The big box retailer announced Target Circle 360 on Monday, a $99 annual subscription that unlocks free delivery and free two-day shipping on online orders. Walmart and Amazon Prime both have similar “unlimited” rush delivery and shipping schemes. While Target and Walmart’s are priced the same, Prime’s membership is a bit more expensive at $139 a year.
Deadline reports that the company has been acquired as part of Sony Music’s global podcast division.
Head of global podcasts Steve Ackerman told Deadline that the deal will enable Sony to “further grow our roster of original and client shows.”
Actors Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell have been tapped to star in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: the Hedge Knight.
HBO ordered the (yet another) GoT spinoff to series last year, which follows “two unlikely heroes … a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall (Claffey), and his diminutive squire, Egg (Ansell).”
A “speculative art and design project” by creators Mathias Vef and Benedikt Groß, the 3D-printed NUCA is a real-life camera that connects to AI, reports 404 Media.
The artists say NUCA uploads the photo to have the subject and their pose analyzed, generating a prompt it uses to create the picture and an AI-generated nude model that it swaps the subject’s face onto.
On the project’s site, the creators posted this explanation of their vision:
Unlike other deepfakes, the NUCA device ties creator and subject physically together, and shows the result immediately. It so takes away the anonymity that is inherent to internet deepfakes and contrasts playfulness with this nightmarish trend. To make this speculative (though very plausible) scenario tangible, NUCA is framed in the manner of a typical tech startup, trying with a private beta campaign to find its users.
[404 Media]
During a global outage of nearly a dozen different Apple services on Wednesday evening, Google searches for “App Store” outnumbered every other Apple Service — both in the US and worldwide.
The screenshot of Google Trends below, taken at roughly 7 pm ET, indicates that searches for “App Store” are at least four times greater than that of the next (apparently) most missed Apple service, Apple TV. This was followed by Apple Music and Apple Podcasts.
Mishaal Rahman points out that a new settings panel is popping up for a few people with a beta release of Google Play Services, like @AssembleDebug on X, but they can’t yet opt-in (using the process shown below) to make it work.
Announced at I/O 2023, the upgraded network will use encrypted location data from other Android phones for tracking, but it has been delayed until Apple updates its tracking protection, which could be coming in iOS 17.5.
