Author: Vidya Saras
Meta just announced its own media-focused AI model, called Movie Gen, that can be used to generate realistic video and audioclips.The company shared multiple 10-second clips generated with Movie Gen, including a Moo Deng-esque baby hippo swimming around, to demonstrate its capabilities. While the tool is not yet available for use, this Movie Gen announcement comes shortly after its Meta Connect event, which showcased new and refreshed hardware and the latest version of its large language model, Llama 3.2.Going beyond the generation of straightforward text-to-video clips, the Movie Gen model can make targeted edits to an existing clip, like adding…
Warner Bros. Pictures This article contains spoilers for “Joker: Folie à Deux.” If you’ve been paying attention recently, you may have noticed that pop culture is experiencing a very weird moment when it comes to sex. 25-odd-years after the proliferation of the internet, we’re now several generations into people having easy, rapid, and fairly anonymous access to sexually explicit material, to the point where an average experience using X (the app formerly known as Twitter) involves seeing pictures and/or videos of nudity and explicit sex acts, whether a user is seeking…
Private firms paused hiring or firing staff in September on falling demand for goods and services, reflecting the impact of a softening economy plagued by depressed money circulation. The Stanbic Kenya Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), based on feedback from about 400 panellists, suggests companies kept staff numbers unstable in anticipation of a pick-up in sales as living costs pressures show signs of easing. This came on the back of layoffs in August due to economic uncertainty that followed months of deadly youth-led anti-government demos against higher taxation and poor governance. “Adjusted for seasonal influences, the Employment Index posted on the…
A person carries bags of fresh water after filling up from a tanker at a distribution site in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Wednesday in Asheville, N.C. Jeff Roberson/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Roberson/AP An estimated tens of thousands of people in and around Asheville, N.C., are still without running water, six days after the tropical storm Helene. The faucets ran dry in Alana Ramo’s home last Friday after the storm swept through. She resorted to creek water and rainwater. “We [were] going around the house labeling buckets as ‘flush only’ or ‘tap water not filtered’ and then…
Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They’re making us dumber.
Cool and inspiring code demos we’ve featured in our newsletter over the past few weeks. We’ve been spotlighting some fun, cool, and wonderfully weird code experiments in our recent newsletters, so we decided to round them all up in one place. Featuring nice animations, GSAP magic, and WebGL/Three.js goodness, these demos are exactly the kind of playful and creative stuff we love to share. If you enjoy this collection and want more of the same, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to get fresh demos and frontend news delivered straight to your inbox twice a week: The Collective: Fuel…
Air pollution from satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere could become the world’s next big environmental problem — but the tricky form of contamination seems to evade the reach of both international space treaties and Earth-focused environmental laws. So, some researchers are suggesting a solution: Maybe chemicals produced during satellite reentries should be incorporated in the 1987 Montreal Protocol which bans certain substances that can harm our planet’s protective ozone layer. Satellites have been burning in Earth’s atmosphere since the beginning of the space age, but for decades, nobody really paid much attention to the issue. That changed when the era…
Fall Report Aaron Fitt – October 4, 2024 BROOKLINE, Mass. — Northeastern entered the 2024 season with higher expectations than ever, garnering a preseason Top 25 ranking for the first time in program history thanks to a loaded roster that included 2024 third-round pick Mike Sirota and seventh-rounder Dennis Colleran. The Huskies ultimately fell a bit short of their potential, but still put together a strong season, going 38-17 overall and 18-9 in the CAA (third place). They finished in the mid-30s in the RPI but still missed out on their what would have been their fourth regional trip in…
Melania Trump seems to have joined a long line of Republican former first ladies who have come out in support of abortion rights, putting them at odds with their husbands’ public views. In a short video clip promoting her forthcoming book, Mrs Trump expressed her support for women’s “individual freedom”, describing it as an “essential right that all women possess from birth”.It comes a day after an excerpt of her soon-to-be-released memoir, in which she reportedly takes an even clearer pro-choice stance, was published in a newspaper report.Mrs Trump’s apparent stance on the issue appears to contrast with the position…
On Friday, Jefferies maintained a Buy rating on Constellation Brands (NYSE:) but lowered the price target slightly to $309 from $310. The adjustment follows observations of challenges faced by the company in the second quarter, particularly in the beer segment where category weakness and a difficult economic environment have impacted trends. The company has responded to these challenges by increasing marketing and distribution efforts, anticipating an improvement in performance. Despite the current volatility in the macroeconomic landscape and uncertainty about the effectiveness of these investments, Jefferies remains positive on the long-term prospects for Constellation Brands. The firm’s optimism is rooted…