#SeoTips Wonder Dynamics made a strong opening play in AI-enhanced visual effects, providing tools animators and filmmakers actually find useful — and earning the startup a prompt acquisition by Autodesk. Their latest tool further automates the ani...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
Zin Boats’ bigger, faster electric leisure craft is built from the hull up with PNW pride #Ecommerce
#SeoTips After taking on water during the pandemic, Zin Boats is back with a bigger, better electric watercraft that it has built from the hull up — again. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com...
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Electric outboard startup Pure Watercraft is selling itself for parts #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A tough market seems to have put an end to Pure's ambitions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Devin Coldewey, Khareem Sudlow ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Beyond Math’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Traditional techniques are holding back design teams at vehicle and aerospace companies, but Beyond Math is putting AI on the...
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Bilingual dictation assistant Silvia understands ‘Spanglish’ and other language mixtures #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Natural language AI assistants tend to be excellent English speakers, and passable in other tongues — but if you are one of the millions who fluidly switch between two languages on the fly, they’re stumped. A new AI helper called Silvia, h...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
H3X scales up its electric aerospace ambitions with $20M in new funding #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Many industries that rely on legacy energy sources are aiming to electrify or at least streamline their operations, but for countless use cases the tech just isn’t there. H3X is changing the game with electric motors so compact and efficie...
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Max Space reinvents expandable habitats with a 17th-century twist, launching in 2026 #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Max Space's expandable habitats promise to be larger, stronger, and more versatile than anything like them ever launched, not to mention cheaper and lighter by far than a solid, machined structure. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...
Friday, July 12, 2024
Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually — but lowers it collectively #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared to help less naturally creative people write more original stories — but dampened the creativity of the group as a whole. It’...
Saturday, July 6, 2024
OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers #Ecommerce
#SeoTips There’s no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of OpenAI’s systems. The hack itself, while troubling, appears to have been superficial — but it’s reminder that AI companies have ...
Friday, May 31, 2024
Voice cloning of political figures is still easy as pie #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The 2024 election is likely to be the first in which faked audio and video of candidates is a serious factor. As campaigns warm up, voters should be aware: voice clones of major political figures, from the President on down, get very littl...
Sunday, May 5, 2024
The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point #Ecommerce
#SeoTips I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30 seconds of turning it on that it was shipped a couple months...
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations #Ecommerce
#SeoTips OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that seems miles ahead of competitors. But the carefully stage-managed debut left out a lot of details — details that have been f...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Drone couriers and virtual faces among Alchemist Accelerator’s demo day highlights #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Today is demo day at Alchemist Accelerator, which focuses on very early stage startups from technical founders. 15 companies are presenting in this batch, but here are four we thought worth a closer look. Alchemist also scored an additiona...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
8 predictions for AI in 2024 #Ecommerce
#SeoTips This last year was a banger for AI as the technology went from niche to mainstream about as fast as anything ever has. 2024, however, will be the year when the hype runs full-steam into reality as people reckon with the capabilities and li...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Fuzzy Door’s Viewscreen on-set AR puts CG characters and locations in the viewfinder #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Practically every TV and film production uses CG these days, but a show with a fully digital character takes it to another level. Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” is one of those, and his production company Fuzzy Door has built a suite of on-set au...
Saturday, December 2, 2023
I’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible #Ecommerce
#SeoTips For years, dedicated Star Trek fans have been using AI in an attempt to make a version of the acclaimed series Deep Space 9 that looks decent on modern TVs. It sounds a bit ridiculous, but I was surprised to find that it’s actually quite g...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
FTC warns ‘no CEO or company is above the law’ if Twitter shirks privacy order #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The FTC has telegraphed what appears to be a now-inevitable investigation into Twitter’s internal data handling practices, as the company continues to shed important staff and improvise new features. “No CEO or company is above the law,” t...
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Tech is at the heart of the biggest chess drama in years #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The chess world is currently consumed by a drama as lurid and compelling, in its way, as the “Don’t Worry Darling” fracas. Involving implications of cheating at the highest levels of play, the feud between the world champion and an upstart...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Nvidia debuts new high-end RTX 4090 GPU after previous generation gobbled up by crypto miners #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Nvidia has announced its new generation of graphics cards, the RTX 4-series, including the $1,599 flagship RTX 4090 and slightly more affordable 4080. The upgrade comes at an interesting time for PC users, who have been starved out of the ...
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Puna Bio’s extremophile microbe menagerie survives and revives depleted soil #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The farming industry spends tons of money on artificial means of reinvigorating soil, but an all-natural solution may already exist: beneficial microbes that have evolved to thrive in extreme environments. Puna Bio, which raised a $3.7 mil...