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.
News WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Messages to Yourself 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 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.
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."
