In a privacy-conscious move, Apple will utilize blurred imagery from its Maps Look Around feature, obscuring faces, license plates, and houses upon request, to train AI models for image recognition, creation, and enhancement tasks, starting in March 2025.
git-who, a command-line tool, unveils authorship insights in Git repositories by summarizing contributions, annotating file trees with author information, and displaying commit timelines, offering powerful filtering and configuration options beyond git blame's file-level view.
Introducing 'fd', a powerful and intuitive replacement for the 'find' command, offering parallelized directory traversal, smart case-sensitivity, colored output, and the ability to execute commands on search results, making file searching faster and more efficient.
Perplexity, an AI search startup, proposes an ambitious $30-50 billion bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, rebuild its algorithm transparently and integrate its search capabilities, seeking funding at an $18 billion valuation.
ReCamMaster, a groundbreaking AI technique, enables generating novel camera trajectories for in-the-wild videos through video conditioning, backed by the MultiCamVideo dataset and open-source code, pre-trained models, and training instructions for the Wan2.1 model.
In a groundbreaking operation spanning 19 countries, Europol dismantled a global ring distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, arresting 25 individuals, including the mastermind behind an online platform that monetized this horrific exploitation of technology.
Groundbreaking AI analysis of high-resolution satellite data unveils the complex, anisotropic patterns of Antarctic ice flows, prompting the need to refine climate models for more accurate predictions of the ice sheet's future evolution.
Google unveils AI-powered health search enhancements, APIs for medical data sharing, and an FDA-cleared cardiac arrest detection feature on the Pixel Watch 3, showcasing its commitment to improving healthcare through innovative technologies.
AWS commits $4M to support The HALO Trust's groundbreaking use of AI and machine learning for detecting landmines and war debris in Ukraine, enabling efficient data analysis and cloud computing for this critical humanitarian mission in active warzones.
The UK is funding innovative space tech projects that harness AI and satellite data to tackle global challenges like climate change and preserving cultural heritage sites, showcasing the nation's commitment to leveraging space solutions for a sustainable future.