Last March, OpenAI abruptly pulled the plug on its Sora video application. Two months later, two AI video generation apps are vying for the top spot in the App Store. Sora wasn’t the only AI video generation technology OpenAI abandoned Sora largely due to the cost of running the AI video generation service. The service was resource intensive and free for users. Instead, OpenAI focuses on ChatGPT and Codex to improve productivity. Codex in particular works best with paid plans. With Sora out of the way, competing AI applications have pushed video generation capabilities to the fore. For example, Gemini…
Author: Alexander Price
Yaroslav Bushuev/Getty Images I admit that much of my motivation for writing this explainer is selfish. As someone who has used and reviewed technology for decades, USB color coding is one of those anecdotal items that has entered and exited my consciousness several times over the years, but never found enough purchase to really stick. It’s not something that comes down to knowing what type of USB port you have. We hope that a dedicated article explaining why most USB-A ports are color-coded and why most USB-C ports are not…