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Adobe Lightroom has rolled out a fleet of helpful new tools for photo editing. Geared towards abilities across the spectrum, from professional photographers to total amateurs, the innovations use AI for a smarter photo editing experience.Powered by Adobe’s own Sensei AI, leading the lineup is Adaptive Presets, which allow users to adjust environmental details such as the color of the sky or water. Rather than having to specify certain areas, these presets apply masks in one go and can be adjusted with single clicks. Going hand in hand with the presets is Masking categories for Select People, serving to single out individuals in an image so that the editor can edit and enhance features like the color of their shirt or texture of their hair.Within the sphere of masking, Denoise removes digit...

Up until now, Instagram has only allowed users to add a single link to their profile, requiring users to resort to Linktree to display multiple links to other social media channels, websites, portfolios and online shops.After years of requests from its users, Instagram is finally letting users add more than one link. The news was announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Instagram broadcast channel, another new feature the app rolled out a few months ago.“You can now add up to five links in your Instagram bio,” he said. “Probably one of the most requested features we’ve had.”Users can add the links via the section dedicated to editing their profile, where they can also choose what to title each link and how to order them. Not all five links will be immediately shown on one's profile tho...

SpaceX abandoned plans for an orbital test launch just an hour before its Starship was set to take off. The company had readied for the debut of its new Starship cruise vessel and Super Heavy rocket-combination vehicle.Together, the vessel and rocket stand 394 feet (120 m) tall. Takeoff was scheduled from the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas sometime within a two-hour window that began at 8 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 17.Elon Musk was keeping the public updated on the launch, tweeting around 7 a.m. that a “cryogenic propellant load of Starship is underway” and foreshadowing “liftoff in T minus 1 hour.”Shortly after, the SpaceX CEO returned with an update: a pressurization valve in the rocket booster was frozen, making the launch impossible.“A pressurant valve appears to be fr...

Following a collaboration with PRIX for a translucent mechanical keyboard and Crunchyroll for Jujutsu Kaisen-themed keyboards, gaming peripherals brand Higround now partners with the Street Fighter™ franchise for its first international drop, available in Europe, the U.S., and Japan.The upcoming series will feature two iterations of the Basecamp 65 keyboard and two of the Summit 65 keyboard — one of which will be exclusive to Japan. The Summit 65, which features its own keycap designs, is Higround's flagship product featuring a full CNC aluminum case, gasket-mounted design with Poron foam, RGB lighting with South-facing LED, hex screw design made for easy DIY customizations, and the world’s first graphic switch. Keycap graphics feature that of either the fighter Akuma or a classic f...

In a recent interview with Fox News, Elon Musk voiced his qualms about the current AI systems and announced plans of creating TruthGPT to rival OpenAI's chatbots and Google's DeepMind which currently dominate the space.Musk said he was involved with OpenAI in its early beginnings in order to create a counterweight to Google with plans to do good. However he now criticizes the company of going the wrong direction, pointing out how its become "close-source, support profit, and closely allied with Microsoft." So much so that, "in effect Microsoft has a very strong say if not directly controls OpenAI at this point," he claims. Musk is also concerned about AI being trained to be politically correct, which he views as simply another way of saying untruthful things and a path towards AI dystopia....