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Groundbreaking AI “reads your mind”: Turns thoughts into images with 75% accuracy

Dec 6, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

In a groundbreaking study, researchers in Japan have reconstructed images from human brain activity using artificial intelligence. While this isn’t the first study of this kind, it is the first that managed to reconstruct images without the subject looking at them. In other words – only their thought was enough, and AI achieved an astonishing accuracy of over 75%!

Rode acquires US pro audio company Mackie

Dec 5, 2023 John Aldred

Microphone manufacturer Rode has announced a new acquisition. It’s the American pro audio company Mackie. Mackie’s acquisition adds a lot of new products to the…

Panasonic Lumix G9 II - 12-bit RAW over HDMI

Panasonic Lumix G9 II to get 12-Bit raw over HDMI for BRAW and ProRes RAW

Dec 5, 2023 John Aldred

Panasonic has announced an upcoming firmware for the Panasonic G9 II mirrorless camera (buy here). The new firmware adds a much-demanded feature to the camera….

Filmic’s parent company lays off entire Filmic staff

Dec 5, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Bending Spoons, the Milan-based creative app studio, has laid off all the staff of Filmic. The company acquired Filmic in July 2023, with layoffs announced in September 2023. Judging from the employee’s statuses on X and LinkedIn, they’ve all been abandoning the company over the past couple of weeks.

This photographer embraces AI and thinks we should all do the same

Dec 4, 2023 Alex Baker

Pratik Naik has become a bit of a household name in photography circles. He’s known mainly for his high-end retouching, but he’s also an accomplished…

This is the environmental impact of creating AI images

Dec 4, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

With artificial intelligence, generating images and text has become common and accessible to everyone. However, recent studies reveal that this seemingly harmless activity comes at…

Stability AI’s new AI generator creates images faster than you imagine them

Dec 1, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

On Tuesday, Stability AI introduced a new AI image-synthesis model, Stable Diffusion XL Turbo. The bombastic name reveals its main advantage: it generates images at an unprecedented speed. It produces images in a single step, compared to the 20-50 steps its predecessor required. In other words, it can generate images as fast as you can type… maybe even faster.