All posts tagged: creating

Anthropic Debuts Claude Design for Creating Prototypes, Pitch Decks, and Mockups

Anthropic Debuts Claude Design for Creating Prototypes, Pitch Decks, and Mockups

Published by skeptic

Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new AI product for creating designs, prototypes, slides, and more. Claude Design uses Opus 4.7, a new AI model that was introduced earlier this week. Opus 4.7 is Anthropic’s most capable vision model, and it can see images in greater resolution. Anthropic says that it is “more tasteful and creative” when doing professional tasks. It is able to create higher-quality interfaces, slides, and docs, making it ideal for Claude Design. Claude Design was developed to allow founders, product managers, and marketers without a design background to create visuals for sharing an idea. Claude Design is able to mock up an initial design after being provided with a prompt, and from there, designers can make revisions through conversation, comments, direct edits, and custom sliders made by Claude. Anthropic says that teams have been using Claude Design for realistic prototypes, wireframes and mockups, design explorations, pitch decks, presentations, social media assets, and more. Working with Claude Design starts with brand assets, which Claude can get from the user’s design files and …

Schools bill risks creating ‘two-tier’ education system, NSS warns

Schools bill risks creating ‘two-tier’ education system, NSS warns

Published by Sam Flores

A Government bill intended to tackle the problem of unregistered faith schools risks creating a ‘two-tier’ system of educational provision, the National Secular Society has warned. Writing to the Government, the NSS raised concerns that the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will apply less stringent standards to unregistered faith schools by reclassifying them as ‘non-school’ independent educational institutions (IEI). Currently, if an institution provides full time education to more than five pupils of compulsory school age, it is legally defined as a school. Any institution which meets the legal definition of a school must register with the Department for Education, although some deliberately evade registration in order to teach a very narrow, religion-based curriculum without oversight. Under changes set to be introduced by the bill, some institutions which provide full time education would not be classified as schools, and would instead be registered as ‘non-school’ IEIs. The NSS said this potentially includes yeshivas – Jewish scripture schools for boys – a significant number of which operate covertly as illegal unregistered schools, or use loopholes to …

Expecting charity shops to recycle your unwanted clothes is creating a rubbish pile – here’s how to help to avoid that

Expecting charity shops to recycle your unwanted clothes is creating a rubbish pile – here’s how to help to avoid that

Published by Sam Flores

Charity shops are generally seen as a responsible way to get rid of unwanted belongings. In theory, donating items allows them to be reused and raises money for important causes. However, many charity shops struggle to make use of the donations they receive. The UK has more charity shops per person than any other country, handling hundreds of thousands of tonnes of used clothing every year in addition to a wide range of other household items. When goods are donated to charity shops, they are either sold to local customers to be reused or purchased by commercial companies and traded through complex international markets. An estimated 70-90% of donated goods follow these routes, with local traders reusing and recycling as much as possible. However, large quantities are also dumped and burned, resulting in environmental damage and waste. My ongoing research shows the challenges charity shops face in reusing donated goods. Charity shops are the primary outlet for used textiles in the UK: roughly half of all textiles currently collected for reuse and recycling are charity …

‘Prosthetics aren’t made for people like us’: the brothers creating innovative artificial limbs for Africans | Global development

‘Prosthetics aren’t made for people like us’: the brothers creating innovative artificial limbs for Africans | Global development

Published by Sam Flores

On a humid morning in Uyo, Nigeria, Ubokobong Amanam shows off the lifelike prosthetic where his fingers once were. The skin bears tiny wrinkles, and the nails are naturally shaped. Seven years ago, he was badly injured in a firework accident. Doctors could save him, but not his fingers. The prosthetics available at the time were clumsy, poorly fitted and designed for bodies nothing like his. “At first, it was deeply disappointing to realise there were no hyper-realistic or even realistic African-style prosthetics,” he says. “That discovery made me feel worse and intensified my depression.” But his brother, John Amanam, was a special effects artist, making replicas of human bodies for film and theatre. Together they began work on a better hand for Ubokobong, designing a prosthetic that did not yet exist, one made for Africans by Africans. There was, they knew, a staggering level of need: millions of Africans cannot access prosthetics due to high costs and a lack of availability. And even when prosthetics are available, they are often imported and designed for …

Man Pleads Guilty to Making Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams

Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech For quite some time now, human musicians have watched in horror as AI-generated slop has started drowning out their work on streaming platforms. Companies like Spotify have discovered entire networks of bots that were designed to fraudulently boost the listenership of AI-generated music, a bizarre scheme essentially involving bots listening to bot music to capture royalties that could’ve otherwise been paid out to real human artists. The problem has been around for years — but prosecutors are finally catching onto the dubious scheme and putting those running the bot farms to justice. In a Department of Justice press release, the Southern District of New York attorney Jay Clayton announced that North Carolina native Michael Smith had plead guilty for creating “hundreds of thousands of songs with AI” and using “automated programs called ‘bots’ to fraudulently stream his AI-generated songs billions of times.” The goal was to “mimic the genuine streaming activity of real consumers,” ultimately allowing him to …

China’s wind and solar boom is creating waste, but there’s a plan

China’s wind and solar boom is creating waste, but there’s a plan

Published by skeptic

Photo: China News Service China’s clean energy boom is saddled with a major challenge: what to do with all its old wind and solar equipment. The country, which is the world leader in renewable energy capacity, has built solar and wind at a staggering pace. As of March 2025, China’s combined installed wind and solar capacity topped 1.48 billion kilowatts for the first time ever, surpassing thermal power. But now the first wave of that buildout is aging out. Wind turbines and solar panels are typically designed to last around 20 to 25 years. That means early projects are starting to be retired, and the volumes are huge. By 2050, decommissioned solar panels in China could total around 20 million tonnes. Retired wind turbine blades are expected to hit about 3 million tonnes by 2035. Advertisement – scroll for more content That raises a big question: How do you recycle all of it? China’s ‘last mile’ problem State-owned China Energy Investment Corporation (CHN Energy), which says it has the world’s largest installed wind capacity, is trying …

Creating Our Own Luck: 4 Ideas for Taking Decisive Action

Creating Our Own Luck: 4 Ideas for Taking Decisive Action

Published by Jenni Sidey

Four-leaf clovers, cracks in the sidewalk, salt over the shoulder, crossed fingers, ladybugs, black cats, sevens, thirteens, or blowing on dice can all evoke different luck-related symbols. Many cultures have stories and superstitions about actions or objects being lucky or unlucky, but the one thing we know for sure is that deliberate, persistent action helps us create our own luck. Yes, there are random acts of life that occur, from winning a raffle ticket to being the unfortunate victim of someone else running a red light; however, most of life relates to our taking definitive action to create the kind of life towards which we are striving. Even when seemingly lucky or unlucky things occur in our life, how we choose to handle those matters most. Four metaphors are presented here to highlight key aspects of adopting an active approach to life. When we foster positive mindsets and seize opportunities through consistent effort, we create ways to attract good fortune for ourselves. Positive Mindset: Cleaning the Lens How we approach life and our situations matters. …

The AI Boom Is Creating A Global Memory Chip Shortage

The AI Boom Is Creating A Global Memory Chip Shortage

Published by Jenni Sidey

A global shortage of memory chips is emerging as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure surges, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Large technology companies are locking in supply by signing long-term agreements and paying higher prices to guarantee access to chips years in advance. Because these deals are more profitable, chip manufacturers are increasingly directing production toward AI customers. This shift has reduced the number of chips available for other products such as laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles, and cars, pushing prices sharply upward. Memory chips play a critical role in modern computing because they store and deliver data to processors, which carry out calculations. Without sufficient memory, devices would struggle to run applications, load programs, or process data efficiently. Two types dominate the industry. DRAM functions as short-term working memory that computers and servers use to quickly access active data. NAND flash memory serves as long-term storage, holding files, photos, and software even when devices are powered off. Bloomberg writes that Artificial intelligence systems require enormous amounts of memory, especially a newer design known …

Scientists are creating a much broader picture of the aging brain

Scientists are creating a much broader picture of the aging brain

Published by Jenni Sidey

Memories rarely arrive as an unbroken stream. The brain quietly divides life into segments: entering a room, starting a conversation, or watching a new scene unfold. Each shift creates a mental boundary, separating one experience from the next. Scientists increasingly believe those boundaries shape how well people remember events, especially as they age. A research team led by Audrey Duarte, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, has explored whether strengthening those natural divisions might improve memory. Their study introduces a simple method called “event tagging,” which asks people to briefly summarize what just happened using a few keywords. The approach may sound trivial. Yet the findings suggest those short pauses can sharpen recall of recent experiences, including among older adults who often experience declines in episodic memory. Intervention and cued recall paradigm. A) Tagging and control procedures and timing. B) Timeline reflecting the location of within- and between-event cues for the cued recall procedure. (CREDIT: PsyArXiv) Episodic memory refers to the ability to remember personal events, from conversations to moments in …

Trump’s Choice To Attack Iran Creating Worldwide Chaos Just Days In

Trump’s Choice To Attack Iran Creating Worldwide Chaos Just Days In

Published by Sam Flores

When Donald Trump posted a brief video early on Saturday about the war he had just started with Iran, he neglected to mention the predictable consequences. Like a plunging stock market. Or spiking oil prices worldwide and gasoline prices at home. Or tens of thousands of American citizens stranded in the Middle East. Or Iran striking out at its neighbours and whipping up a metastasising regional war. Not four days later, all of these have come to pass, which is likely to make Trump’s massive attack on Iran at the behest of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu even less popular among Americans than it already is. “It’s not clear to me what Trump’s main objective is, or how long it will last before something else takes its place,” said John Bolton, one of Trump’s national security advisers in his first term and a decades-long proponent of taking a hard line against Iran. “There’s a compelling case for regime change in Iran, but he hasn’t made it yet.” The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday closed 1,000 …