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500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Sketches Show Him Grappling With Gravity
A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were established by Galileo Galilei. The team’s findings come from a revisit of the Codex Arundel, a compilation of documents written Read more…
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First Trailer For Tetris Movie Released
Apple has released the first trailer for its movie Tetris, which tells the extraordinary true story of the struggle between Western publishers, Nintendo, and the Soviet Union itself for the rights to Alexey Pajitnov’s classic puzzle game. Taron Egerton plays Henk Rogers, the gaming entrepreneur who was instrumental in discovering Read more…
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‘Nothing, Forever’ Is an Endless ‘Seinfeld’ Episode Generated By AI
Four pixelated cartoon characters talk to each other about coffee, Amazon deliveries, and veganism as they stand apart in a decorated NYC apartment. There is one woman and three men who seem to be the animated versions of Seinfeld’s main characters, Elaine, Jerry, George, and Kramer. But unlike Seinfeld, these Read more…
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Google Created an AI That Can Generate Music From Text Descriptions, But Won’t Release It
An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. Called MusicLM, Google’s certainly isn’t the first generative AI system for song. There’s been other attempts, including Riffusion, an AI Read more…
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Microsoft Makes Multibillion-Dollar Investment in OpenAI
Microsoft is making a multibilllion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab behind ChatGPT and DALL-E, as the software giant looks to more closely tie these text and image-generating programs to its offerings. The news comes less than a week after the company said it’s laying off 10,000 Read more…
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Chess.com Visits Spike with New Cat-Themed AI Bot Named ‘Mittens’
On New Year’s Day, Chess.com launched five chess-playing bots — each with a cat persona. But the Deseret News reports that something unexpected happened with “Mittens”… Interest generated by Mittens is outpacing the surge that came on the heels of the wildly popular, chess-centric Netflix miniseries from 2020, “The Queen’s Read more…