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Selfie-obsessed tourists sink a gondola in Venice
Dec 11, 2023
Dunja Đuđić
Taking the perfect Instagram shot sometimes isn’t worth the risk, and a group of tourists from China recently learned this the hard way. Their gondola ride through the picturesque canals of Venice took a soggy turn when their boat capsized – all thanks to selfie-taking. They ignored their gondolier’s instructions to sit down and ended up in the cold, murky waters of the canal.
Meta AI image generator Imagine gets its own website
Dec 7, 2023
John Aldred
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has announced a new lineup of AI tools. Some appear to be rolling out immediately. Others are…
New transcription features are added to Davinci Resolve 18.6.4
Dec 6, 2023
Sagiv Gilburd
Blackmagic Design just released a new update for its popular editing program, Davinci Resolve. Version 18.6.4 adds support for promising new transcription tools, Blackmagic RAW…
Uber Eats is AI-Generating Images, and it’s terrible at it
Dec 6, 2023
Sagiv Gilburd
Does your favorite restaurant not have pictures on their Uber Eats page? You might want to recheck it, as Uber Eats started to fill missing…
Groundbreaking AI “reads your mind”: Turns thoughts into images with 75% accuracy
Dec 6, 2023
Dunja Đuđić
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 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
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
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…