News Meta Unveils a New AI-Powered Music Generator Called MusicGen Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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 Macro Strategist: James Sterling 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.
