Brian Trascher of United Cajun Navy Confirms a Blackhawk Did 'Rotor Wash' a Western NC Resource Site

Just a few taps in Google Photos, and you can AI the crowds away. Skógafoss is a must-see, everyone said, and in a country with as much natural beauty as Iceland, that means it’s gonna be some majestic shit. The waterfall didn’t disappoint, but even on a chilly weekday in March, the place was mobbed. My photos — and c’mon, you have to take photos — were littered with tourists in puffy coats, all taking their own pictures of the falls. Not exactly the stuff you print and hang on the wall. A couple of months later, I watched a picture of the same waterfall appear onscreen at Google’s annual developer conference as the company demonstrated its new AI-powered Magic Editor. In this version, a puffy-coated tourist stood in front of the falls on a gray day. CEO Sundar Pichai talks through the edits happening... Continue reading…

Adobe is releasing a new web app next year alongside a Chrome extension (pictured) for inspecting content metadata. | Image: Adobe Adobe is expanding its Content Credentials “nutrition labels” to make it even easier for creatives to be credited for their work, identify what is and isn’t AI online, and protect their content in the process. It’s launching a free web app that will allow users to quickly apply creator information to images, videos, and audio and even opt them out of generative AI models — for the AI developers that support it, at least. The Content Authenticity web app can be used to widely apply attribution data to content that contains the creator’s name, website, social media pages, and more. It also provides an easier way for creatives to opt their work out of AI training en mass compared to laboriously submitting individual protections for their... Continue reading…

The GameSir Tarantula Pro controller features a motorized mechanism to change the labels on its action buttons. | Image: GameSir GameSir’s new Tarantula Pro controller is designed for multiple gaming platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PCs, and Steam devices. To make switching between those platforms a little easier, both the layout and the labels of the controller’s face buttons can be changed. The $69.99 Tarantula Pro addresses a common problem experienced by gamers with multiple consoles. The Nintendo Switch uses a clockwise button layout of X, A, B, and Y, while the Xbox, Steam Deck, and mobile controllers for Apple and Android devices use a Y, B, A, and X layout. Image: GameSir The Tarantula Pro’s action button labels change using a motorized mechanism. The GameSir Connect mobile app can swap the functional layout... Continue reading…

Russia said Tuesday that it still had an emergency hotline with the United States and the NATO military alliance to deflate crises as nuclear risks rise amid the gravest confrontation between Moscow and West since the depths of the Cold War.

The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to outline Tuesday what kind of actions Alphabet's Google could be ordered to take to restore competition in online search, potentially including a breakup of the Big Tech company.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will speed up steps toward becoming a military superpower with nuclear weapons and would not rule out using them if it came under enemy attack, state news agency KCNA said Tuesday.

Iran-backed Hezbollah, which has suffered major blows from Israel in Lebanon, on Tuesday left the door open to a negotiated cease-fire after its arch-foe raised the stakes with fresh incursions in the south of the country.

The Nobel Committe for Physics announces John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics.

President Joe Biden will visit Milwaukee, WI, today (Oct. 8) to highlight the administration’s infrastructure campaign, nearly three years since the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed…