Watch out, Canva! Microsoft just revealed a new graphic design app called Designer, which uses OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 to power it with tex-to-image generation tech. Microsoft will soon allow you to access its Canva-like web app for free if you get on the waitlist. The tool will enable users...
Our favorite browser to download Chrome on, Internet Explorer, retired this Wednesday after Microsoft officially called it quits, ending IE’s nearly 27-year run. * Internet Explorer is currently inoperable in specific versions of Windows 11 and supported versions of Windows 10 and has been replaced by Microsoft Edge. * According to...
Microsoft president Brad Smith suggested that unregulated AI like facial recognition could result in widespread mass surveillance similar to the premise of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 if more laws aren’t established to protect people. Smith shared his thoughts on the subject while speaking to BBC Panorama on...
The capped-profit AI research and deployment company, OpenAI, is launching a $100 million fund to invest in early-stage startups that use artificial intelligence to advance various industries. The fund, which includes Microsoft as one of its investors, will be directly managed by OpenAI. Founder Sam Altman has announced that the...
During its Ignite 2021 conference last week, Microsoft unveiled Mesh, its new mixed reality platform powered by Microsoft Azure that allows users to connect and collaborate remotely from multiple devices via “shared holographic experiences". In Mesh, people will initially appear as virtual avatars from the AltspaceVR social VR platform which...
