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Netflix’s promotional Streamberry site, inspired by the parody version of the streaming platform in the Black Mirror Season 6 episode “Joan Is Awful,” is indeed using your image in a marketing campaign in the UK.

Launched Tuesday, Netflix’s Streamberry site (opens in a new tab) allows you to “sign up” to the platform, which looks remarkably like Netflix’s own. Signing up requires you to upload or take a photo of yourself which “may end up on a billboard” — an instant red flag if you’ve watched the Black Mirror episode.

This is a really cool story that shows how you can use AI. People don’t even know many AI tools that exist, like Adobe Podcast, or that you can remove the background of a video without chroma key (green screen)

Today, I’ll show you how I selected and used three AI tools to help improve a short informational video for my YouTube channel. One tool rescued the entire little project, and the others punched up the end result. For this project, we’ll be using Adobe’s Photoshop Beta, Adobe Podcast, and the latest version of Apple’s Final Cut Pro for Mac.

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I just posted a story and commented that people don’t even know how many AI tools exist. There are many. I can decorate my house without an interior designer, and much more. Here are 5 AI editing tools for video.

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Mars Perseverance Rover struggled to collect samples from a crumbly, potentially conglomerate rock at the Onahu outcrop, before exploring another location, Stone Man Pass. Meanwhile, the rover continues to analyze nearby boulders and progress towards Jezero’s inner rim, home to the anticipated carbonate-rich “margin unit,” in pursuit of insights into Mars’ geological history.

Recently on Mars, Perseverance wrestled with sampling a crumbly rock and continued the mission’s boulder-bonanza!

Perseverance spent 3 weeks exploring the Onahu outcrop, after having previously performed an abrasion named Ouzel Falls. From this abrasion, scientists saw that the rock is most likely a conglomerate worth sampling, but was also likely to be crumbly.

In a new paper published today in Nature, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have outlined the structure and function of a protein complex that is required to repair damaged DNA and protect against cancer.

Every time a cell replicates, mistakes can happen in the form of mutations, but specialized proteins exist to repair the damaged DNA.

People with mutations in a DNA repair protein called BRCA2 are predisposed to breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, which often develop at a young age. In the clinic, these cancers are treated with a drug that inhibits PARP, another protein needed for DNA repair.

Shouldn’t Facebook have alerted us and not CBS News?

The fake notice went on to say that a photo uploaded to the account’s page violated Facebook’s copyright infringement policy and that the decision could be appealed within 24 hours.

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Extreme heat is increasing electricity demand as people crank up the AC. The strain could be too much.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a novel computer memory design that could boost performance using less energy.

Cambridge scientists have developed a new prototype for computer memory that could make for faster chips that could hold up to 100 times more data. The system is made up of barium bridges between films of a disordered material.

As powerful as current computer technology can be, there are a few hard limits to it. Data is encoded into just two states – one or zero. And this data is stored and processed in different parts of a computer system, so it needs to be shuttled back and forth, which consumes energy and time.

But an emerging form of computer memory, known as resistive switching memory, is designed to be far more efficient. Rather than flipping a bit of information into one of two possible states, this new kind of memory can create a continuous range of states. This is done by applying an electrical current to certain types of materials, which causes their electrical resistance to become either stronger or weaker. A broad spectrum of these slight differences in electrical resistance creates a series of possible states to store data.