Microsoft Research Asia has unveiled a new experimental AI tool called VASA-1 that can take a still image of a person — or the drawing of one — and an existing audio file to create a lifelike talking face out
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Nothing’s Ear and Ear (a) earbuds with active noise cancellation are now available for pre-order
Carl Pei’s Nothing has revealed two new wireless earbuds at an event in Tokyo. It calls the Ear, the more expensive model of the two with prices starting at $149 and £129, a refinement of its older model the Ear
This hopping robot with flailing legs could explore asteroids in the future
Over the past two-and-a-half years, a group of students from ETH Zurich have been developing a robot with three spindly legs that was designed to be able to hop like an insect in microgravity. That’s right — the curious little
ESA’s Gaia mission discovers the biggest stellar black hole in our galaxy yet
In addition to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way also serves as home to smaller stellar black holes that form when a massive star collapses. Scientists believe there are 100 million stellar black
The latest version of xAI’s Grok can process images
xAI, the OpenAI competitor founded by Elon Musk, has introduced the first version of Grok that can process visual information. Grok-1.5V is the company’s first-generation multimodal AI model, which cannot only process text, but also “documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and
X makes passkey logins available to iOS users worldwide
X has expanded its support for passkey logins and has made the option available to users around the world, as long as they’re accessing the app on an iPhone. The social media company formerly known as Twitter originally launched passkey
An old SEO scam has a new AI-generated face
Over the years, Engadget has been the target of a common SEO scam, wherein someone claims ownership of an image and demands a link bank to a particular website. A lot of other websites would tell you the same thing,
George Carlin’s estate settles lawsuit against podcasters’ AI comedy special
There will be no follow-up to that AI-generated George Carlin comedy special released by the podcast Dudesy. In January, Carlin’s estate filed a lawsuit against the podcast and its creators Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen, accusing them of violating the
The US and UK are teaming up to test the safety of AI models
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and other companies developing generative AI are continuing to improve their technologies and releasing better and better large language models. In order to create a common approach for independent evaluation on the safety of those models as
X is funding a lawsuit against Jack Dorsey’s Block to support the ‘right to freedom of speech’
X is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her former employer Block, which was founded by Jack Dorsey, the same person who founded the website formerly known as Twitter. In her lawsuit, Happe said Block had wrongfully fired