Category: author_name|Kris Holt
Slack adds name pronunciation features to user profiles
Slack is rolling out a few new features for profiles, including ways to help folks avoid the embarrassment and unpleasantness of mispronouncing a colleague’s name. Starting today, users can add an audio clip of them stating their name. You can include the phonetic pronunciation on your profile too. Slack Profiles…
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Google Pixel 7 prototype reputedly shows up on eBay
It seems Google just can’t stop its upcoming hardware from showing up in the wild. Weeks after a Pixel Watch prototype was left at a restaurant (and before Google confirmed the device’s existence), it appears someone tried to sell a Pixel 7 on eBay. The eBay listing for what certainly…
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Google claims its text-to-image AI delivers ‘unprecedented photorealism’
Google has shown off an artificial intelligence system that can create images based on text input. The idea is that users can enter any descriptive text and the AI will turn that into an image. The company says the Imagen diffusion model, created by the Brain Team at Google Research,…
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TikTok nudges users to credit the videos that inspired their posts
TikTok is rolling out a feature that will make it easier for users to give appropriate credit to a creator who inspired one of their videos. A new button that's rolling out over the next few weeks will allow you to tag, mention and credit a video in the description.…
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A Dead by Daylight dating sim will arrive this summer
Behaviour Interactive has shed some light on what's ahead for its massively popular horror franchise Dead by Daylight. One of the more surprising announcements was for a spinoff game that will take the horror-heavy series in a completely new direction — it's a dating sim. I Love You, Colonel Sanders!…
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IK Multimedia’s latest mobile audio interface is designed for field recording
IK Multimedia has revealed its latest mobile audio interface, a field recorder called iRig Pro Quattro I/O. The device has 24-bit, 96kHz conversion and four microphone and instrument preamps, along with line-in ports. You'll also get two balanced XLR outputs, 3.5mm stereo and headphone ports and MIDI in/out. There's a…
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