing off what was used to get games ready for the now-defunct cloud gaming platform. Gamers Nexus on YouTube obtained a Stadia “Dev Node” which is what Google called the hardware developer kit used for creating games on Stadia. The machine was sent to game studios to prepare games for…
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