Meta’s ‘Make-A-Scene’ AI blends human and computer imagination into algorithmic art

Text-to-image generation is the hot algorithmic process right now, with OpenAI’s Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini) and Google’s Imagen AIs unleashing tidal waves of wonderfully weird procedurally generated art synthesized from human and computer imaginati…

iOS 16 beta preview: A fun, useful and promising update

The iOS 16 public beta is here, which means you can get a taste of Apple’s upcoming mobile software before its stable release. As we saw at WWDC in June, the iPhone is slated to get a whole new lock screen, edit and send options in iMessage, improved d…

iPadOS 16 preview: Apple’s software is catching up with its hardware

When Apple put its M1 processor in the 2021 iPad Pro and iPad Air, I couldn’t help but wonder what all that power was for. The A-series chips that Apple had used in earlier models ran iPadOS extremely well, so seeing the same processor found in compute…

合格率15％の「ITストラテジスト試験」を記者が受けてみた

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macOS Ventura preview: Stage Manager is the star of the show

It’s rare for Apple to reshape the way people work on Macs, but that’s precisely what the company is trying to do with Stage Manager in macOS Ventura. At first glance, it’s just a quick visual way to swap between your recently used applications. But af…

Apple’s iOS 16, macOS Ventura and watchOS 9 public betas are ready to download

We’re a couple of months out from Apple officially rolling out the next major versions of its various operating systems. However, you can try out iOS 16, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9, macOS Ventura and tvOS 16 right now. Apple has released a public beta, a few…

AWSでAppleシリコンによるビルドやテストが可能に、「Amazon EC2 M1 Macインスタンス」が正式リリース

AWSでAppleシリコンによるビルドやテストが可能に、「Amazon EC2 M1 Macインスタンス」が正式リリース Amazon Web Services（AWS）は、Appleシリコンベースのインスタンスを提供する「Amazon EC2 M1 Macインスタンス」の正式リリースを発表しました。 Are you an Apple #developer working with #macOS? Now generally a…