Technology

A red Coca-Cola truck drives down a snowy, tree-lined road at night, with holiday lights on the trees and a starry sky above. Mountains are visible in the background.

Generative AI Is Here to Ruin Christmas

Despite the controversy surrounding its use of generative AI to create a trio of Christmas advertisements last year, Coca-Cola has once again returned to the world's driest well, churning out yet another terrible AI-generated advertisement.

A person's hands hold a smartphone, taking a picture of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The landmark is blurred in the background but clearly visible on the phone screen.

How One Professor Revolutionized Smartphone Photography

Smartphones have fundamentally changed photography, enabling people with no camera skill to shoot acceptable images. And that is largely down to something called computational photography that smartly manipulates the sensor so that shadows and highlights are visible in the same shot.