Apple is going to have to change the charger for its iPhones in the EU starting fall 2024. The European Parliament overwhelming passed a single charging port rule that will require all phones to use USB-C for chargers. Maybe now we can bring some sanity to Apple’s less than stellar cables.
If you can’t wait that long, perhaps you can do what Restore Technique does – modify his iPhone to use USB-C. Definitely NOT for the faint of heart as it involves some serious micro-surgery skills. Not only does it charge, but it also works with iTunes. Amazing work.
This video sort of puts a solid nail in any complaints Apple might claim that changing the port isn’t possible or would present serious issues.
Why is the ice cream machine always broken at McDonalds? Isn’t there a way to find out if it’s broke before I go? Yes – rashiq came up with McBroken to tell you.
I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine https://t.co/2KsRwAdrMd
Le Petit Chef brings projection mapping to your plate! I first ran into projection mapped dinners when I was at Inamo in London. One of the best aspects of Inamo wasn’t so much the projection mapping on the plate that showed their different dishes – but the fact you could order more food, drink refills, and even hail a cab and see a livestream of the front door cam to know when it arrived – all from the interface and without having to call over a waiter. Just make your selection on the simple table interface and a runner would bring you whatever you wanted. THAT was a fabulous dining experience.
In the face of this, New York-based artist Kris Kashtanova claims to be the first known artist to receive a US copyright registration for Zayra of the Dawn, a graphic novel featuring latent diffusion AI-assisted artwork.
“I was open how it was made and put Midjourney on the cover page. It wasn’t altered in any other way. Just the way you saw it here,” Kashtanova wrote in an announcement posted to Instagram last week. “I tried to make a case that we do own copyright when we make something using AI. I registered it as visual arts work. My certificate is in the mail and I got the number and a confirmation today that it was approved.” Kashtanova also noted that they first got the idea to show that artists “do own copyright when we make something using AI” from a “friend lawyer.”
The industry starts taking sides
On September 21, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters told The Verge that the company would no longer accept AI-generative artwork into its catalogue, citing concerns over copyright legality and privacy. “There are real concerns with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and unaddressed rights issues with respect to the imagery, the image metadata and those individuals contained within the imagery”
Learn the finer points of non-commital conversational style, body language, eating, hot dish, offers, and the long goodbye. Applies pretty much equally to anywhere in the Midwest like where I grew up
Of course, there’s also Charlie Berens who lets you know nothing has changed over the decades
Retro computing enthusiast Matthias Werner has shared his design for a device that recreates the old school clicking operational noise of a hard disk drive (HDD).
The HDD Clicker v0.2 is said to be both nostalgic and useful. Nostalgic for the ambience, and useful for providing audible feedback in sync with data access and transfers on silent solid state devices.
Saudi Arabia is planning to construct a mirrored building that will be 656 feet wide, 1,640 feet tall, and 105 miles long. It’s called The Line. It will house 9 million people in a eco-friendly paradise. It’s part of a $500 billion Saudi building project called NEOM being plaanned in the country’s Tabuk Province. It’s become a controversial initiative from the start because around 20,000 people will be forced to relocate by its construction – along with the unknown environmental impact of such a structure.
Michael Green did some experiments with Dall-E2 – and it’s pretty mind blowing what it can produce. He tests it out by asking it to reproduce various kinds of photographs in different artists styles.
These are just two of the images that are completely generated by AI:
Tens of thousands of people arrive at the coastal city of Durban South Africa for the annual Durban July – Africa’s biggest horse-racing and fashion event. Much like the pomp surrounding the Kentucky Derby, Durban also turns into an impromptu fashion show.
