Microsoft Germany announced that the company is set to launch GPT-4 as early as next week, “and it will potentially let you create AI-generated videos from simple text prompts,” reports Digital Trends. The news was revealed by Andreas Braun, Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Germany, at a recent event titled Read more…
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University announced that they’d finally mapped every single neuron and all the connections between them housed inside the brain of a fruit fly larva. The team’s research was published this week in the journal Science. “If we want to understand who Read more…
Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published in the journal Nature, reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. This finding opens the way to create devices that literally make energy from Read more…
Twitter’s decline is paving the way for other platforms to build next-generation replacements. And now the biggest player in the game is getting involved: Meta is in the early stages of building a dedicated app for people to post text-based updates. “We’re exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing Read more…
China’s government could use TikTok to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying the Chinese-owned video app “screams” of security concerns. Wray told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to U.S. security that the Chinese government Read more…
As media executives look to pop the stock of flagging publicly traded companies, tech advances are becoming the new gimmick to wow (even temporarily) the investing class. When Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel opened his company’s earnings call with prepared remarks Feb. 28, a casual listener hearing him tout the UFC Read more…
The White House said Tuesday it backs a bill in Congress to give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign technologies that could pose security threats. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the bipartisan bill sponsored by a dozen senators “would Read more…