Month: July 2024
New Pixel Watch 3 leak shows off ‘Advanced’ health features and watch face improvements
Following leaked information on its wristband options, promotional material for the Pixel Watch 3 has surfaced online, revealing several key features. Chief among them are multiple display improvements, such as thinner bezels. According to the images obtained by Android Headlines, one of the models will offer “10 percent more screen…
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Meta blames hallucinations after its AI said Trump rally shooting didn’t happen
Meta’s AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn’t happen, an error a company executive is now attributing to the technology powering its chatbot and others. In a company blog post published on Tuesday, Joel Kaplan, Meta’s global head of policy, calls its…
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Ring camera features are down due to AWS problems
On Monday evening, Amazon Web Services sent a notice about issues in the US-EAST-1 region of its server networks, which support many of the internet’s services. So far, the only problem we’ve seen that appears to be linked to the problem is an outage affecting Amazon-owned Ring, with owners of…
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Meta’s new AI model tags and tracks every object in your videos
Meta has a new AI model that can label and follow any object in a video as it moves around. The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) extends the capabilities of its predecessor, SAM, which was limited to images, opening up new opportunities for video editing and analysis. SAM 2’s…
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Amazon must recall dangerous products properly — even ones sold by third-parties
Amazon, not third-party sellers, is responsible for properly recalling hazardous items that were sold on its marketplace, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) decided on Tuesday. The CPSC says Amazon failed to adequately notify the public about more than 400,000 recalled products. Even though Amazon stopped selling those products…
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Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots
The shutdown follows Meta’s Monday rollout of AI Studio, a tool that lets creators in the US make AI chatbots of themselves. Based on a statement, the company seems to be favoring this direction rather than the more handcrafted celebrity bots. “You can no longer interact with AI characters embodied…
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