Firefly

Vehicle-mounted awnings have become de rigueur for overlanding and other motor vehicle adventures, offering a fast, sure way of getting some shade, even in the middle of treeless tundra or desert. Such awnings can be difficult to mount and definitely aren't optimized for quick dismounting, leaving drivers lugging around extra weight up high during stretches when they don't even need an awning. Oregon startup Humbra presents a lighter, more versatile vehicle awning solution with its new Firefly, an awning that travels…

Adobe “Magic” might be a bit of a hyperbolic term when it comes to technology, but as science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s third law states: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” That’s what the Generative Fill feature in the current Photoshop beta release feels like. It’s speeding up how I edit photos in dramatic fashion, and making me better at Photoshop in the process. Photoshop is very boring With Generative Fill, you can just select what you don’t want to be there anymore,…

The last remnants of Virgin Orbit have been offloaded. Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy the defunct satellite-launch company’s remaining assets for $3.8 million. Firefly’s purchase included the leftovers from a May auction that cleaned out most of the company’s possessions, netting $36 million in Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy proceedings. Firefly’s purchase was reported in June 15th filings in a Delaware bankruptcy court (via SpaceNews). Firefly Aerospace’s purchased assets include inventory at two of Virgin Orbit’s former…

Adobe is ramping up its AI efforts across its suite of apps, with another gaining a new feature to take advantage of Firefly.Available as a beta in Illustrator within Creative Cloud from today (June 13), you can use Generative Recolor on your Mac to play around with different color palettes for your projects. Instead of changing the fill color of certain objects and logos manually, you can instead prompt the Firefly AI to fill in a project with a bunch of color palettes, and it gives you a variety of these to choose…

Adobe Inc. will reimburse its large business users of Firefly against copyright lawsuits, the company announced Thursday. The move comes as copyright lawsuits around AI-generated images are on the rise around other image generation tools like Stability AI and Midjourney, and it emphasizes Adobe’s confidence in its tool’s legal data sourcing. Adobe, however, did not clarify what the extent of its budget was for coverage, what the associated qualifying legal conditions would be, nor did it address what…

Adobe has recently updated Photoshop with new capabilities that claim to enhance and accelerate creative workflows. Features like New Adjustment Presets, Contextual Task Bar, Remove Tool and Enhanced Gradients also help users to make complex edits and create unique designs while saving time. Adobe’s AI innovationsAdobe claims to have over a decade-long history of AI innovation. The company has delivered several intelligent capabilities through Adobe Sensei into apps which are used by multiple users. Features like Neural…

Adobe has unveiled Generative Fill co-pilot in Photoshop which brings Adobe Firefly generative AI capabilities into design workflows. The company, which is known for its suite of creative software, claims that Generative Fill is the world’s first co-pilot in creative and design workflows.The tool enables users to add, extend or remove content from images in seconds by using simple text prompts. It is to be noted that this is a beta release and the company will soon integrate Firefly across (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and…

Adobe’s Photoshop has grown to become an incredibly capable and powerful image editing tool, but its ever-increasing complexity also makes it harder for new users to learn how to use it. That could change later this year, however, as Photoshop will soon introduce some new AI-powered tools that allow users to perform complex edits by simply asking the app to do it for them.In March, Adobe revealed its AI image generation tool, called Firefly, which stood out from similar tools with a promise that it wouldn’t infringe upon…

The Alpha rocket for the Space Force's Victus Nox mission stands on the launchpad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.Firefly AerospaceThe name says it all: Victus Nox, or, translated from Latin, "conquer the night."It's an experimental test run of national security capabilities in space, and a high-stakes mission for a pair of burgeoning space companies — a crucial chance to prove they can handle the high-speed demands of the U.S. Space Force.The mission for the military's Los Angeles-based Space Safari team calls…

You no longer need a TV studio, millions of dollars of equipment, and a team of editors, animators, colorists, and artists to produce professional looking video content. You do, however, need a bit of talent, but maybe not for long, as Adobe is introducing new video tools that let you enhance, manipulate, and even edit videos with just a few typed commands.Making the Facebook Papers PublicBack in March, Adobe finally threw its hat into the AI image generation ring with the reveal of Adobe Firefly, a tool that promised to…