I was fed up with creative blocks, and I found the perfect app to help me do something about it

Creative blocks. Real or imagined? Having worked in creative industries for the past 20 years, I can relate to days and even weeks where it feels like there’s a blockage. At times, ideas flow, and turning them into meaningful creations seems as natural as a bee making honey. At other times, I seem to get … Read more

Blueprinting extendable nanomaterials with standardized protein blocks

Natural and previously designed proteins exhibit a wide range of helical geometries with local irregularities, kinks and deviations from linearity16 that make it difficult to achieve the properties illustrated in Fig. 1 that enable simple nanomaterial scaling (beyond the one dimension accessed by varying the number of repeats in a repeat protein or coiled coil). … Read more

Microsoft’s Copilot now blocks some prompts that generated violent and sexual images

appears to have blocked several prompts in its tool that led the generative AI tool to spit out violent, sexual and other illicit images. The changes seem to have been implemented just after an engineer at the company to lay out severe concerns he had with Microsoft’s GAI tech. When entering terms such as “pro … Read more