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.
News Apple Unveiled New iPhone 14 and 14 Plus in Yellow 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
