Microsoft took the wraps off its image editing suite at its Surface event, called Designer. It’s mostly powered by DALL-E 2, an OpenAI technology that looks to try to take on Adobe and Canva, but Microsoft could be too late to the party with this. There’s been an explosion in AI image generators in recent…
Mobile camera sensors seem to be getting bigger with every passing year, and Oppo’s upcoming Find X6 Pro smartphone looks set to continue the trend and then some. According to Twitter leakster Ice Universe, the Oppo Find X6 Pro – which is expected to debut alongside two lower-key variants in early 2023 – will arrive…
When a workforce faces curtailment, it’s human resource professionals who enable organizations to address issues that inevitably arise from layoffs and facility closures. Westend61/Getty Images Few messages at work inspire more dread than the “pls fix” message from a higher-up. It can keep employees constantly on edge in anticipation and often comes with little indication…
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Norwegian police responded to an incident at the Nyhamna gas plant Thursday. Marit Hommedal/AFP via Getty Images Norway’s police say they have resolved an incident at one of the country’s largest natural gas plants. Telephone threats were made to the Nyhamna plant, the local mayor told Reuters. Natural gas benchmarks jumped by over 2% as…
Good morning, this is Jason Ma in Los Angeles, where gas prices are falling — but still above $6 a gallon in most places. Fuel costs will be a key part of consumer price data for September coming from the Labor Department on Thursday and may signal where the Federal Reserve and the stock market…
Disney has raised the price of its California Anaheim theme parks. Jae C. Hong/Associated Press Walt Disney has raised the price of tickets to its California theme parks. The most expensive day ticket for the park has gone up $15, or around 9%. Disney, like the rest of the US, is battling surging inflation amid the…
Amazon says it has secured up to 92 launches with ULA, Arianespace, and Blue Origin. The Associated Press Amazon is switching the rockets used to carry the first of its two Project Kuiper satellites. Amazon said Wednesday that it would use ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, rather than ABL Space’s RS1. Amazon originally scheduled the launch…
Elon Musk at a SpaceX event in Texas in August. Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images Elon Musk would get very angry when staff at his first company, Zip2, weren’t working after 9 p.m. A former Zip2 worker, Jim Ambras, told a new BBC documentary that Musk’s face “would turn red.” Another ex-Zip2 worker said the world’s richest…
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has been snapping up discounted Russian oil. Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via Getty Images Sri Lanka has been buying large amounts of Russian crude since March 2022. The island nation is in an economic crisis and fell into default in May. Data from analysis firms showed Sri Lanka imported all of its crude from…