Blockchain has a controversial reputation, linked as it is to cryptocurrency but Professor Peter McBurney of Kings College London thinks it’s an important an invention as the web itself.
Why Instagram Reels Is Struggling to Compete Against TikTok | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ
Instagram’s short-form video feature Reels is far behind its biggest rival, TikTok. Internal research reviewed by The Wall Street Journal shows Reels is struggling to get people to watch and create content for the platform.
This Invention Could Supercharge Solar Panels
We’re always chasing better performing and more efficient solar panels to help power our renewable energy future, but no matter how efficient a panel is there are location-based impacts to performance. Solutions like solar trackers can help to overcome some of these issues, but they’re usually not worth it in most cases. Instead of creating more efficient solar cells or tracking the sun, a research team at Stanford has boosted photovoltaic efficiency, even on cloudy days, by concentrating the light that reaches the solar cells without any moving parts. Is improving solar generation really that simple? Let’s see if we can come to a decision on this.
Fix Faces In Your AI Artwork for free! Let’s see GFPGAN to fix those MidJourney & Dalle-2 faces!
Using the power of AI, we can fix those MidJourney, Dalle-2, and Stable Diffusion faces. It turns out that there are some great AI tools out there used to restore faces, so we will leverage those to fix our MidJourney face issues. I will show you using an image I did in my live stream yesterday where I was working on my entry for a weekly AI Art challenge for the 7 Deadly Sins.
We’re just scratching the surface of the blockchain, says Pantera’s Morehead
Dan Morehead of Pantera Capital joins the ‘CNBC Special: Crypto Night in America’ to discuss the blockchain and the impact of the ethereum merger.
Crypto Crashed, Coinbase’s Stock Followed | What Went Wrong | WSJ
Coinbase went public with a highly anticipated listing in 2021, but as the crypto market crashed, the company’s share price dropped by more than 80%. Now it’s working to diversify its revenue.
How This A.I. Draws Anything You Describe [DALL-E 2]
Art takes a unique combination of skill, creativity the very human element of aesthetic taste. But what if the visual arts also fall to AI. In this episode we discuss DallE 2, a powerful text-to-image generator that’s set to shake things up.
DALL·E 2 Explained
DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
Is artificial intelligence out of control? | Start Here
Artificial intelligence is becoming “like electricity”— it’s being used in almost every sector. But what exactly is it? And why are many governments trying to work out how to regulate it?
Breakthrough Tech Heats Homes Cheaper Than Natural Gas!
We talk a lot about energy storage, but usually in the form of electricity storage. But a large percentage of the energy used around the world is for heating and cooling. And while storing energy in batteries, to then use to heat your home, has proved valuable, what if we just stored the heat directly? That’s what this Finnish company believes they’ve done with their groundbreaking sand battery! Breakthrough Tech Heats Homes Cheaper Than Natural Gas!