BigTech Meta Is Testing a Paid Verification Scheme on Facebook and Instagram Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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.
News Apple Unveiled New iPhone 14 and 14 Plus in Yellow Macro Strategist: James Sterling Both iPhone versions will still feature a lightweight design, a durable Ceramic Shield front cover, a dual-camera system for pro-level photos and videos, the powerful A15 Bionic chip, and innovative safety capabilities.
News Google's Magic Eraser Feature Is Coming to iPhones and More Androids Macro Strategist: James Sterling The Magic Eraser feature will now be available on the Google Photos app to all Google One subscribers on both iOS and Android devices. All Pixel smartphone owners will have access to the feature without having to sign up for a paid Google One subscription.
News New AI Tool Scribble Diffusion Can Turn Your Sketches into Art Macro Strategist: James Sterling Scribble Diffusion is designed to convert hand-drawn sketches, along with a text prompt, into beautiful art pieces. For the AI to understand exactly what you have drawn, it is important to specify at least a few descriptive words.
News WhatsApp Is Working on a Newsletter Feature Macro Strategist: James Sterling The references to the feature have been spotted in beta version 2.23.5.3 of the app for Android devices. It should be noted that the feature is currently in the early stages of development and is slated to ship in the app's future update.
News YouTube Launches a New Revenue Sharing Model for Shorts Macro Strategist: James Sterling YouTube has announced that from February 1, 2023, the platform will expand its content monetization options. Users who publish Shorts videos will now be able to monetize their content.
News Microsoft Permanently Disables Internet Explorer on Windows 10 Macro Strategist: James Sterling Microsoft released an update to Microsoft's Edge browser on February 14, which permanently disabled the Internet Explorer browser in some versions of Windows 10. The company officially discontinued Internet Explorer last June.
News Google to Blur Explicit Images in Search Results by Default Macro Strategist: James Sterling SafeSearch will soon become the default setting for all users, even if they don't have the SafeSearch filtering technology turned on. Before this change, the filter was already enabled by default for signed-in users under 18.
News Google's New AI Model Can Generate Music from Text Descriptions Macro Strategist: James Sterling Google has unveiled MusicLM, an artificial intelligence system that can generate high-fidelity music of any genre from text descriptions given by users. However, Google has no plans to make the neural network publicly available yet.
News Wikipedia Gets a New Look for the First Time in a Decade Macro Strategist: James Sterling The updated desktop interface prioritizes usability and modernizes the Wikipedia experience to make it more welcoming and easier to use and explore for everyone. The changes are not radical, and no existing functionality was removed.
News Apple Unveiled New MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips Macro Strategist: James Sterling The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro starts at $1,999, while the 16-inch model starts at $2,499. Both laptops powered by the new processors are already available for pre-order and will start shipping on January 24.
News Xiaomi Taught Its Humanoid Robot CyberOne to Play Drums Macro Strategist: James Sterling A short video shows CyberOne sitting at a drum kit and playing drums. The robot can accurately coordinate various intricate movements like tapping the cymbals, using a set of four drums, slapping the drumsticks together, and using the foot pedal.
News Instagram Debuts Notes, Tests Group Profiles and Candid Stories Macro Strategist: James Sterling Instagram is launching and testing new features designed to connect its users with the people and groups they care about and encourage interactions between friends on the app through Notes, Group Profiles, and Candid Stories.
News Quantum Computers Are Now Being Sold in Japan Macro Strategist: James Sterling The series includes three devices: Gemini, Gemini Mini, and Triangulum. The company claims that these PCs are the first quantum computers on the market available to the general consumer.
News Apple Music Is Adding a Karaoke Mode Macro Strategist: James Sterling All Apple Music subscribers worldwide have access to the new feature. Karaoke mode allows users to sing along to their favorite songs by following their lyrics in real time, as well as adjust the voice levels.
News OpenAI Released a New Tool Called Point-E That Generates 3D Models Macro Strategist: James Sterling OpenAI specialists have trained the models on a dataset of "several million" 3D objects and related metadata. The company admits that Point-E is less advanced than other similar technologies, but it allows to obtain results much faster.
News WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Messages to Yourself Macro Strategist: James Sterling To see if you have the new feature, start a new chat, and see if your contact is showing up at the top of your contacts list. Once you click on that, you'll be able to save some notes, files, links, reminders, or anything else you need to remember.
News Epic Games Released an App That Turns Real-World Objects into 3D Models Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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.
