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Back in January, startup Rabbit revealed its first device at CES 2024. The R1 is an adorable, vibrant orange AI machine with a camera, scroll wheel, and ambitious demos. Now, the device is being sent out to early adopters (and tech reviewers), and weve got some proper hands-on experience to tide you over until weve wrapped up a full review. Its definitely cute, designed by Teenage Engineering, which has put its design talents to use on the Playdate as well as Nothings most recent phones as well as music gadgets. Like all those things, it combines a retro-futuristic aesthetic with solid build quality, shiny surfaces, glass and metal accents. Engadget Then again, the Humane AI Pin was a beautiful piece of tech too, but it was also rubbish. The Rabbit R1 is a different device. First, it costs $199 less than a third of the AI Pins $700. Humane also requires a monthly $24 subscription fee to use the thing you dont need a sub for the R1 at all. Immediately, thats much better. The category of AI assistant-centric devices is very new, however. Rabbits device is different to Humanes in both hardware and features, but we know the R1 isnt launching with all its features just yet. There are a few curiously simple tools missing, like alarms and calendar support. Make sure you check out our first impressions here. Review incoming! Mat Smith You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! The biggest stories you might have missed Mercedes-Benz quad-motor G-Class could be the ultimate EV off-roader TikTok Lite axes addictive as cigarettes reward-to-watch feature The best ereaders for 2024 JetBlues in-flight entertainment system just got a watch party feature Joe Biden signs the bill that could ban TikTok The company has called the law unconstitutional. That thing thats been happening since Saturday is still happening. But, well, TikTok still isnt banned. In a statement, the company said it would challenge the law in court, which could delay an eventual sale or ban. Continue reading. Threads has 150 million monthly users Mark Zuckerberg has speculated it could be Metas next billion-user app. Threads is still growing. During the company's first-quarter earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg shared the latest user numbers of Metas latest spin-off social network, saying the app continues to be on the trajectory that I hope to see. Notably but perhaps not surprisingly Threads seems to outperform X (formerly Twitter), with analytics firm Apptopia indicating Threads has more daily users than X in the United States. Continue reading. Windows 11 now comes with its own adware App promotions in the startup menu are enabled by default. Microsoft The latest update to Windows 11 comes out this week and includes ads for apps in the recommended section of the Start Menu. The Recommended section of the Start menu will show some Microsoft Store apps, says the release notes. Apps are apparently from a small set of curated developers. Thankfully, you can restore your previously ad-free Windows experience by going into Settings and selecting Personalization > Start and toggling off Show recommendations for tips, app promotions and more. Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-testing-the-rabbit-r1s-ai-assistant-skills-111505087.html?src=rss
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Most new features and experiments Adobe has announced recently involve AI, like object addition and removal for Premiere Pro and text-based image generation in Photoshop. Now, the company has unveiled VideoGigaGAN, an experimental AI feature it says can upscale video by eight times without the usual artifacts like flickering or distortion, The Verge reported. VideoGigaGAN beats other Video Super Resolution (VSR) methods because it avoids the usual artifacts and flickering introduced by GAN (General Adversarial Networks), according to Adobe. At the same time, it adds sharpness and detail where most other systems fail to do do both of those things at once. Adobe Of course, the system is making up detail that doesn't exist out of whole cloth, so this wouldn't be suitable for things like forensic video enhancement, la CSI-style crime shows. But the detail it does add looks impressively real, like skin textures, fine hairs, swan feather details and more. The model builds on a large-scale image upsampler called GigaGAN, according to to Adobe's researchers. Previous VSR models have had difficulty generating rich details in results, so Adobe married "temporal attention" (reducing artifacts that accumulate over time), feature propagation (adding detail where none exists), anti-aliasing and something called "HF shuttle" (shuttling high-frequency features) to create the final result. Adobe If added to products like Premiere Pro or After Effects, it could allow video producers to make low-resolution shots look a lot better, though using AI too enhance people is a controversial practice. There's no word yet on whether Adobe plans to do this (currently, the clips are short and only play at 12fps) but plenty of companies including NVIDIA, Microsoft, Blackmagic Design and others are working on AI upscaling technology as well. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/adobes-new-upscaling-tech-uses-ai-to-sharpen-video-103431709.html?src=rss
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Alvin Bragg, Manhattan's District Attorney, wants to meet with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan to discuss why the website allows the posting of videos on how to manufacture "ghost guns" and why its algorithm is pushing them to underage viewers who watch video game content. Ghost guns are firearms assembled using 3D-printed parts or components purchased as kits. That means they have no serial numbers, making them near impossible to trace, and don't need any kind of background check to acquire. In a letter sent to Mohan (PDF) requesting a meeting, Bragg referenced a study conducted by the Tech Transparency Project in 2023, wherein it created four test YouTube accounts and gave them the profiles of 14-year-old and 9-year-old boys. Apparently, after playing at least 100 gaming videos, YouTube's algorithm started recommending them instructional videos on how to make ghost guns. It doesn't matter if they'd only watched, say, Call of Duty gameplay videos and had never interacted with any content featuring real guns. YouTube still pushed real gun content to their accounts, as well as other violence-related videos, such as those of school shootings and serial killers, even if they were supposed to be minors. Bragg also called YouTube's attention to the fact that there's no way for guardians to switch off the website's recommendations in parental controls. A lot of young individuals being investigated for gun possession in New York City said they learned how to make ghost guns from YouTube, Bragg wrote. While the website does remove those videos when they're flagged by gun safety groups, the DA said YouTube should be more proactive in removing them, should make sure they get blocked from being uploaded in the future and should provide viewers a way to switch off recommendations. Especially since the website does have a policy that prohibits the uploading of videos intending to sell firearms or to instruct viewers on how to make them. YouTube told New York Daily News in a statement that it'll "carefully review" videos the Manhattan DA shares with the company and that it remains committed to "removing any content that violates [its] policies."This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/manhattans-da-wants-to-know-why-youtube-is-pushing-ghost-gun-tutorials-to-kids-070219455.html?src=rss
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