Complicated workflows and overloaded menus frustrate you in the process of printing your 3D object. Plasticity throws a lot of baggage overboard. (Image: KI Midjourney | Collage c’t) April 3, 2024, 10:00 Clock Reading time: 10 minutes Announcement Plasticity alternative to the blender: for artists and hobbyists with 3D printers user interface Software library First […]
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Marimo is an exciting alternative to Jupyter notebooks. It is based on dependency management and is saved as pure Python code.
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Apple lawsuit: former employee passed on confidential information Apple filed a lawsuit against former employee Andrew A. in a California court in March 2024. The company accuses the former iOS software developer of passing confidential information to journalists and employees of other tech companies over a period of five years. This reports, among other things […]
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Following the AI video Sora, OpenAI introduces “Voice Engine,” an AI model for cloning user-defined voices, also used by HeyGen for its eponymous lip-syncing AI video translator. Voice Engine can generate natural voices very close to the speaker’s voice through text input and based on a 15-second audio recording, as the audio examples in the […]
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Many women in particular use Pinterest to search for wedding dresses, for example. It can be frustrating to only see extremely skinny women, but you have a completely normal figure. That’s why the platform now offers the possibility to select a body type. This then determines the search results. Announcement The function is obviously practical […]
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More sideloading: Apps will be allowed directly on European iPhones in the future Announcement The changes for iOS in Europe continue: the opening up of alternative app markets foreseen by the Digital Markets Act, which Apple implemented with iOS 17.4, obviously did not go far enough. In the future, developers will therefore be able to […]
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AMD has released new certification criteria for its FreeSync VRR (variable refresh rate) standard. Manufacturers who want to certify their displays according to one of the three FreeSync levels will have to meet more stringent requirements in the future. Specifically, AMD now requires higher refresh rates, but distinguishes between notebooks on the one hand and […]
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In the previous part of this series I have the class FrozenSet<T> in the namespace System.Collections.Frozen introduced, which is new in .NET 8.0. The question arises why Microsoft FrozentSet<T> also introduced. The answer to the question is, as often happens, performance. Announcement Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is the technical director of the expert network www.IT-Visions.de which, […]
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Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, the company he co-founded. Now Musk says OpenAI no longer lives up to its very name and original vision of being open and nonprofit. He, however, accuses the company of being dependent on Microsoft. In his opinion this contradicts the founding idea that he tries to fight. However, since Musk […]
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With the Cardlink procedure, scheduled for the next few weeks, online pharmacies hope to have access to electronic prescriptions. They asked for a sender solution for the electronic prescription, as currently insured people have to send an image of the electronic prescription printout to pharmacies. In this context, the use of an SMS code instead […]
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