He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to ...

Starmer may be taking aim at YouTube, but he won’t hit the target

Keir Starmer’s proposed ban on social media for under-16s will target 10 companies in particular: TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, ...
The State

SC wants teens off their screens. Ban on autoplay videos in new social media law

Young teenagers in South Carolina will no longer be able to see like counts, stay up late watching autoplay videos or receive notifications for new posts on social media under a law signed by Gov.
Variety

YouTube Will Start Automatically Tagging Videos That Make ‘Significant’ Use of AI, and It’s Making Labels for AI-Generated Content More Prominent

Is that YouTube video clip you’re watching real or was it made with AI? YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers to know when content on its platform is AI-generated. In 2024, it started labeling ...
Indiatimes

Tharoor Cites India’s Maldives Water Aid As Example Of Strategic Regional Diplomacy

Congress Leader P L Punia Urges Immediate Seat Sharing Talks With SP Ahead Of UP Polls Amid tensions within the INDIA bloc following Congress’s decision to back Vijay’s TVK in Tamil Nadu, the ...
CNET

Android Auto Now Fits Weirdly Shaped Screens and Streams Video While Parked

The overhaul -- including the biggest Google Maps update in a decade -- brings a full UI refresh and new Gemini capabilities to more than 250 million vehicles. Antuan started out in the automotive ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Clump of Human Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Learned to Play the Nostalgic Video Game ‘Doom’

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...
New York Magazine

The Story Behind All Those Fruit and Veggie AI Slop Videos

“Stay close, my tiny little noodles,” the mother spaghetti strand says, desperately clinging to her two adorable pasta daughters as a disembodied fist grips them over a boiling pot of water. “My sweet ...
Tech Digest

Are infinite scrolling and autoplay creating social media addicts? Lootbox games to get age restrictions

It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier, ...
Wired

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. When disinformation expert Tal Hagin asked Grok to verify a post ...
PC World

Why your AI videos look distorted—and 5 fixes that actually work

PCWorld explains why AI-generated videos often appear distorted, focusing on common prompt mistakes that cause character inconsistencies, jerky movements, and rendering errors. These issues matter ...