Month: October 2024

Im Bundesrat ist das Gesetz zur Verbesserung der Terrorismusbekämpfung nicht durchgekommen. Die Opposition will sehr viel mehr Überwachung. (Gesichtserkennung, Politik)

Bei Amazon gibt es aktuell die ausgezeichnete Software WISO Steuer 2024 mit 47 Prozent Rabatt fast zum Black-Friday-Preis zu kaufen. (Software, ZDF)

On Thursday, OpenAI released an early Windows version of its first ChatGPT app for Windows, following a Mac version that launched in May. Currently, it's only available to subscribers of Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu versions of ChatGPT, and users can download it for free in the Microsoft Store for Windows.

OpenAI is positioning the release as a beta test. "This is an early version, and we plan to bring the full experience to all users later this year," OpenAI writes on the Microsoft Store entry for the app. (Interestingly, ChatGPT shows up as being rated "T for Teen" by the ESRB in the Windows store, despite not being a video game.)

A screenshot of the new Windows ChatGPT app captured on October 18, 2024.

Credit: Benj Edwards

Upon opening the app, OpenAI requires users to log into a paying ChatGPT account, and from there, the app is basically identical to the web browser version of ChatGPT. You can currently use it to access several models: GPT-4o, GPT-4o with Canvas, 01-preview, 01-mini, GPT-4o mini, and GPT-4. Also, it can generate images using DALL-E 3 or analyze uploaded files and images.

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Dabei stehen der Tasmanische Tiger, das Wollhaarmammut und der Dodo im Fokus. Ob das erste Mammut noch vor 2028 über die Erde laufen wird, bleibt abzuwarten. (Innovation & Forschung, Wissenschaft)

Arbeits- und Innenministerium wollen mit einem Gesetz klären, in welchen Fällen Arbeitgeber mit KI die Daten ihrer Angestellten auswerten dürfen. (Arbeit, KI)

The TECNO Pocket Go is a handheld gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS processor, support for up to 16GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory and 1TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, and a 50 Wh battery. But it stands out from other recent handhelds like the Valve Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go […]

The post TECNO Pocket Go hits Kickstarter: Handheld gaming PC with a wearable display appeared first on Liliputing.

Smarte Beleuchtung in Haushalten wird immer beliebter. Eine begehrte Stehlampe von Govee ist gerade wie am Prime Day um ein Drittel reduziert. (Smart Home, Technik/Hardware)

Interaktion mit der Community - eigentlich eine gute Idee. Im Falle des Kopierschutzsystems Denuvo hat die Sache aber nicht geklappt. (Denuvo, DRM)

Today, federal safety investigators opened a new investigation aimed at Tesla's electric vehicles. This is now the 14th investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and one of several currently open. This time, it's the automaker's highly controversial "full self-driving" feature that's in the crosshairs—NHTSA says it now has four reports of Teslas using FSD and then crashing after the camera-only system encountered fog, sun glare, or airborne dust.

Of the four crashes that sparked this investigation, one caused the death of a pedestrian when a Model Y crashed into them in Rimrock, Arizona, in November 2023.

NHTSA has a standing general order that requires it to be told if a car crashes while operating under partial or full automation. Fully automated or autonomous means cars might be termed "actually self-driving," such as the Waymos and Zooxes that clutter up the streets of San Francisco. Festooned with dozens of exterior sensors, these four-wheel testbeds drive around—mostly empty of passengers—gathering data to train themselves with later, with no human supervision. (This is also known as SAE level 4 automation.)

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At this point, we're used to AI-powered image tools that instantly pull off previously high-effort edits, like filling in the missing bits of a scene or erasing unwanted parts of a photo without affecting the background. But a new Adobe Illustrator tool demonstrated at this week's Adobe MAX conference takes 2D image editing things in a literal different direction, letting artists instantly transform 2D vector images into 3D models that can be rotated around the axis of the screen itself.

"Project Turntable" is currently just a tightly controlled demo, part of a set of "Sneaks" that aren't ready to roll out to the public just yet. But even the short early demo shown on stage has some intriguing time-saving implications for working 2D artists.

You spin me right round

In a quick five-minute stage presentation at the MAX conference, Adobe researcher Zhiqin Chen starts with a 2D, vectorized Illustrator scene of a warrior fighting a dragon. The warrior is staring directly out of the screen, though, and turning him to face the dragon on his left would usually require "redraw[ing] the entire shape, which is going to take a lot of time," as Chen points out.

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