Month: August 2024
FLUX Local & Cloud Tutorial With SwarmUI – FLUX: Open Source txt2img Model Surpassing Midjourney
https://youtu.be/bupRePUOA18?embedable=true FLUX represents a groundbreaking achievement in open source txt2img technology, genuinely outperforming and producing superior quality images with enhanced prompt adherence compared to #Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Leonardo Ai, Playground Ai, Stable Diffusion, SDXL, SD3, and Dall E3. FLUX, developed by Black Forest Labs, boasts a team primarily composed of the original StableDiffusion creators, resulting … Read more
Netflix’s Stranger Things play is headed to Broadway
Image: Netflix Netflix is bringing its Stranger Things play to Broadway’s Marquis Theatre next March. The play, called Stranger Things: The First Shadow, takes place years before the events in the streaming series unfold. It made its debut in London’s West End last year. The play takes place in Hawkins, Indiana in 1959 and follows … Read more
Paris 2024 Olympics Venue Hit With Cyberattack as Hackers Demand Crypto
A cyberattack has impacted about 40 French tourist spots, including the Grand Palais where some Paris 2024 Olympics events are taking place.
Most Popular Vintage Video Games and Why They Are Still Worth Playing Today
There’s something magical about vintage video games. They transport us back to simpler times when the thrill of a new game could keep us glued to the screen for hours. I remember saving up my money for what felt like an eternity to buy my first Sega. I was so jealous of my best friend … Read more
Rivian lost $1.46 billion in Q2 as it drives towards a VW-linked future
Rivian’s financial losses have crept up as it pushed out the last of its first-generation R1 trucks and SUVs in favor of newer, more cost efficient versions — a sign of just how much the company could use the $5 billion that could come its way as part of a recently announced deal with Volkswagen … Read more
Crypto Market Hits ‘Extreme Fear’, Surpassing FTX Collapse Lows
The popular metric of market sentiment for Bitcoin and other large cryptocurrencies has plunged.
Bitcoin Startup Lab Launches Largest Bitcoin Hackathon In History
AUSTIN, USA, August 6th, 2024/Chainwire/–Bitcoin Startup Lab has initiated the Bitcoin Olympics along with other Bitcoin industry leaders, the largest online Bitcoin hackathon to date. Running from August 1st to 27th, the event will culminate in an award ceremony at BTCON on September 4th, celebrating the achievements of participants and the collaborative efforts of Bitcoin … Read more
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Amazon Music’s new ‘Topics’ feature uses AI to recommend podcast episodes
Illustration: The Verge Amazon Music on Tuesday introduced Topics, a new AI-powered feature that should let you easily discover other related podcasts based on topics discussed in a particular episode. After analyzing podcast transcriptions and descriptions to identify key topics, AI, with the aid of human reviewers, generates a Topics tag button. Located beneath each … Read more
Google Assistant lives to automate another day
With new Pixel devices just over the horizon, Assistant’s days on Android may still be numbered. For the time being, however, it still has a place on the home. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Nearly every token Binance listed in 2024 is now bleeding red — Coin98
Part of the problem is the airdrop model for token distributions, which has grown in popularity in recent years.
A new Bill Gates-backed project wants to make carbon removal more legit
A small-scale model of a carbon removal facility during a groundbreaking ceremony at the Occidental Petroleum and 1PointFive Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Ector County, Texas, on April 28th, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images Companies are increasingly turning to newfangled ways to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as a way to hit … Read more
Semler Scientific Studied MicroStrategy’s Success Before Adopting Bitcoin Strategy
It was more than two years before Bitcoin’s birth when Dr. Herbert Semler, who served as a flight surgeon in the Korean War before leading cardiology at a Portland hospital, co-founded Semler Scientific in 2007.Seventeen years later, the medical device manufacturer has converted much of its cash holdings to bitcoin and aims to buy a … Read more
Bitcoin Skeptic Peter Schiff Accidentally Makes a Pro-Bitcoin Argument
While criticizing Bitcoin ETFs, Schiff perfectly captured Bitcoin’s investment thesis in a single tweet.
Amazon upgrades its AI image generator
Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. Simply called Titan Image Generator v2, the new model brings with it several new capabilities, AWS principal developer advocate Channy Yun explains in a blog post. Users can “guide” the images they … Read more
How mobile technology can drive mass Web3 adoption
According to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), 49% of individuals globally access the internet from smartphones.
CoinShares revenue surges 110% in Q2, driven by FTX claim sale
CoinShares revenue for the second quarter of 2024 rose to nearly $28.5 million. FTX bankruptcy proceedings generated a return of 116% in the quarter.
Trump Meme Coin DJT Falls to Nearly Zero as Dev-Linked Wallet ‘Rugs’
Weeks after controversy over whether Donald Trump had any connection to DJT, the meme coin’s price crashed Tuesday after a huge sale.
Convergence congratulates attacker, attempts to open negotiations
The Convergence team posted a message to the Ethereum network, stating it believes the attacker ‘acted as a white hat.’