The standards body is updating its existing Adaptive-Sync test specification to account for a new wave of monitors that can boost their maximum refresh rates at lower resolutions (like LG’s recently-announced OLED that can do 240Hz at 4K or 480Hz at 1080p). VESA will test a monitor’s flicker, jitter, response times, and more, and manufacturers who pass get the appropriate VESA logo to put on the box.
Hollywood’s entertainment studios seem dead set on incorporating artificial intelligence tools into their production workflows in ways that stand to put people out of jobs.
But during a recent studio executive roundtable discussion, Warner Bros. Animation president Sam Register stressed the importance of protecting human artists “because I think we should give jobs to people who really do that and so they can get their entry-level experience.”
According to the FT, influencers are worried about AI-generated characters taking their jobs, as a new cadre of synthetic content creators are unleashed on to consumers.
A recent post by one of these AI influencers shows the cracks in the argument that brands can just swap out a human for a digital avatar. Much of the audience is just thirsty men. And then there are heart emojis from dozens of other AI characters — robots talking to each other.
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Microsoft’s new chief marketing officer Takeshi Numoto is known for aggressively bundling (and raising prices) of the company’s products, according to The Information’s recent profile of the executive. As Numoto takes the helm, he will be in charge of getting customers to pay for its AI products, potentially by bundling them with other offerings.
But the company is already facing criticism for making it so expensive to run its software thanks to its bundling plans. Adding AI into the mix could complicate things further.
“Microsoft has shown this pattern of bundling products aggressively, which could limit potential competition,” said David Balto, an antitrust lawyer in Washington and former assistant director at the FTC who has often favored government moves to weaken monopolies and has previously consulted for tech firms including Google.
but maybe they were all just confusing their disk drive with this bad boy — the Thermaltake Xray A2021. Designed to slot into a 5.25” drive bay, this glorious retro-tech equips desktop PCs with a drinks cup holder and a car-style cigarette lighter.
Now I want to see what other weird accessories I can pick up for my older PC cases. How about a cassette player or this vacuum tube audio filter thing from Cooler Master?
Starting from January 24th, customers paying at least $100 per month for T-Mobile’s yearly phone upgrade plan can enjoy Hulu (with ads) at no additional cost, alongside Apple TV Plus, Netflix Basic, as well as MLB.TV. That works out to around $7.99 per month of extra streaming freebies.
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Microsoft has been adding more and more AI features to its Edge browser over the past year, and now the company is branding it the “AI browser.” The naming now appears on iOS and Android versions of Edge, and if you search for Edge in Apple’s App Store you’ll likely see an ad that highlights all the AI-powered features. It looks like 2024 is going to be another big AI push for Microsoft.
If you toggle link history to be on, Meta will be able to show you a list of links you’ve tapped and viewed in the in-app browser over the past 30 days.
Meta already tracks things you do in its in-app browsers — this feature seems more like a way to surface a list of links that you can refer back to later. (Meta also says that if you flip on link history, it may use that information for ad targeting.)
Gizmodo reported on the link history feature earlier today.
