There’s a new text-to-image AI in town. With ERNIE-ViLG, a new AI developed by the Chinese tech company Baidu, you can generate images that capture the cultural specificity of China. It also makes better anime art than DALL-E 2 or other Western image-making AIs. But there are many things—like Tiananmen Square, the country’s second-largest city…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The HBO Max and Discovery Plus logos | Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images In the coming months, there’s a very good chance that Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO Max and Discovery Plus platforms are both going to go through massive reinventions meant to bring the streamers more in…
Discord Forum Channels will be available across PC and mobile. | Image: Discord Discord is launching its new Forum Channels feature today in a bid to help server owners organize conversations. Forum Channels act like threaded topics of conversation that direct Discord users to talk about a particular subject. They’ll be useful for busy servers…
Mia Goth as Pearl in Pearl. | Image: A24 When X came out earlier this year, it was a capable, well-crafted homage to ’70s slasher flicks from director Ti West, but there wasn’t much to it beyond that. It turns out the project is much bigger than that one-off story. As was teased at the…
Samar Haddad / The Verge Apps are what make the iPhone useful. Without them, you wouldn’t really be able to do much with your smartphone, which is why it’s important to keep them up to date. By making sure to update them, you’ll ensure you’ll benefit from the latest security and feature updates. Luckily, iPhones…
Newegg is handing out free monitors when you purchase an RTX 3060 or 3070. | Image: Gigabyte In a strange turn of fate, it seems that Newegg somehow has too many 30-series graphics cards. Right now, you can get a free 24-inch 1080p gaming monitor when you buy an RTX 3060 for $399.99. Another solid…
You can now screate scrapbook-inspired collages with your favorite snaps on Google Photos. | Image: Google Google Photos is redesigning its Memories feature to better display your cherished snaps, featuring new interactions, memory types, and memory sharing. Some creative updates are also coming in the form of a new collage editor and Styles feature to…
Enlarge / Crucial’s venerable MX500 is one of the SSDs that Backblaze uses in its data centers. (credit: Crucial) Backup and cloud storage company Backblaze has published data comparing the long-term reliability of solid-state storage drives and traditional spinning hard drives in its data center. Based on data collected since the company began using SSDs…
The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Below you’ll find the four newest themes that we’ve added to our library, giving you beautiful options for small businesses/organizations, artists, and even a fun retro throwback. To install any of the below themes, click the the name of…
A group of sperm whales, seen from the side, begin their deep-water foraging dives as the sun sets off the Galápagos Islands. Maurício Cantor Sperm whales have a culture that spans the Pacific Ocean. In a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, a team of linguists…