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NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth as ispace’s lunar lander takes flight

December 12, 2022

Sunday was a landmark day for both commercial and public space ventures, with NASA’s Orion capsule returning to Earth just hours after the launch of a privately funded and built lunar lander by Japanese company ispace. The two missions — the conclusion of NASA’s Artemis I and ispace’s Mission 1 — are some of the […]

NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth as ispace’s lunar lander takes flight by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success

December 12, 2022

Lensa’s AI popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The popular photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled portraits of themselves as sci-fi, anime, or fantasy characters, […]

AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent

December 12, 2022
When I tried the new viral AI avatar app Lensa, I was hoping to get results similar to some of my colleagues at MIT Technology Review. The digital retouching app was first launched in 2018 but has recently become wildly popular thanks to the addition of Magic Avatars, an AI-powered feature which generates digital portraits…

Vinfast takes the IPO path, TuSimple and Navistar break up and Rad Power Bikes makes its most important product yet

December 12, 2022

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Vinfast takes the IPO path, TuSimple and Navistar break up and Rad Power Bikes makes its most important product yet by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: year in review, and the big problem with ChatGPT

December 12, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. MIT Technology Review’s biggest stories of the year As 2022 starts to draw to a close, we thought it was high time to take a look back over the most popular stories we’ve…