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“It has never been about asking AI to replace creativity” – Skylum CEO reaffirms Luminar’s commitment to photographers

August 19, 2026
Skylum is making it very clear that the photographer comes first. That’s right, the company that helped pioneer AI-powered photo editing software, when it launched Luminar Neo (now Luminar) back in 2022, is reaffirming its stance on the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence. In a press release for the program’s latest update, Skylum’s CEO, Ivan Kutanin, addressed…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla FSD v14 swerved and try to drive me into a ditch for no reason

August 19, 2026
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving v14.3.6 tried to take a highway exit that my car had already passed, at 110 km/h (68 mph), and it would have taken us straight into the ditch. I was ready to take control, and I did, but it was scary. My girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat, screamed in fear. What the dashcam shows This was Sunday night on Autoroute 55 in Quebec’s Mauricie region, running FSD…
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DefenseNews

How US military funding propelled China’s robot dogs

August 19, 2026
China’s Unitree Robotics — among the world’s biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots — based designs for its most successful robot dogs on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to a former U.S. defense technology official and three top researchers involved in the project. Unitree’s $1,600 Go2 model, launched in 2023, helped the company rapidly dominate the global…
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GamingNews

Mortal Shell 2 Review

August 18, 2026
As a fan of Mortal Shell’s scaled-down approach to the soulslike back in 2020, I was very skeptical of Mortal Shell 2’s enthusiasm for making everything about it way larger, because bigger is not always better. If you felt the same, then allow me to assuage those fears…
GamingNews

Mafia Developer Says Comparisons to Grand Theft Auto Are an 'Internet Thing'

August 18, 2026
The Mafia video game franchise is often compared to the Grand Theft Auto games. The rivalry began when the first Mafia game came out in 2002, just a year after GTA 3. Fast forward nearly a quarter of a century and, in the run up to the release of last year’s Mafia: The Old Country, GTA reared its head once again. For a time, it looked like The Old Country might end up coming out within the…
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