The owner of the music of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and other “Peanuts” television specials filed four lawsuits Wednesday against defendants including the U.S. Department of the Interior, alleging they illegally used the jazzy ditties of pianist Vince Guaraldi in social media posts and a video game. Lee Mendelson Film Productions filed the suits in … Read more
First is image animation. A neural network reads facial landmarks, predicts lip and brow movement, then redraws each frame so the portrait appears to sing in time. Second is generative video. Diffusion models transform pixels into fresh, coherent scenes, such as cover art melting into a swirling galaxy or a selfie that zooms out to … Read more
As the Artemis II mission crew heads back toward Earth following a history-making trip around the moon this week, NASA dropped the astronauts‘ highly anticipated morning playlist. “You asked for it. Here it is,” NASA wrote Wednesday on social media, sharing the list via Spotify. “Each track was selected by the Moon crew, continuing a tradition … Read more