Imagination

It was the idea of having open-air lessons on the top of a building that really grabbed Richard and Lewis Edwards-Middleton’s children. Their four-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son were reading Munni’s Rooftop School, from Save the Children’s Wonderbooks series, and the school in question just sounded like so much fun. But there was more to the book that made it memorable. “Building on that fun, interesting element was the actual story around it, and how different it is in different countries,” says Richard. Those…

Samsung is all set to unveil the Galaxy S23 series on February 1 at the Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco. While not explicitly confirmed by Samsung, the company is expected to introduce three new smartphones - Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra. We've already heard quite a few things about the S23 trio, but the latest leak by German blog WinFuture leaves little to the imagination about the regular and Plus models. Official press renders of the Galaxy S23 trio have leaked already, so we know what these…

Italo Calvino, novelist, essayist, critic, editor, publisher, lived a life that seemed made of words. Like his Baron in the Trees, the legendary aristocrat who escaped in childhood to the upper canopy of a forest, he often seemed reluctant to be grounded on terra firma, much preferring flights of imagination.In the title essay here, the piece that gives this collection its guiding philosophy, he explains something of that habit of mind. In his youth, he suggests, he had the belief that fictional worlds could illuminate…

The OnePlus 11 live images have just surfaced yet again, leaving very little to the imagination. The OnePlus 11 live images surfaced yesterday, three of them, and now six additional ones appeared.The OnePlus 11 live images have surfaced again, leaving little to the imaginationIf you take a look at the pictures in the gallery below this paragraph, you’ll be able to see the Glossy Green model of the phone. You get a really nice look at its rear camera island, the top and bottom sides of the phone, and more.The phone will…

OzGrav, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery at Swinburne, has received an additional $35 million in funding to continue their groundbreaking research at the forefront of human understanding.OzGrav Makes Waves With $35M To Understand the UniverseThe Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Swinburne has been awarded a further $35 million in funding to continue their ground-breaking discoveries at the cutting edge of human…

These allow him to share music and, gosh, dance around.Also: AirPods Pro 2 vs AirPods Pro: Were they worth the wait?And what does their dancing do? It adds a Connecticut chill to the warm Buenos Aires summer. You'd think the locals would be grateful. You'd also think Tim Cook is currently out and about choosing Elon Musk's personal Christmas gift.As the young people dance around and freeze cars, dogs, trucks, trash cans, skateboards, and your brain, the locals gaze down upon them and think: "I hope my agent sorted out…

The Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro have just surfaced in hands-on images. As most of you know, these two devices will launch tomorrow, on December 1, in China. The global launch will following in Q1 2023 most likely. MIUI 14 will also get announced alongside the two devices.Having said that, if you take a look at the gallery below the article, you’ll see both devices up close and personal. They appeared on Weibo, and these images basically confirm that CAD-based renders were spot on.The Xiaomi 13 flagships just surfaced in…

How can causality help to advance the state of machine “imagination”?There has been a huge amount of press over the past few months about the incredible advances in text to image modelling. These models can generate human-level artwork based upon a user inputted text prompt and is part of a new wave of state of the art image generation algorithms.Figure 1: Sample images generated by the Stable Diffusion model. Stable Diffusion model outputs licenced under CreativeML Open RAIL-M.It is difficult not to be impressed with the…

Artificial Intelligence is the wheel of the digital change that the society is going through Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly one aspect of the explosion in technological development that is altering the plane. The digital change that the Society is undergoing is driven by AI. Artificial Intelligence has come a long way from the domain of science fiction into the world of reality. A new debate has evolved that pits the two conflicting paradigms of artificial intelligence and Human Intelligence due to how…

Russell Crowe is denying a claim that his audition to star in My Best Friend’s Wedding went terribly. In fact, he is denying that the audition ever happened at all.The 1997 romantic comedy starred Julia Roberts as a woman who realises she is in love with her best friend when he gets engaged to somebody else. While the best friend in question was ultimately played by Dermot Mulroney, Crowe was one of the actors who auditioned for the role.In an excerpt of the book From Hollywood With Love, published in February, the film’s…