Adobe is releasing new AI features for its Lightroom suite that aim to speed up some of the more tedious parts of image editing. That includes improving masking workflows and removing unwanted elements from your images.

AI masking is being upgraded with new tools such as Select People, Select Objects, and one-click Select Background. The Select People feature can automatically detect and create layer masks in high detail, even on specific areas of a subject. The face, body, skin, eyes, teeth, lips, hair, and more can be detected with a single click, eliminating the time-consuming need to carefully create your own masks and generally speeding up the image editing process.

Previous selective adjustments such as Select Sky and Select Subject were introduced to Lightroom back in October 2021, and Photoshop has had similar Select Subject functionality for some time; however, this new feature specifically optimizes masking areas of human subjects.

Select Objects will similarly detect and mask objects in Lightroom using the Brush Select tool. AI will then automatically refine the edges of your selection to create a mask, which Adobe says is capable of detecting fine details such as stray hair and eyelashes. One-Click Select Background will use a similar AI-powered feature to eradicate the need to invert a mask of a subject in order to change its backdrop, allowing you to directly generate a background

Keanu Reeves has played some iconic characters in his 58 years, including John Wick, Ted in the Bill & Ted movies and Neo in The Matrix films. But he has yet to play the role his kid self would like to see him tackle. In an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Reeves revealed that role.

Reeves shared details of his comic-book-loving childhood with Kimmel, who asked which character a 10-year-old Keanu would want to play.

“10-year-old Reeves would want to … I think he’d probably want to be Ghost Rider,” the actor said.

Ghost Rider, aka Johnny Blaze, is a stunt motorcyclist with a flaming skull for a head and a flaming motorcycle. Nicolas Cage famously — or infamously, based on the mostly negative reviews — played him in a 2007 movie and 2012 sequels.

Linking Reeves and Ghost Rider is nothing new. In 2019, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said the studio was talking to Reeves “for almost every film we make,” and fans were quick to suggest the motorcycle-loving Reeves play Ghost Rider.

There are no official plans for Reeves to star as Ghost Rider … yet. But he’s still getting some comic book action, as he’ll star in both a Netflix film and anime series based on the BRZRKR comic series he co-created. The character, who looks just like Reeves, is an immortal warrior who fights battles that are “too violent and dangerous” for anyone else.

Taco Bell is trying out Beyond Meat this month: The plant-based protein will appear in Beyond Carne Asada Steak, available at a limited number of Taco Bel locations starting Oct. 13.

It replicates the “taste and texture of marinated, grilled steak,” Dariush Ajami, Beyond Meat’s chief innovation officer, said in a statement, and can be added to quesadillas, tacos and other menu items for the same price as traditional beef steak.

“We’ve long believed that anyone should be able to choose plant-based menu items without compromising the flavors they crave,” Liz Matthews, Taco Bell’s global chief food innovation officer, said in a statement.

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Made from a variety of plant-based ingredients, including wheat gluten and faba bean protein, Beyond Meat has already appeared on menus at McDonald’s, Dunkin, Del Taco and Carl’s Jr. It’s also been tested out at KFC and Pizza Hut — both of which, like Taco Bell, are subsidiaries of Yum Brands.

For now, Beyond Carne Asada Steak will only be available at approximately 50 Taco Bell locations around Dayton, Ohio. A spokesperson did not say whether there were plans to roll the item out wider.

“As for the future, we never say never,” the rep told CNET in an email. “As we listen to fans, we’re constantly evolving our offerings, plant-based and otherwise.”

Last year, vegetarian options represented more than 12% of Taco Bell’s total sales., the company said. In August, it tested a

Nvidia has announced a “multi-year collaboration” with Microsoft to build “one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world,” designed to handle the huge computing workloads needed to train and scale AI. The collaboration will see Nvidia utilizing Microsoft’s scalable virtual machine instances to accelerate advances in generative AI models like DALL-E.

Based on Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure, the AI ​​supercomputer will use tens of thousands of Nvidia’s powerful and data center GPUs and its . According to Nvidia, the combination of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and Nvidia’s GPUs, networking, and full AI suite will allow more enterprises to train, deploy, and scale AI — including large, state-of-the-art models. The two companies will also collaboratively develop DeepSpeedMicrosoft’s deep learning optimization software.

in a statement, Nvidia said the supercomputer could be used to “research and further accelerate advances in generative AI,” a relatively new class of large language models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion that use self-learning algorithms to create a diverse range of content, such as text, code, digital images, video, and audio. These AI models have seen rapid growth in recent years which has significantly raised the demand for powerful computing infrastructure capable of scaling alongside their development.

“AI technology advances as well as industry adoption is accelerating. The breakthrough of foundation models has triggered a tidal wave of research, fostered new startups and enabled new enterprise applications,” said Nvidia vice

The “anything you can do, I can do better” back and forth between Meta and Apple has made its way to a New York City billboard just outside the famous “crossroads of the world” in Times Square. This time, it’s about Apple’s iMessage.

Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced a new billboard above Pennsylvania Station, just south of Times Square and near the famous Broadway area theaters, to attack Apple. This time, his company is taking on the iPhone maker’s popular iMessage texting service, contending that Meta’s WhatsApp is more trustworthy.

“WhatsApp is far more private and secure than iMessage, with end-to-end encryption that works across both iPhones and Android, including group chats,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Instagram, the popular photo sharing service his company also owns. He also highlighted other features like missing messageswhich iMessage doesn’t have.

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“Protect your personal messages across devices,” the billboard said, while poking fun at Apple’s famous blue-bubble messaging service. Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The move marked the latest in a series of escalating volleys between the tech titans, which has been building for years. Zuckerberg stepped up his attacks last week, during one of his company’s most important events of the year, discussing his plans for the metaverse. The technology, which Zuckerberg is so committed