News WhatsApp Is Working on Introducing Usernames WABetaInfo has spotted the new feature in WhatsApp's latest beta version, 2.23.11.15, for Android. As a rule, new WhatsApp features first appear in the Android app, and then are rolled out to the iOS app.
News OpenAI's New AI Model Shap-E Can Generate 3D Objects from Text Unlike conventional models, Shap-E generates the parameters of implicit functions that can be rendered as both textured meshes and neural radiance fields (NeRF). The new model can produce high-quality 3D models in a fraction of time.
News Elon Musk's Neuralink Gets FDA's Approval to Launch Its First-in-Human Clinical Study Getting FDA approval for a commercial medical device is a challenging task. In March 2023, Reuters reported that the FDA did not allow Neuralink to test their brain chip implants in humans.
News WhatsApp Now Lets Its Users Edit Messages To fix a typo or edit the already sent text in the message, all you need to do now is long-press on a sent message you want to change and choose "Edit" from the menu. The person who received the message will see that it has been edited.
News Twitter Blue Subscribers Can Now Upload Two-Hour Videos Twitter Blue subscribers, who now pay $8/month for it, are allowed to upload videos up to two hours at 1080p resolution that must have an 8GB file size or smaller. Also, longer two-hour videos can only be uploaded from the web or iOS.
News Apple Announces a Set of New Accessibility Features Ahead of the annual WWDC developer conference, the Cupertino company has announced a number of innovations designed to make it easier for people with vision, hearing, mobility, and cognitive disabilities to use the company's devices.
News Google Introduces a Competitor to GitHub Copilot Codey is based on Google's large PaLM 2 language model and has been trained on a huge set of permissively licensed open-source code as well as on the internal code of Google's own products.
News Google Will Start Deleting Inactive Accounts Later This Year Google announced an updated policy for inactive accounts. Starting this year, if an account has not been used for two years, it can be automatically deleted with all of its content, including Google Workspace data, YouTube, and Google Photos.
News Apple and Google Team Up to Tackle Unwanted Tracking Through Tracking Devices After increasing complaints from users about unwanted surveillance and concerns over devices' safety, the companies announced the development of the new technology that can combat the misuse of Bluetooth devices for location tracking.
News Microsoft Opens Its AI-Powered Bing Chatbot to All Users and Adds New Features The company has also announced a major update to its chatbot and added new features, including chat history, image and video answers, restaurant bookings, and more.
News Google Has Officially Introduced Its New Pixel Fold Smartphone The smartphone features a triple-lens rear camera with a 48MP primary camera, a 10.8MP ultra-wide, and a 10.8MP telephoto with 5x optical zoom. There's also a 9.5MP camera on the cover display, and an 8MP camera on the foldable screen.
News Google Now Lets Users Access Their Accounts with Passkeys The new technology uses your device biometrics (either your fingerprint or your face) or its pin to confirm it's you signing in. It basically allows using your device instead of a password for authentication.
News Microsoft's Phone Link App for iOS Is Now Rolling out to All Windows 11 Users iPhone owners can now sync their smartphones with the Phone Link app to make and receive calls, send and receive messages via iMessage, get notifications from their mobile devices, and view their phone contacts on their Windows 11 PC.
News WhatsApp Now Lets You Use the Same Account on Multiple Phones Each phone connects to WhatsApp independently, making sure that all calls, personal messages, media files, and other data are synced across devices and end-to-end encrypted.
News Microsoft Is Making DALL-E-Based AI Image Generator Available for All Edge Users To use the feature in Edge, simply click on the Image Creator icon in the browser's sidebar and type in what you want to see, and get your image generated within seconds. The image you create can be downloaded and used anywhere.
News Tech Brand Nothing to Release Its Own 5.1% Craft Beer Tech brand Nothing announced a collaboration with the Freetime Beer Company, a small brewery located in Swansea on the southern coastline of Wales. Together, the companies will produce a signature beer called Beer (5.1%).
News Tesla Launched the Cybertruck-Inspired Beer Called GigaBeer In terms of design, the bottle imitates Tesla's Cybertruck, and each bottle has a glow-in-the-dark Giga logo. The beer is brewed in Berlin and expresses notes of citrus, bergamot, and sweet fruit.
BigTech Meta Ends Support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook A company spokesperson said that Meta is shifting its investments away from NFTs to products such as Meta Pay, as well as other tools that allow creators to earn money directly on Meta's platforms.
News Microsoft's Notion-Like Collaborative App Loop Launched in Public Preview One of the main features of Loop is its shareable components. They allow you to turn any page into a block of content that can be pasted into Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, and other company's services.
News Adobe Launches Its New AI Image Generator Called Firefly Adobe is trying to make its tools easier to use than those of most of its competitors. Instead of entering a string of descriptors for styling, Adobe offers built-in options for art styles, lighting, and aspect ratio.
News FDA Rejects Neuralink's Request to Test Brain Chip Implants in Humans While the sources declined to give Reuters the FDA's written denial, explaining it was a confidential document, they described the features of the devices that caused the regulator's concerns.
News Apple's Dedicated Classical Music App Will Launch on March 28 Apple Music Classical will feature hundreds of curated playlists, thousands of exclusive albums, as well as editorial notes, including insightful composer biographies, deep-dive guides for key works, and more.
News Winamp Is Now Also a Streaming Service One of the main advantages of the new platform will be a relatively high level of income for musicians. In particular, creators will be able to receive an 85% share of the revenue generated from their fan subscriptions.
BigTech YouTube Will No Longer Run Overlay Ads on Desktop Starting April 6 YouTube will no longer display overlay ads atop videos that users are watching on the desktop app and web browsers, the company announced in a YouTube Help forum post. This ad format has long been unavailable on mobile devices, too.
BigTech Meta Is Testing a Paid Verification Scheme on Facebook and Instagram To sign up to become Meta Verified, users must be 18 or older and provide an official government-issued ID that matches the profile name and photo they have on Facebook or Instagram.
