The Los Angeles-based video gaming clipping service, Medal, has made its first acquisition as it rolls out new features to its user base. The company has acquired the Discord -based donations and payments service Donate Bot to enable direct payments and other types of transactions directly on its site. Now, the company is rolling out […]
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This handy Twitter video downloader bot is now seeing 7,500 requests a day
Not all the bots on Twitter are spammers or democracy hackers. You may recall seeing requests to the Thread Reader app bot to “unroll” a long thread into readable copy, for example, and in more recent days you may have spotted Twitter users tagging a newer bot, @this_vid, on tweets with a video file attached. […]
View More This handy Twitter video downloader bot is now seeing 7,500 requests a dayJimmy Fallon geeks out over ‘unbelievable’ FedEx delivery bot
“This is the future right here,” said Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.
He was watching FedEx’s new SameDay autonomous delivery bot navigate through sand, rocks, water, and up a step.
“This is unbelievable,” Fallon said in what seemed l…
This bot-generated Coachella line-up is incredible
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We already knew bots can do so many things (like writing Harry Potter) but it turns out they’re also awesome at coming up with band names.
Botnik studios have produced a fictional line-up for Coachella, and the band names are predictably unpredictable.
Announcing your 2018 COACHELLA LINEUP, generated by a neural network trained on thousands of band names: https://t.co/EskuBWOdfy pic.twitter.com/J06jgc3x2R
— Botnik Studios (@botnikstudios) January 23, 2018
People were thrilled to see their favourite made-up bands playing the festival, and even argued passionately about them. Read more…
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Microsoft’s new drawing bot is an AI artist
Microsoft today is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology that’s something of an artist – a “drawing bot.” The bot is capable of creating images from text descriptions of an object, but it also adds details to those images that weren’t included the text, indicating that the AI has a little imagination of its own, says Microsoft. “If you go to Bing… Read More
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HQ Trivia is coming to Android, Amazon Echo is the No. 1 best seller on the site and the founder of LeEco is ordered to return to China. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
View More HQ Trivia Is Coming to Android | Crunch Report‘Harry Potter’ written by a bot is gloriously illustrated by a human
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To be fair, how could you not illustrate Harry Potter and the Portrait of what looked like a large Pile of Ash?
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After a bot wrote an absolutely incredible chapter of Harry Potter, one artist saw the opportunity of a lifetime.
I have to draw some moments from this bot-written Harry Potter chapter#loudslowsoftbird https://t.co/YdKLyJd64o pic.twitter.com/3Xywuaa5uQ
— Megan Nicole Dong (@sketchshark) December 14, 2017
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