Meta Deactivates Feature That Let You Generate AI Images Of Any Public Instagram Account

The company said it heard feedback that the capability ‘missed the mark.’ Ascannio/Shutterstock Meta has deactivated a controversial Muse Image capability. When the company introduced the model, it also announced that on Instagram, anybody could tag a public account — including yours, if it is public — and automatically generate AI deepfakes based

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Metal Balls From Space Are Popping Up On Australia’s Beaches

Sadly, aliens weren’t involved. Queensland Fire Department The Schwartz is strong with a small Australian beach town that’s having its own “space balls” moment. Six metallic spheres, each roughly twice the size of a basketball, washed ashore over the weekend on Forrest Beach in Queensland. The appearance of the mysterious objects has led to

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Sony brings back the superzoom RX10 with a stacked sensor and a high price

Sony is bringing back the RX10 superzoom camera after a nearly nine-year gap between models. The newly announced RX10 V retains the same 24-600mm equivalent f/2.4-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 25x zoom lens of its last two predecessors, but it has lots of upgrades elsewhere. The new 20.1-megapixel 1-inch-type sensor is a stacked design, allowing up to

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Days After Announcing Mass Layoffs, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Tapped To Advise The Federal Reserve On Jobs

Pabradyphoto/Getty Images The US Federal Reserve has announced the industry leaders who will head up its various task forces guiding monetary policies. The country’s central bank has made some baffling appointments to its productivity and jobs team, which will “Assess the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, to inform the

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Hands-on with the Fi Ultra Starlink-enabled pet tracker

Fi Ultra is the first Starlink-enabled pet tracker you can buy. It expands on GPS and LTE trackers, adding automatic failover to T-Mobile’s T-Satellite-branded direct-to-cell service when venturing into cellular dead zones. That lets owners tap into SpaceX’s constellation of low Earth orbit Starlink satellites to track their pets anywhere in the US. But it

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Volkswagen Is Employing 100 Sheep At A Solar Farm In Poland

It’s more of a baa-ter arrangement. canon_photographer/Shutterstock Volkswagen has some woolly new unofficial employees flocking to one of its European facilities. There are now 100 sheep grazing at the solar farm that powers the car company’s manufacturing plant in PoznaÅ„, Poland. Electrek reports that in addition to replacing lawn mowers, the critters are

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