The Lumière brothers’ 1896 short silent documentary The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, one of the earliest films ever screened, is linked to a famous legend. The story goes that when audiences first saw the moving image of a life-sized train rushing towards them, they panicked, screamed, and even fled to the
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Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new product line as integral to daily life as the software giant’s past innovations. “We’re really trying to land this idea that everybody is going to have their own personalized AI companion,” said Mustafa Suleyman
The line separating historical fact from fiction is blurring fast as creators are making images of the pre-modern past in mere seconds, by using text-to-image AI models. Generative AI chatbots have made it possible to turn historical paintings of Indian rulers and warriors into lifelike portraits. Other AI images illustrate atrocities against enslaved subjects, women,
Several Indian entrepreneurs on Friday (April 4, 2025) rallied in unison after Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal questioned the Indian startup ecosystem’s value and innovation proposition, as prominent names like Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha and Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu voiced their opinion on the issue that has stirred a debate in the startup circles. Palicha –
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (April 4, 2025) said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. The order was announced as White House officials believed
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Spring break continues at theme parks and fandom experiences around the country. This past week saw the opening of Star Wars Season of the Force at the Disneyland Resort. io9 was on hand to experience the food and fun there. Here we catch up with the rest of the galactic goods with a look at
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With more than 2 billion users, Instagram has emerged as the go-to alternative to traditional social media as well as photo and video sharing websites like Facebook, Imgur and others. However, some don’t like Instagram’s show-off culture, short form videos, and the toxicity on the platform. A bunch of users also say that Meta has
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Half an hour before my interview with famed anime creator Shinichirō Watanabe, a handler from Adult Swim emailed me to ask if we would have our videos on. The question seemed odd until I read the rest of the message: “If so, Watanabe wants to wear his sunglasses for the interview!” The idea that the
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In less than a fortnight after its roll out, the upgraded image generator in OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered privacy concerns among many by generating government identity cards with fake Aadhaar numbers and Permanent Account Numbers (PAN). A user on X shared that OpenAI’s popular chatbot can generate fake Aadhaar and PAN cards, flagging it as
Source: X (formerly Twitter) Indian astronaut-designate Shubhanshu Shukla will go aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as the first one, with his flight scheduled as early as May 2025. NASA announced this in an official public announcement regarding the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), in which Shukla is a member of a private astronaut mission led
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