News Epic Games Released an App That Turns Real-World Objects into 3D Models To create a 3D model, one should take at least 20 photos of the object from different angles. The more photos with good lighting you take, the better the final 3D model will turn out. It is also important that the photos are taken against a neutral background.
News Niantic Unveiled a Prototype of a New AR Headset Powered by Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 One of the main innovations is the multiplayer mode of operation. It is based on a visual positioning system that allows a virtual object to be linked to a real location so that several people wearing AR glasses see it in the same place at once.
News Neuralink Co-Founder Unveils an Advanced Visual Prosthesis for Patients with Blindness The device, called Science Eye, is designed for people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), two forms of severe vision loss. According to the company, patients with these diseases have no good treatment options right now.
News Japan to Generate Electricity from Snow Snow energy is expected to be generated at a low cost. The proposed solution with snow has virtually no waste, whereas solar panels sometimes have to be recycled. And the use of snow to generate electricity is much more environmentally friendly, too.
News Apple Completely Redesigned iCloud Web Interface With the new widget-inspired redesign, you can customize your iCloud.com homepage, adding tiles that can show your most recent emails, notes, photos, documents, calendar events, and more.
News Intel Introduced a Real-Time Deepfake Detector With 96% Accuracy As part of its Responsible AI Initiative, semiconductor chip manufacturer Intel has introduced a new technology dubbed FakeCatcher that identifies deepfakes with high levels of accuracy in real-time.
News NVIDIA Teams Up With Microsoft to Build a New AI Supercomputer The computer will be based on Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure combined with tens of thousands of high-end NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPUs, Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform for data processing, and NVIDIA's AI Enterprise platform.
News LG Introduces a New Display That Can Be Stretched, Folded and Twisted According to the company, it is the industry's first full-color RGB display with a pixel density of 100ppi that can be stretched by almost 20 percent – up to 14 inches – without losing its properties.
News Signal Secure Messenger Is Rolling Out an Instagram-Like Stories Feature You can share your stories with everyone on your phone's contact list who uses the app, anybody you've had a one-on-one conversation with, or anyone whose message request you've accepted.
News Apple to Drop 'Hey' From the 'Hey Siri' Trigger Phrase The tech giant has been working on this for months, and is expected to release the change next year or the year after, if all goes according to plan. As Mark Gurman noted, the change requires a significant amount of AI training and underlying engineering work.
News Netflix Finally Launches Its Ad-Supported Plan for $6.99 per Month Users of the "basic" subscription will see an average of 4 to 5 minutes of ads per hour – before and during shows or films. Each ad insert will be 15-30 seconds long with no ability to skip or fast-forward through them.
News WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Its New Communities Feature Globally To start using this feature, you need to open the new Communities tab, which can be found at the top of your chats on Android or at the bottom on iOS. Here you can both create a new Community and add existing groups to a new Community.
BigTech Google Acquires AI Avatar Startup Alter for $100 Million TechCrunch reported that Google paid about $100 million to acquire Alter. The acquisition took place about two months ago without a public announcement, but the tech giant has already confirmed the purchase.
News Elon Musk Released a Perfume That Smells Like Burnt Hair The release of the perfume is related to a post the billionaire jokingly posted on Twitter back in late September. Musk announced plans to release a fragrance for men called Burnt Hair, which would help men "stand out in a crowd."
News Kanye West to Buy Controversial Social Media App Parler Parler was created in 2018 as an alternative to Twitter, but with a "softer" post moderation policy that appealed to the American right and Trump supporters often blocked on other major social media platforms.
News NVIDIA Unveils a New AI Model That Can Quickly Generate 3D Objects NVIDIA engineers trained the AI using synthetic 2D images of three-dimensional objects made from different angles. It took just two days to feed a million sample images into GET3D using A100 Tensor Core GPUs.
News WhatsApp Introduced a Premium Subscription Plan for Business Users According to WABetaInfo, the messaging platform has started testing the subscription plan for certain business users with the latest beta update on iOS and Android via TestFlight and the Play Store.
News Apple Could Bring USB-C to Mac Accessories and AirPods by 2024 Apple might bring USB-C to the next-gen AirPods, AirPods Max, and AirPods Pro by 2024. At the same time, Mac accessories, such as Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse, and Magic Keyboard, could switch to USB-C as early as next year.
BigTech Meta Now Lets Users Share Their NFTs on Both Facebook and Instagram In May, Meta announced that it would test the NFT sharing feature on a small number of users in the US. Now the company has officially introduced the option to all of its social media users from the United States.
News Twitter Is Rolling Out Its Edit Button for Twitter Blue Subscribers From now on, these users can edit the content of a tweet after it has been published, which means that they will no longer have to delete and publish the tweet again in case they make a mistake or a typo.
News Meta's New AI Can Generate Short Videos From Text Prompts The model analyses a text query and outputs 16 frames of video at a resolution of 64 by 64 pixels which are then boosted using a separate AI model to 768 by 768 pixels. Despite these limitations, Meta says that the resulting videos will become much better in the future.
News Google Expands Eco-Friendly Routing Across European Countries Last year, this feature was available for residents of the United States and Canada, offering routes with the least energy consumption. Eco-friendly routing is now available across most European countries.
News TikTok Users Can Now Downvote Comments After testing it for several months, TikTok has officially introduced the new downvote button that will let users easily flag irrelevant or inappropriate comments.
News YouTube to Launch an Ad-Free Video Player for Education It was created specifically for educational organizations that often use YouTube as a platform for learning. Educational institutions will now be able to embed videos on websites without distracting students from the online learning experience.
News Steve Jobs' Family Has Launched a Digital Archive in His Memory Friends and family of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, have launched an online archive dedicated to his legacy. This digital archive will serve as a repository of historical materials relating to Jobs, some of which have never been published before.
