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Stability AI’s new model is slightly better at generating hands
Stability AI, the startup funding a range of generative AI experiments, has released a new version of Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI system that was among the first to rival OpenAI’s DAL
Needles to say, Ghostline drags tattoo stencil making ‘inkto’ the current millennium
Some of us are fans of dip-n-rip tattoos with very little planning. Who cares? It’s not like tattoos are permanent, right? Others prefer a slightly more measured approach. If you’ve ever g
Scenario lands $6M for its AI platform that generates game art assets
Depending on who you ask, generative AI is either massively overhyped or undervalued. Defined as algorithm-driven tech that creates text, art and other forms of media given a prompt, it’s captur
A video game industry veteran on making the art behind popular NFTs
Welcome back to Chain Reaction, where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking things down block by block for the crypto curious. For our Tuesday episode this week,
Anthony Hopkins sees NFTs as ‘art in a new format’
Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins partnered with NFT digital collectible company Orange Comet to launch his own series, The Eternal Collection.
Copyright law is going to get real interesting, y’all
As millions of people are playing with AI-powered image-generation tools like DALL-E and Midjourney, new works of art are generated by the billions. Many of them are curiosities, some of them are legi
Move over Picasso, watching this robot paint a car is mesmerizing
I come across “neat tricks” performed by industrial robots all the time, and many of them are about as interesting as watching paint dry. ABB Robotics’ newest trick is literally that
Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy?
There’s an old saw from Mark Twain about how truth is stranger than fiction, and I think it’s fair to say we’ve lived through a very strange reality this past year. With all the chao
Etsy adds an AR shopping feature on iOS designed for use with wall art
Retailers like Target, Home Depot, Wayfair, IKEA, and others have embraced augmented reality to help shoppers make decisions about products they’re interested in by visualizing the items in thei
Fertility startup Mojo wants to take the trial and error out of IVF
Fertility tech startup Mojo is coming out of stealth to announce a €1.7 million (~$1.8M) seed round of funding led by Nordic seed fund Inventure. Also participating are Doberman and Privilege Ventur
This drone swarm spray painted a jumbo-size graffiti mural
It's Friday, so why not watch some good old-fashioned drone-powered graffiti? A design firm in Italy has put together a lovely little show that collected sketches from the art community and put them a
At last, a camera app that automatically removes all people from your photos
As a misanthrope living in a vibrant city, I'm never short of things to complain about. And in particular the problem of people crowding into my photos, whatever I happen to shoot, is a persistent one
The Very Slow Movie Player shows a film over an entire year
It seems someone took Every Frame a Painting literally: The Very Slow Movie Player is a device that turns cinema into wallpaper, advancing the image by a single second every hour. The result is an int
Google is building digital art galleries you can step into
Google wants to help you take a closer look at the art world. The company’s Arts & Culture app has long been one of the company’s cooler niche apps and one that I often feel guilty abo
Eerie AI-generated portrait fetches $432,500 at auction
The question of whether a machine can create art, or anything at all, is at the heart of many a philosophical debate and has been for decades. But whether it's worth something on the market? That poin
Hide 3D paintings anywhere with AR app Artopia
Public places may soon be filled with secret pieces of art unlocked by looking through the lens of AR, if Artopia's cheerily creative app catches on. It essentially lets you geocache your 3D scribbles
Crunch Report | CNN shuts down Casey Neistat’s Beme
Robinhood is going to let you buy and sell crypto soon, CNN shuts down Casey Neistat's Beme and Sotheby's acquires Thread Genius. All this on Crunch Report.
Sotheby’s acquires Thread Genius to build its image recognition and recommendation tech
Every company today is a tech company, a maxim that was proven out today when one of the world’s oldest and biggest art auction houses acquired an AI startup. Sotheby’s has bought Thread G
Why inclusion in the Google Arts & Culture selfie feature matters
When Google Arts & Culture's new selfie-matching feature went viral earlier this week, many people of color found that their results were limited or skewed toward subservient and exoticized figure
Microsoft’s new drawing bot is an AI artist
Microsoft today is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology that’s something of an artist – a “drawing bot.” The bot is capable of creating images from text description