Jess Weatherbed

News Reporter

Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers

Jess WeatherbedMar 26, 2024

Humanoid robot providers are eyeing up manufacturing jobs.

According to this Financial Times report, AI and robotics providers have some lofty expectations regarding how popular their technology will be in manufacturing environments.

One company claims that 14 percent of manufacturing and automotive jobs will be automated in the next four years, and Goldman Sachs projects that the humanoid robot market could reach $38 billion by 2035 — at least if robots like Tesla’s Optimus can become as capable as their makers are claiming they will be.

A graph showing the forecast global humanoid robot market size in billions.

This graph from Goldman Sachs includes anticipated demand for humanoid robot specifications that simply don’t exist yet.

Image: Goldman Sachs Research

Disney Plus has a new Hulu-ified logo

Jess WeatherbedMar 26, 2024

Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite

Jess WeatherbedMar 26, 2024

Nvidia’s AI chip dominance is being targeted by Google, Intel, and Arm

Jess WeatherbedMar 25, 2024

Northern lights may be visible across the US and UK tonight.

Weather services are reporting that people in northern Britain and as far south as the midwest in the US may see the aurora borealis on Monday night, as geomagnetic storms on the sun’s surface send particle streams toward Earth.

The best viewing time is between 10PM and 2AM (locally) according to the NOAA, in dark, north-facing locations away from city lights.

Forcast map of potential Northern Lights viewings provided by the Space Weather Prediction Center

Here’s a map showing the locations where the Northern Lights are most likley to be visible tonight.

Image: The Space Weather Prediction Center

Jess WeatherbedMar 22, 2024

Meet Jonathan Kanter, the man heading the antitrust charge against Apple.

This New York Times article provides an overview of Kanter’s career in criticizing competition, from representing Microsoft’s offensive against Google during the Obama administration to leading the DOJ’s Antitrust Division.

“In some ways, he’s still looking for that more prominent trophy to go on the mantelpiece,” said former FTC chair William Kovacic. “You win one of these monopolization cases, you can take the rest of the decade off.”

Jess WeatherbedMar 22, 2024

“Photography itself is not really real.”

That’s according to portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, who offered her hot take in the “what is a photo” debate on Wednesday while discussing how generative AI may impact the industry.

“That doesn’t worry me at all,” she told AFP, likening AI image generation to Photoshop. “With each technological progress, there are hesitations and concerns. You just have to take the plunge and learn how to use it.”

Photographer Annie Leibovitz: 'AI doesn't worry me at all'

[FRANCE 24]