Nigel Powell is an author, columnist, and consultant with over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He produced the weekly Don't Panic technology column in the Sunday Times newspaper for 16 years and is the author of the Sunday Times book of Computer Answers, published by Harper Collins. He has been a technology pundit on Sky Television's Global Village program and a regular contributor to BBC Radio Five's Men's Hour.
He has an Honours degree in law (LLB) and a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), and his work has made him an expert in all things software, AI, security, privacy, mobile, and other tech innovations. Nigel currently lives in West London and enjoys spending time meditating and listening to music.
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Editor's ChoiceLeonardo is a powerful AI image generator capable of creating graphics, textures and photorealistic pictures from text.

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Editor's ChoiceRunway is the leading AI video generator, offering lip-synching, image-to-video, text-to-video and realistic human motion.

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Editor's ChoiceClaude 3.5 Sonnet is one of the most impressive AI language models and Claude is a powerful chatbot platform.

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Artificial intelligence is a rapidly evolving area of technology and with it comes some confusing terms. We've tried to make sense of everything from LLM to tokens.

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Nokia is providing AI-powered drones to keep an eye on people living in Switzerland.

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Editor's ChoiceUdio is one of the best AI music generators on the market and is getting better with new, regular updates.

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Google DeepMind is investing in its Gemma family of open-source models including create small but mighty options.

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Pinokio lets you run chatbots, image generators and music AI on your laptop at the click of a button.
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LivePortrait is a new AI model that can take any video or webcam feed and use it to animate a portrait photo or drawing.

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Websim is a hidden gem in the AI space. Its a virtual internet where you can use Claude or GPT-4o to create web apps and projects.
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Hume has launched a new iPhone app to bring its 'emotional' AI chatbot to your personal device, letting you talk while it tries to understand your emotional state.

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ElevenLabs launches a new API and demo aimed at adding sound to silent AI video generations.

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AI is going to change how we live, work and rest over the next decade. In many ways it is already having a significant impact but here are the areas we'll see the biggest change.

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Ashton Kutcher has beta access to OpenAI Sora and says its already good enough for use in mainstream movies and will one day allow anyone to create their own films.

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Google unveiled a raft of generative AI models and product updates at I/O. Among them were new features for ImageFX, MusicFX and a new VideoFX.

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AI healthcare will help us live longer and healthier lives as a result of the ever growing amount of data held on each of us.

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Udio has made significant upgrades to its AI music platform including longer songs and improved consistency.

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Here's what happens when the two leading lyric-based AI music generators are put to the test in a 7-round battle.
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OpenAI's Sora has rocked the filmmaking world and could be coming to Adobe Premiere Pro. This will change the way movies are made forever.

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Adobe has updated its popular Express app to include a number of new generative AI features and the Firefly AI model.
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