You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress
Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets. It arrives with some aerobatic capabilities and an entry-level price, but the question of what you’d actually do with it remains open.
“Giant superatoms” could finally solve quantum computing’s biggest problem
In the pursuit of powerful and stable quantum computers, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed the theory for an entirely new quantum system – based on the novel concept of ‘giant superatoms’. This breakthrough enables quantum information to be protected, controlled, and distributed in new ways and could be a key step …
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Revealing the hidden logic behind AI’s judgments of people
In a world where artificial intelligence is quietly shaping who gets hired, who receives loans, and even how medical decisions are made, a new question is emerging: How does AI judge us? A new study by Prof. Yaniv Dover and Valeria Lerman from Hebrew University suggests the answer is both reassuring and deeply unsettling. The …
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Free open-source tool to instantly rig and animate your illustrations (also with mesh deform)
If you haven’t seen it yet, a model called see-through dropped last week. It takes a single static anime image and decomposes it into 23 separate layers ready for rigging and animation. It’s a huge deal for anyone who wants a rigged 2D character but doesn’t have hundreds of dollars lying around. The problem is …
‘The Audacity’ Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
AMC’s new black comedy about a manchild tech titan spinning out of control is a skewering Silicon Valley’s billionaire class deserves.
AI models can fake visual understanding of images that don’t exist
It wasn’t long ago that news headlines claimed that AI might soon assist radiologists in interpreting X-rays of broken bones and analyzing mammograms. We are still far from the destination, as a new study has brought to light the mirage effect, where AI creates detailed descriptions of images that do not exist.
Ai TikTok scams becoming more realistic.
I’m just attaching one video but 100’s of them have popped up in the last 30 days. Each of them have a different website and as crazy as it sounds 95% of the people viewing these videos have no clue. if you type in Mario lamp, Goku lamp or even “resin lamp” on TikTok or …
‘Crimson Desert’ Is a Cat Dad Simulator
Step into the shoes of the strongest, goodest boy in a game that is beautiful, baffling, and impossible to put down.
After ~400 Z-Image Turbo gens I finally figured out why everyone’s portraits look plastic
Been using Z-Image Turbo pretty heavily since it dropped and wanted to dump some notes here because I kept seeing the same complaints I had on day one and nobody was really answering them properly. The thing I kept running into: every portrait looked like a skincare ad. Glossy skin, symmetrical face, that weird “influencer …