Chinese AI video generator Kling is now available internationally

Kling, which launched nationally last month, is now available to users around the world. It can produce 2-minute 30 fps / 720p HD videos using prompts up to 2,000 characters in length. Users can also create 5-second clips using text and image inputs and then incrementally extend their length by 4.5 seconds at a time. […]

Employing techniques used by astronomers to “measure the shapes of galaxies”, a team of researchers at the University of Hull led by Masters student Adejumoke Owolabi has found that deepfaked humans don’t have the same consistency in reflections across both eyes, allowing them to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated or not. […]

Judy Garland, Burt Reynolds, James Dean … Sir Laurence Olivier. Thanks to AI voice start-up ElevenLabs’ Reader app and its new Iconic Voices collection, they have new posthumous careers and no doubt new fans (of their voices at least) and their estates have a new source of income. Their voices are being popularly used to […]

Using Terahertz waves, “the world’s first O to U-band transmission system capable of DWDM transmission in a commercially available standard optical fiber achieved with custom designed amplifier technology,”, researchers at the Photonic Network Laboratory of Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have achieved a broadband speed that puts it right at the top […]