United lead line technician Mansur Zia observes the exterior of the plane and uses the iPad to create service tickets and perform a digital maintenance release sign-off. | Image: Apple / United It’s great that iPads can help pilots replace heavy paper flight plans and logbooks, but digitizing airplane maintenance could arguably be even more…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge / Palette.fm does AI photo colorization using text prompts for refinement. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) A Swedish machine-learning researcher named Emil Wallner has released a free web tool called Palette.fm that automatically colorizes black-and-white photos using AI. After uploading a photo, users can choose a color filter or refine the colors using…
The New York Post, one of the biggest New York City daily newspapers, said it was hacked on Thursday after several offensive articles and tweets were published to the newspaper’s website and Twitter account. The articles and tweets, which were racist and sexually violent in nature, were pulled a short time later. TechCrunch is not…
Persona, a four year old identity startup, has done pretty well for itself with its original identity verification idea, an API that lets companies capture various documents like a driver’s license or passport to prove who you are online. It went so well, the company announced today that it has expanded into a full blown…
Elon Musk published a note addressed to Twitter advertisers on his account this morning, the day before his court-ordered deadline to close his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform. In the short address, Musk — who is currently in San Francisco and spending the week at Twitter HQ — explains to Twitter advertisers…
Corey Wilton Contributor Share on Twitter Corey Wilton is the co-founder and CEO of Mirai Labs, the gaming studio behind Pegaxy. The first wave of the play-to-earn (P2E) gaming boom seems to be coming to an end. There are still plenty of blockchain studios staging successful multimillion-dollar raises around the globe, but competition for funds…
The official trailer for the third season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan has arrived, showing the titular character is still running, gunning, and getting tangled up in international politics. At this point he’s got to be wondering if the problem might be him. The eight-episode season will see CIA case officer Jack Ryan (John Krasinski)…
Gillbert is a robot fish designed by University of Surrey student Eleanor Mackintosh to vacuum microplastics from waterways. The robot uses a set of gills to filter water while keeping microplastics inside its container. Gillbert’s design is open source and free to download, so anyone with access to a 3D printer can create a Gillbert…
It’s potentially bad news for Street Fighter 6 fans, as Capcom’s half-year report suggests it could launch much later than we initially thought. Street Fighter 6 has been a much-anticipated fighter since its announcement earlier this year. While the game still doesn’t have a release date beyond a vague 2023, the half-year report (on page…
Gaming hardware is just about raining down on us right now, but with tons of products coming out, it can be hard to figure out how to balance the budget and make upgrades to your gaming rig at the same time. With NVIDIA GeForce NOW, you can get a performance upgrade without having to shell…