Midjourney launches an AI video generator

Midjourney has released the first version of its video generation model to the public. For now, the tool can generate short videos based on images uploaded or created on the platform, but Midjourney plans on rolling out more capabilities in the future. After creating an image using Midjourney, the service will show a new “animate”…

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‘The best way to listen in Lossless is Spotify Connect’: Spotify’s hi-fi tier may have leaked again in the app’s code – it looks like 24-bit lossless is finally coming

Multiple references to Lossless were found in the desktop app’s latest code Better than CD quality at “up to 24-bit/44.1kHz” No official announcement has been made just yet Sometimes promises take a while to be delivered, such as Elon Musk’s promises of full self-driving (FSD) in Tesla cars. And in all honesty, I’d filed Spotify…

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Ark: Survival Ascended players fighting a dinosaur.

Steam’s new in-game overlay offers some useful upgrades – and I’m particularly happy about one that exposes a controversial AI trick

Steam is upgrading its in-game frame rate counter to be a full overlay This will provide a lot more details on what’s going on under the hood with any given game, and your CPU and GPU’s status too That includes whether frame generation is being used, exposing situations where it’s been stealthily enabled, hidden in…

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Shark PowerDetect cordless vacuum in its auto-empty base

Vacuum cleaner brands are starting to embrace a handy feature which I used to think it was pointless – but now I’ve changed my mind

You could be forgiven for thinking the vacuum cleaner market isn’t particularly innovative. That’s not the case though: in just over a year of testing and writing about vacuums I’ve seen vacuums with lasers, vacuums that are powered by AI, and vacuums that can tell you exactly what they’re sucking up as they do so….

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