Amazon Prime Day is here, and it's kicking off with a bunch of great deals on Apple devices. Key among them is a new all-time low on the AirPods Pro 2. You can grab them now for only $149, which is $100 off their usual price and the cheapest we've seen. <br /> The Apple AirPods Pro 2 were our overall pick for best wireless earbuds for iPhone, as well as our pick for best overall Ai [...]
A new collaboration between University of California Merced and Adobe offers an advance on the state-of-the-art in human image completion – the much-studied task of ‘de-obscuring' occluded or hidden parts of images of people, for purposes such as virtual try-on, animation and photo-editing. The new approach, titled CompleteMe: Reference-based Human Image Completion, uses supplementary inp [...]
OpenAI has disclosed that a now-banned account originating in China was using ChatGPT to help design promotional materials and project plans for a social media listening tool. OpenAI says that this work was purportedly done for a government client. The tool was a "probe" that could crawl social media sites like X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and YouTube for specific political, et [...]
In the span of a week, the Chinese startup DeepSeek has completely disrupted the AI landscape with its free and "open source" R1 model. In this episode, Devindra, Engadget Senior Reporter Igor Bonifacic and Producer Ben Ellman dive into what makes R1 so special, and what DeepSeek is doing differently from OpenAI and other competitors. Also, we try to figure out what’s up with “Incent [...]
If you find Google's live translation tools useful, you'll soon be able to use them more naturally during video calls and meetings. The company announced today that it's bringing the feature to Google Meet. Starting this week, AI-powered, real-time Spanish translation will be available in the app. Google says more languages are on the way and that the technology is "very, very [...]
Spain, Portugal and parts of France have experienced a massive power outage. The interruption of service extends to the capital cities Madrid and Lisbon, both of which have been left without electricity and internet. Seville, Barcelona and Valencia have also been impacted.<br /> A grid operator in Portugal has attributed the outage to “extreme temperature variations” in a statement given [...]