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Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto (Getty Images)Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense. You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking your phone signal could interfere with an airplane’s navigation systems, potentially causing a disaster. However, the necessity of airplane mode is largely a myth, and there’s another reason airlines are asking you to turn your phone off. - Maxwell Zeff Read More Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto (Getty Images)Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a…

Have you seen that croissant made in the shape of a dinosaur that’s gone viral in recent days on sites like Reddit and X? It’s incredibly cute. But we regret to inform you this “Croissantosaurus” was made using generative AI. In fact, if you track down where this pastry was first posted, you’ll find an entire fake restaurant that never existed.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part Two“Babe, what’s wrong? You haven’t eaten your Croissantosaurus...” a viral tweet joked on X. The tweet has over 3.3 million views at the…

The era of bad robot music is upon us. Adobe is working on a new AI tool that will let anyone be a music producer—no instrument or editing experience required.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoThe company unveiled “Project Music GenAI Control”—a very long name—this week. The tool allows users to create and edit music by simply typing in text prompts into a generative AI model. These can include descriptions like “powerful rock,” “happy dance,” or “sad jazz,” Adobe explained.Project Music GenAI Control will…

Don’t worry—the rat dck can no longer hurt you. The open-access paper that contained bizarre, AI-generated imagery of rat genitalia and gibberish graphics has been retracted by its publisher, which said that the study authors violated the journal’s guidelines.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedPublished in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, the study’s text discussed the function of stem cells associated with rat testes. But the subject matter is not what captured attention. The study authors…

Have you seen a photo on social media recently that appears to show a man in 1980s-style clothes smoking a cigarette in McDonald’s? The image has gone viral, racking up over 21 million views at the time of this writing. But it’s completely fake. The image was made using generative AI.ChatGPT’s Creator Buddies Up to Congress | Future TechThe image, which features a man with long curly brown hair and a mustache, instantly grabbed attention when it was first posted to X on Tuesday. The man looks like he’s smoking a cigarette…

Google swears it’s not trying to kill journalism, but many of its latest projects seem geared toward that end. Google is paying five-figure sums to small publishers asking them to test out a generative AI platform geared toward newsrooms. News outlets are asked to publish three of these AI-assisted articles a day, in exchange for sending analytics and feedback to Google, according to a report from Adweek on Tuesday.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “The experimental tool is being…

Automattic, the parent company of sites like WordPress and Tumblr, is in talks to sell content from its platforms to AI companies like MidJourney and OpenAI for training purposes, according to a new report from 404 Media Tuesday. And while the details of the deal are still sketchy, Automattic is trying to reassure users they can opt-out at any time.ChatGPT’s Creator Buddies Up to Congress | Future Tech404 reports there’s conflict within Automattic as some of the content that was being scraped for the AI companies…

Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing (Getty Images)Apple’s long-anticipated (and much delayed) project to build an electric car is going to that junkyard heap in the sky, according to a new report from Bloomberg. And much of the team will transition to working on generative AI, though it’s unclear how many people might be laid off.The M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for HalloweenApple executives, Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, recently shared the news with several hundred staffers on the project that it would “begin winding down,”…

The “News” tab has been a staple of Google Search for over 20 years, so when it disappeared on Wednesday, you can imagine how confused some users were. It turns out, Google is testing a new version of Search, and it does not include a “News” filter. The unannounced test caught many by surprise.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “We’re testing different ways to show filters on Search and as a result, a small subset of users were temporarily unable to access some of them,” a Google…

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has a unique problem. It has a hard time producing pictures of white people, often turning Vikings, founding fathers, and Canadian hockey players into people of color. This sparked outrage from the anti-woke community, claiming racism against white people. Today, Google acknowledged Gemini’s error.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview“We’re working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately,” said Google Communications in a statement. “Gemini’s AI image…