News Intel Labs Unveils a New AI Model That Generates 360-Degree Images From Text Prompts This breakthrough technology has diverse applications, from entertainment and gaming to architecture and design. It can revolutionize content creation, metaverse experiences, and digital interactions across multiple industries.
News EU Regulators to Investigate Adobe's Figma Acquisition The EU Commission plans to initiate a phase II investigation, which involves a more extensive analysis, including gathering internal documents from companies involved and collecting economic data.
News Twitter Employees Sue the Company Over Unpaid Bonuses The class-action suit accuses Twitter executives, including former CFO Ned Segal, of repeatedly promising employees that they would receive 50% of their 2022 bonuses.
News Apple Seeks Trademark Rights to Pictures of Apples Fruit Union Suisse, a 111-year-old fruit farming organization and the largest in the country, is facing potential logo changes due to Apple's attempts to gain intellectual property rights over apple depictions.
News YouTube Stories Are Shutting Down As an alternative to Stories, YouTube suggests using Community posts and Shorts. YouTube's decision to remove Stories reflects the growing popularity of short-form video content, particularly influenced by the rise of TikTok.
News Meta Unveils a New AI-Powered Music Generator Called MusicGen Meta trained MusicGen on 20,000 hours of music, including 10,000 high-quality licensed tracks and 390,000 instrumental-only tracks from media libraries such as ShutterStock and Pond5.
News Google Assistant and Calendar Reminders Will Automatically Migrate to Tasks In September 2022, Google announced its plan to consolidate reminders by migrating them to Google Tasks. This aims to provide users with a unified experience for managing their to-do lists across various Google platforms.
News Microsoft Is Testing a Dark Mode for Its Paint App on Windows 11 Visually, one of the main changes is the introduction of dark mode support. By default, the editor's appearance will adjust according to the system settings, but users will have the option to customize the theme color separately.
News Microsoft to End Support for Cortana on Windows Later This Year Microsoft has decided to end support for its voice assistant Cortana on Windows, saying it no longer fits the company's artificial intelligence strategy. Cortana will be replaced by Windows Copilot, which will live in the sidebar of Windows 11.
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%).
