Technology

'It's frightening': YouTubers split over OpenAI's video tool Sora
'It's frightening': YouTubers split over OpenAI's video tool Sora
by  AFP

US firm OpenAI debuted a tool last week that can generate highly realistic snippets of video from just a few lines of text, leading content creators to wonder if they are the latest professionals about to be replaced by algorithms. YouTube itself announced last September it was developing a tool to let creators make AI-generated videos and background pictures.

Utah parenting vlogger sentenced to prison for child abuse
Utah parenting vlogger sentenced to prison for child abuse
by  AFP

A Utah mother-of-six who doled out parenting advice on a popular YouTube channel has been sentenced to prison for abusing her children, holding two of them in conditions prosecutors likened to concentration camps. Utah prosecutor Eric Clarke said Franke and Hildebrandt held two of the children, then aged nine and 11, in a "concentration camp-like setting."

Lawyers for US urge UK court to reject Assange appeal bid
Lawyers for US urge UK court to reject Assange appeal bid
by  AFP

Lawyers for the United States on Wednesday urged a UK court to block a last-ditch bid by Julian Assange to appeal his extradition to the country to face espionage charges. "Mr Assange was exposing serious state criminality," his lawyer Edward Fitzgerald told the court.

Musk says patient moves cursor with brain implant
Musk says patient moves cursor with brain implant
by  AFP

Elon Musk says the first human patient with a brain implant from his Neuralink startup is able to move a computer mouse with thought. The patient is able to "move the mouse around the screen just by thinking," Musk said.

Directors should 'control' tech, not fear it: Scorsese
Directors should 'control' tech, not fear it: Scorsese
by  AFP

US cinema legend Martin Scorsese said Tuesday directors should harness technology to serve their "voice" rather than fearing it will kill their industry. Scorsese said with entertainment technology now changing "so exhaustively and rapidly", "the only thing they (filmmakers) could really hold onto is the individual voice".