The craziest AI development I’ve seen all year is Microsoft’s VASA-1 technology. The company developed AI models that can transform a single image of a person with an audio file into a moving video of that person speaking. The demos were mindblowing, though VASA-1 isn’t available as a commercial product. It might never be, as…
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Google is widely expected to release four Pixel 9 phones this fall. The list includes the next-gen Pixel Fold, which might be called Pixel 9 Pro Fold, according to a new leak. Then, we’ll get the Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the Pixel 9 Pro XL.Google didn’t tease any of these devices at…
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Genmoji, the ability to generate custom emojis with the help of AI in iOS 18, will probably be one of the most appreciated features in Apple’s Apple Intelligence suite. However, you’ll need either an iPhone 15 Pro/Max or an iPhone 16 to get Apple Intelligence working on your device. That will be the only way…
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A new report from Bloomberg relays that Apple’s iPhone 17, set for launch in 2025, may be significantly thinner than its predecessors. The report is interesting insofar that Apple, especially since Jony Ive left the company, had somewhat abandoned its obsession with thinness. For many, this was a welcome about-face as some felt that Apple…
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Apple confirmed during the WWDC 2024 main keynote what many people had suspected: iOS 18 will bring official RCS support to the iPhone. Many Android users have wanted this feature for years, which is why Google and other rivals have been running massive ad campaigns against Apple.Apple didn’t say when it’ll enable RCS on iPhone.…
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I think it’s probably safe to say that none of our 2024 bingo cards had President Trump going on Logan Paul’s podcast and raving about how good AI is at rewriting his speeches.AI, of course, is continuing to roil pretty much every industry on the planet, in the course of which it’s threatening to rob…
Finally, a Google-owned company is stealing something worthwhile. YouTube announced today that it’s begun experimenting with its own version of Community Notes, the feature that X/Twitter pioneered whereby the user community fact-checks and brings additional context to posts.Of course, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell these YouTube notes will on the whole be unbiased,…
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I upgraded my iPhone 14 Pro when iOS 18 beta 1 came out, and I did it for the non-AI features coming to the iPhone via iOS 18. My handset isn’t good enough to support Apple Intelligence, so I’ll certainly upgrade to an iPhone 16 model this fall. AI, especially the Siri experience that Apple…
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As expected, Apple unveiled its suite of AI features coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac this year. Dubbed Apple Intelligence, Apple’s AI includes a personalized Siri AI experience, and a bunch of generative AI features that might be available already on competing platforms.Unsurprisingly, the Photos app also gets new AI features in iOS 18. Specifically,…
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The interim findings of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) investigation into Microsoft’s cloud software licensing strategy should be a significant cause for concern for the software giant, experts have warned. However, Microsoft maintains its behaviour is having no impact on its nearest competitors, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. The UK competition watchdog…
