Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video

A sample video generated by Meta’s new AI text-to-video model, Make-A-Video. The text prompt used to create the video was “a teddy bear painting a portrait.” | Image: Meta AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to-video generators. A team of…

Solar + batteries at home can provide backup power during disasters

Enlarge Lights went out as Hurricane Fiona devastated areas from the Caribbean to Canada, and Hurricane Ian has done the same. Hurricanes, along with other natural disasters like wildfires and winter storms, can leave people without access to electricity. However, new research out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests that added solar capacity, paired…