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An AI-focused film festival is coming to New York in February

December 8, 2022
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

December 8, 2022
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…
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Stadia ‘dev node’ teardown shows off the hardware Google sent to developers [Video]

December 8, 2022
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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Canva targets business users with generative AI-powered tools

December 8, 2022
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. Canva, the popular Australian-based graphic design platform, is boosting its efforts to target enterprise business users with today’s release of Canva Docs, part of its Visual Worksuite that was launched in…
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Xbox thinks its game soundscapes can lull you to sleep

December 8, 2022
Mindfulness app Calm has a couple new audioscapes to help people relax and drift off, and they’re both from first-party Xbox games. Starting today, folks with a Calm Premium membership can chill out to the ocean vibes of Sea of Thieves or the ambient alien noise of Zeta Halo from Halo Infinite. It’s the first time Calm has added game-themed soundscapes, so let’s hope…
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