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Honor’s slim Magic V5 foldable is fun to use, minus the huge camera bump

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-25 07:30:00

There is a spec war going on among companies to claim the crown of thinnest foldable. Phone manufacturers are playing with fractions of millimeters to boast about their phone’s thickness. Honor is winning this race on a theoretical basis with its 8.8mm (when folded) thick Magic V5 foldable. I’m saying theoretical because there is a huge, camera-bump-sized caveat to this. Image Credits: Ivan Mehta The thin frame of the device looks and feels great as long as you hold it in a way that your fi

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Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Schomay 2025-10-25 10:10:14

I made a game. It’s all in ASCII. I wondered if it would be possible to turn it into full motion graphics. In real time. With AI. Let me share how I did it. Let’s start with the game. Lately, I’ve been exploring just how far I can push old-school ASCII RPG style game frameworks. My latest one is called “Thunder Lizard,” which procedurally generates a prehistoric island populated with dinosaurs fighting for dominance as an active volcano threatens the whole island. You can go play it if you’d li

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Rendering an ASCII game in real-time with AI (100ms latency)

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Schomay 2025-10-25 15:10:14

I made a game. It’s all in ASCII. I wondered if it would be possible to turn it into full motion graphics. In real time. With AI. Let me share how I did it. Let’s start with the game. Lately, I’ve been exploring just how far I can push old-school ASCII RPG style game frameworks. My latest one is called “Thunder Lizard,” which procedurally generates a prehistoric island populated with dinosaurs fighting for dominance as an active volcano threatens the whole island. You can go play it if you’d li

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Nothing used stock photography in Phone 3 on-device ad (Updated: Explanation)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 10:40:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Nothing Phone 3 retail demo was spotted making misleading claims about photo samples. Android Authority has spoken to two of the photographers who shot the pics, who confirm they did not use the Phone 3 at all. Asked for comment, Nothing didn’t immediately deny the claims, but later offered an explanation. Update, August 27, 2025 (07:40 AM ET): Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has provided a detailed explanation for the stock photos found on Nothing

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Sending Nude Photos? Why Your Android Might Blur Them Automatically

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 10:30:00

Some Android users are starting to see a new privacy safeguard pop up in Google Messages. Images flagged as nudity are being blurred before you open them. It's part of Google's Sensitive Content Warning system, a feature designed to protect people from receiving unwanted or explicit photos. When enabled, as Google's Help Center post describes, the phone automatically scans images for nudity, blurs anything that looks explicit, and shows a warning before you view, send or forward it. The detecti

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Show HN: Chat with Nano Banana Directly from WhatsApp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 17:13:43

Nano Banana Generate and edit images using Google's latest release: Nano Banana. See what funny images you can create today

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Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-26 19:27:01

ChatGPT rivals like Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing the gap to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, according to a new report focused on the consumer AI landscape from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of data about consumers’ evolving use of AI products. And for the fifth time, 14 companies appeared on the list of top AI products: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, L

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Wallpaper Wednesday: Special Google Pixel 10 edition! (August 27)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-27 03:30:19

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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I Took Over 4,000 Photos With Hasselblad's X2D II Camera. These Are My Best

cnet.com Andrew Lanxon 2025-10-27 00:45:00

The Hasselblad X2D II 100C is one of the most accomplished stills cameras you can buy today. Featuring a massive medium-format sensor at its heart, the camera can capture huge 100-megapixel images with an incredible 15.3 stops of dynamic range, giving you endless scope to rescue highlights or lift shadows in editing. It provides up to 10 stops of image stabilization, allowing you to take hand-held photos with shutter speeds up to, and beyond, a second in length. There's also the faster lidar au

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Your Gemini app just got a major AI image editing upgrade - for free

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-27 23:13:00

Getty Images/gleitfrosch Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A mystery 'nano banana' image editing model climbed the charts. DeepMind was secretly behind the model, which is now available. Users can get started for free in the Gemini app. Every now and then, the LMArena will have a mystery model with a fun name shoot up to the top of the leaderboard. Shall I remind you of OpenAI's Project Strawberry? More recently, a mystery 'nano banana' model cli

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Job titles of the future: Satellite streak astronomer

technologyreview.com Tereza Pultarova 2025-10-28 07:00:00

But in 2019, SpaceX began deploying its internet-beaming Starlink constellation, and the astronomical community started to sound alarm bells. The satellites were orbiting too low and reflected too much sunlight, leaving bright marks in telescope images. A year later, Rawls and a handful of her colleagues were the first to make a scientific assessment of the satellite streaks’ effect on astronomical observations, using images from the Víctor M. Blanco telescope (which, like Rubin, is in Chile). “

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Nothing caught red-handed faking Phone 3 camera samples, can’t even try to deny (Updated: Explanation)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 08:40:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Nothing Phone 3 retail demo has been spotted making misleading claims about photo samples. Android Authority has spoken to two of the photographers who shot the pics, who confirm they did not use the Phone 3 at all. Asked for comment, Nothing has not denied these claims, and instead says that it plans to update demo units. Update, August 27, 2025 (07:40 AM ET): Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has provided a detailed explanation for the stock photos

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AI Is Everywhere in Photoshop. These Are the Best Tools I Found While Editing Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 07:00:07

Photoshop is chock-full of new tools powered by generative AI. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, and I've learned that not all AI tools are built equal. So I knew I had to take Photoshop's AI for a spin to see how it stacked up. AI might not be right for every Photoshop project you do, especially if you're a professional creator who regularly uses the program. There are some good tools to help your creative workflows, but you need to spend time

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Nothing caught red-handed faking Phone 3 camera samples, doesn’t even try to deny

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 18:41:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Nothing Phone 3 retail demo has been spotted making misleading claims about photo samples. Android Authority has spoken to two of the photographers who shot the pics, who confirm they did not use the Phone 3 at all. Asked for comment, Nothing has not denied these claims, and instead says that it plans to update demo units. Phone manufacturers, it’s time to wise up! You are selling to a market full of some exceptionally clever, resourceful tech fans, an

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Mysterious ‘Nano-Banana’ Project Revealed to Be Google’s Latest Image Editor

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-28 18:35:11

Google just upgraded its AI image model, and it actually looks to be a pretty significant step up. The company rolled out Gemini 2.5 Flash Image today, a major refresh that promises smarter and more flexible image generation. The upgraded model allows users to issue natural language prompts to not only generate images but also merge existing photos and make more precise edits without creating weird distortions. It also taps into Gemini’s “world knowledge” to better understand what it’s generati

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Gemini Nano Banana improves image editing consistency and control at scale for enterprises – but is not perfect

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-10-29 09:55:58

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a new model that many beta users knew as nanobanana, which gives enterprises more choice for creative projects. It enables them to change the look of images they need quickly and with more control than what previous models offered. The model will be integrated into the Gemini app. The model, built o

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Google improves Gemini AI image editing with “nano banana” model

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 10:03:34

Something unusual happened in the world of AI image editing recently. A new model, known as "nano banana," started making the rounds with impressive abilities that landed it at the top of the LMArena leaderboard. Now, Google has revealed that nano banana is an innovation from Google DeepMind, and it's being rolled out to the Gemini app today. AI image editing allows you to modify images with a prompt rather than mucking around in Photoshop. Google first provided editing capabilities in Gemini e

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Gemini expands image editing for enterprises: Consistency, collaboration, and control at scale

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-10-29 14:55:58

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google’s highly speculated new image model, which many beta users know as nanobanana, has finally been released as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and will be integrated into the Gemini app. The new model would give enterprises more choice for creative projects and enable them to change the look of images they need quickly. The model, built on top

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The latest Gemini app update fixes the AI images that didn’t look quite like you

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 18:00:28

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google has upgraded the image editing model in the Gemini app. The image editor is now better at maintaining a person’s likeness from one image to the next. You can now change a person’s outfit and location, blend multiple photos together to create a new image, make subsequent edits, and apply the style of one image to an object in another. Back in April, Google rolled out the ability to edit your AI images natively in the Gemini app. Although it’s nice

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Gemini image generation is adding more editing tools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 18:00:34

Google's Gemini is getting new features for editing images with AI. The latest image editing model is the work of the DeepMind artificial intelligence team, and these updates will be available starting today in the Gemini app. Google noted that all images either generated or edited in Gemini will be visibly and digitally watermarked to designate them as created with artificial intelligence. The first aspect of the new editing model offers consistency across different versions of an image. It's

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Top-rated mystery 'nano-banana' AI model rolls out to Gemini, as Google DeepMind claims responsibility

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-29 18:00:00

Getty Images/gleitfrosch Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A mystery 'nano banana' image editing model recently climbed up the LMArena charts. Google DeepMind was secretly behind the model, which is now publicly available. Users can get started for free today in the Gemini app. Every now and then, the LMArena will have a mystery model with a fun name shoot up to the top of the leaderboard. Shall I remind you of OpenAI's Project Strawberry? More r

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 18:01:46

We use extensive filtering and data labeling to minimize harmful content in datasets and reduce the likelihood of harmful outputs. We also conduct red teaming and evaluations on content safety, including child safety, and representation. Image generation in Gemini has all our latest privacy and safety features. This includes SynthID, our tool that embeds an invisible digital watermark directly into an image, allowing it to be identified as AI generated.

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Google's New AI Image Model 'Bananas' Is Here: How to Edit Your Photos With Gemini

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 18:00:03

Google wants you to ditch Photoshop for Gemini. A new generative AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, upgrades Gemini's ability to edit your photos natively in the Gemini app. It's available now for all Gemini users, free and paying, and is rolling out in preview this week in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. A recent preview version of the new model on LMArena sparked interest from Gemini fans, even though the model only ranked seventh as of Monday, behind leaders like OpenAI's i

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Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-29 18:00:00

Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos, a step meant to catch up with OpenAI’s popular image tools and draw users from ChatGPT. The update, called Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, rolls out starting Tuesday to all users in the Gemini app, as well as to developers via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI platforms. Gemini’s new AI image model is designed to make more precise edits to images — based on natural languag

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New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-30 22:34:57

Researchers have developed a novel attack that steals user data by injecting malicious prompts in images processed by AI systems before delivering them to a large language model. The method relies on full-resolution images that carry instructions invisible to the human eye but become apparent when the image quality is lowered through resampling algorithms. Developed by Trail of Bits researchers Kikimora Morozova and Suha Sabi Hussain, the attack builds upon a theory presented in a 2020 USENIX

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You should update your iPhone, iPad, and Mac ASAP to fix this dangerous security flaw

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-31 05:41:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has patched a serious security flaw on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Patch fixes a flaw that could allow an attacker to install spyware. The flaw has been exploited in the wild against targeted individuals. I know you're probably tired of constantly updating your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to fix one issue or another. But there's yet another update that you'll definitely want to install. And h

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You can now add AI images directly into LibreOffice documents - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-31 06:25:38

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways There's a new LibreOffice extension for AI-generated images. The extension uses AI Horde to generate images. Images are automatically placed in your document. Although I don't use AI for image generation, I know a lot of people who do. Some of those people regularly work with documents and need the ability to quickly insert AI-generated images into those documents. Last w

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Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 23:05:38

Prediction-Encoded Pixels This format is specifically designed to be for low-color pixel art (<=16 colors works best, up to 256 colors is supported). It uses "Prediction by Partial Matching, Order-2" compression, which is able to compress packed-palette-indices smaller than GIF, PNG, and QOI, while sacrificing a bit of time. It's 2-10x slower than GIF/PNG/QOI (depending on the image), but often compresses the image 20-50% smaller than GIF/PNG (and multiple-times smaller than QOI). If you care

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SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 17:29:02

SmallJS is a free and open source implementation of the elegant and powerful Smalltalk-80 (ST) language. It compiles to JavaScript (JS) that runs in modern browsers or in Node.js. SmallJS is file based, not image based, so you can develop in your favorite IDE. The default setup is for Visual Studio Code, with ST syntax coloring and step debugging! You code separately from the SmallJS base libraries (image) and only the parts you use are imported automatically when running your app. SmallJS is

Topics: browsers image js smalljs st

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Show HN: Bicyclopedia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 10:15:26

Welcome! This is an interactive exploration of the parts of a bicycle. If you're reading this message, the images may still be loading. If you are using a screen reader or have Javascript disabled, unfortunately you won't be able to see the images or animations of the parts, but you can still read the descriptions and source code here and read more about this project here. Thank you for visiting!

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