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Elon Musk, the famous businessman and investor behind the car company Tesla, recently announced a new goal for the company via a post on X (formerly known as Twitter). What the entrepreneur wrote promises ‘genuinely useful humanoid robots for internal Tesla use during the next year and hopefully for other companies i...

According to Nature, a British scientific journal specialising in peer-reviewed research into various academic disciplines, researchers at the University of Hull, UK, are using the CAS astronomical system to analyse the light reflected in a subject's eyes within an image. The technique in question is a method often us...

If you had the opportunity to converse with your favorite character, what would you say to them? If you could communicate with that figure who accompanied you in the dark moments of your adolescence, or that hero whose adventures you were so passionate about, how would you approach the conversation? Despite being compl...

Within the world of artificial intelligence, copying the works of others seems to be an everyday occurrence. Copyright violations for artworks used as "training" material for AI models are only the beginning; some softwares generate content that is almost completely identical to the source. Figma, more specifically, i...

As mentioned in thearticle on greenwashing published during the summer of last year, the health of our planet is being put at risk on a daily basis. The "climate-friendly" policies of big companies often turn out to be clear attempts aimed at gaining consumer trust, which is irretrievably broken once the activity is ex...

The implementation of artificial intelligence within the television media industry is not exactly new; during last summer, the United States was the stage for the complex conflict between SAG-AFTRA, WGA and AMPTP - the results of the whole affair came, after months and months of negotiations, during the first week of N...

The renowned artificial intelligence company OpenAI recently fell victim to a hacker attack that breached its security protocols. However seemingly superficial, the risk presented by this incident is a stark reminder of the relentless determination of cybercriminals, especially in the face of the priceless treasures th...

Why have a human owner when, in the age of technology, you can rely on an AI manager? The U.S. company Inspira has, in fact, recently released its own "autonomous AI manager," designed to help the agency's employees, who work remotely with flexible schedules, set schedules and plan their tasks in advance. Like a real ...

The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news outlet responsible for publishing "Reveal" and "Mother Jones," recently accused the creator of OpenAI, and its trusted business partner Microsoft, of Copyright infringement. More specifically, the association accused OpenAI of using its content without permissio...

Users of Instagram and Facebook will surely have come across the devious "pay or consent" model recently introduced within the two famous platforms, which requires payment of a monthly fee in exchange for an ad-free version of the social media in question that does not use users' personal data for advertising purposes....

StableDiffusion, Stability AI's renowned artificial intelligence, took the world of technology by storm upon its release in 2022. OnJune 12, 2024, two years later, Stable Diffusion 3, the latest version of the software, has been released. Unlike its competitors, the company decided early on to make the product's code ...

The last week of June saw theintroduction of a new bill, the first of its kind, entitled TAKE IT DOWN Act (Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks). The goal is, essentially, to "punish" social platforms for posting non-consensual images generated through dee...

As mentioned last Friday, two startups specializing in generative artificial intelligence have recently come under the spotlight of the U.S. music-media landscape. They are the protagonists of a lawsuit brought by the RIAA and strongly supported by Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records. This update to w...

Recently there has been some emphasis on the emergence and sudden development of a branch of technology called "emotional AI." As explained in the recent article posted in the blog section of the site, emotional AI is a technology that uses affective computing techniques to perceive, learn about, and interact with hum...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is receiving a huge level of support following the lawsuit filed against two generative music startups. Until now, the RIAA has always been regarded as the bogeyman of digital media-cheering for it seems almost impossible. The current situation features two generati...

Watch out for the various "washings" enacted daily by big corporations - there is never an end to hypocrisy. In addition to the famous"greenwashing," a soon-to-be legally actionable activity, and "rainbow washing," yet another attempt to gain support from the LGBT community without actually supporting it in any way, it...