A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming and regulation.
The metaverse has been trending for a couple of years as humanity’s answer to the pandemic and remote work. Neal Stephenson, the author of the science fiction novel Snow […]
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Berners-Lee said people too often conflate Web3 with "Web 3.0," his own proposal for reshaping the internet.
We also talked about AI and VR — but we know why you’re here: the upstart design platform sold to its biggest competitor. CEO Dylan Field explains why.
The resignations of three Twitter security executives prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.
Corporations, speculators and individuals have spent nearly $2bn (£1.75bn) on virtual plots.
The leader also said he believed the global economic downturn would serve to "winnow the field of participants in the technology sector."
If you want to build some of the craziest things on the internet," says CEO Nicole Muniz, "you should come and work at Yuga."
A new crop of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023. Here's what it all means.
Cutting-edge semiconductor companies tweak specs to comply with export controls.
New site provides all the finest points of nonsense philosophy, verbalized forever.
Last weekend, a man in San Francisco went into the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer and attacked her…
Nvidia's eDiffi is a generative AI model for text-to-image and beats alternatives like DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion, according to the company.
It's not fast, but it's free—and it runs locally on pocket-sized hardware.
“When I was a small kid,” said Curio, a nonbinary artist and web developer from Pennsylvania, “I literally had the most expansive, vivid daydreams of a device that I could put on my head, and it would just pull the images out and put them on paper.” Curio,who is in their 20s and asked to remain ...
One man’s battle to reclaim his face shows regulators across the bloc are failing to reprimand the US face search engine.
Yuga Labs’ founders rail against marketplaces that are rejecting creator royalties, suggesting a DAO-governed allowlist system.
Sinking ETH value and potential panic-selling pushes the NFT “blue chip” down—now 82% off its peak price from April.
"Recent large-scale text-driven synthesis diffusion models have attracted much attention thanks to their remarkable capabilities of generating highly diverse images that follow given text prompts. Therefore, it is only natural to build upon these synthesis models to provide text-driven image editing capabilities. However, Editing is challenging for these generative models, since an innate property of an editing technique is to preserve some content from the original image, while in the text-based models, even a small modification of the text prompt often leads to a completely different outcome. State-of-the-art methods mitigate this by requiring the users to provide a spatial mask to localize the edit, hence, ignoring the original structure and content within the masked region. In this paper, we pursue an intuitive prompt-to-prompt editing framework, where the edits are controlled by text only"
Paper by Amir Hertz, Ron Mokady, Jay Tenenbaum , Kfir Aberman, Yael Pritch1 , and Daniel Cohen-Or
Philip Rosedale, Founder of Second Life, at Twitter @philiprosedale
