Mar 08
Bethesda’s “Starfield” finally has a firm release date, but it’s not as soon as many fans would like. There is a bit of good news as well, however.
Mar 08
If you’re looking for a new phone and you want to stay away from Apple, we have some great suggestions for you in a wide range of budgets and capabilities.
Mar 08
This week’s Mandalorian whisked us back to the ravaged homeworld of the once-warrior race, Mandalore, to further delve into the complicated history of its people and its warring cultures. But it climaxed with Bo-Katan Kryze and Din Djarin uncovering something that could change the world—and what’s left of its…
Mar 08
In 1970, International Harvester (yes, the tractor company) released its Scout SR-2 limited edition. Less than 2,000 of these rugged proto-SUVs were ever built.
Mar 08
YouTube can be an excellent way for creators to monetize their efforts — but to do so, you’ll need the right equipment to get the job done.
Mar 08
11 Fairly Competent Time Travelers
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Keeping the timeline intact is hard. Just ask the Avengers. Or the Legends of Tomorrow. Or Back to the Future’s Doc Brown, Army of Darkness’ Ash, or… well, you get the idea. About the best a time-traveler can hope for is to metaphorically step on a butterfly that doesn’t have too big an effect on the future. As such,…
Mar 08
Sexual Deepfakes of Emma Watson Ran Rampant on Facebook and Instagram This Week
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As the role of artificial intelligence appears to continue growing in our daily lives, it’s taking people’s likeness along with it. This week, hundreds of deepfaked videos featuring faces that looked exactly like Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson ran across Facebook and Instagram as part of an apparent advertising…
Mar 08
NVIDIA video card owners already have the luxury of video upscaling in Chrome or Edge, but what if you have an AMD board? Microsoft thinks it can help. It’s testing a Video Super Resolution feature in Edge Canary that upscales and removes artifacts on web videos below 720p using both AMD- and NVIDIA-powered GPUs (sorry, Intel Arc fans). You’ll need at least a GeForce RTX 20 series or Radeon RX5700, but this could help if you’re watching an ancient YouTube video or want to save bandwidth on a capped data plan.
There are some conditions. This is only for Windows users, for a start. You have to plug in if you’re using a laptop, and the video can’t use a digital rights management (DRM) system like PlayReady or Widevine. At present, you’ll also have to force Edge to use your dedicated GPU if your laptop has a hybrid graphics setup. Automatic hybrid video support is in development, Microsoft says.
The technology relies on GPU-agnostic algorithms. Microsoft had to add a DirectX 12 pipeline to Google’s Chromium engine (which normally uses DirectX 11) so that its machine learning framework can interact with the browser. Compression helps keep the computational load relatively light.
Video Super Resolution is only available to a handful of Edge Canary users at the moment, but should come to more users in the “coming weeks,” the company adds. It also plans to widen the list of supported GPUs, so don’t be disheartened if your hardware isn’t initially compatible. Just be patient if you aren’t willing to use experimental software — it’ll likely take a while before betas and polished versions support the feature.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-edge-can-now-use-amd-and-nvidia-gpus-to-upscale-web-videos-202557842.html?src=rss
Mar 08
Anonymous browser and search engine developer DuckDuckGo has announced that it’s also getting into artificial intelligence, but there’s a key difference.
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