2026-06-14
Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video generation a persistent spatial memory that doesn't forget what's around the corner
Mirage, a video world model from Microsoft Research and several universities, stores scene information directly in latent space instead of pixel-based point clouds. That slashes compute time and graphics memory while keeping scenes spatially consistent through long camera moves. It still can't reliably track moving objects across segments.<br /> The article Microsoft Research's Mir [...]
2026-06-14
The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10
Mark Lanier, the Texas trial lawyer who won a landmark $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in a social media addiction case in March, says AI was central to his preparation and execution throughout the five-week trial. Lanier told Business Insider that the technology let him compress 30 hours of work into 10, describing […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-14
Crypto exchanges promised users access to the SpaceX IPO. The tokenized shares never arrived.
Crypto users who thought they had found a way into the hottest IPO in years through tokenized SpaceX stock discovered on Friday that the shares would not be arriving. Binance Wallet, Bybit, and Bitget Wallet all canceled their tokenized SpaceX offerings after xStocks, the tokenized equity provider behind all three products, failed to deliver the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next W [...]
2026-06-14
I installed this brilliant peephole camera in 10 minutes, and it's a great subscription-free alternative to a video doorbell for renters and apartment-dwellers
If you live in an apartment or rented house, this clever little camera gives you all the best features of a video doorbell without damaging your door. [...]