Category: Software
The best free tools and services for college students
Whether or not you’re returning to in-person classes this fall, you’ll likely need a slew of services and software to get your classwork done, manage your time and relax after a long day of lectures. Don’t worry about adding to your ever-growing student debt in the process, though. There’s an…
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Snapchat’s messaging and calling features land on a new set of screens
Snapchat’s messaging and video chat features are no longer limited to just the mobile app. More than a decade after the Snapchat app first launched, company is introducing Snapchat for Web, a new browser-based version of its service. Snapchat+ subscribers will gain access to the new web app first, but…
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Meta’s ‘Make-A-Scene’ AI blends human and computer imagination into algorithmic art
Text-to-image generation is the hot algorithmic process right now, with OpenAI’s Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini) and Google’s Imagen AIs unleashing tidal waves of wonderfully weird procedurally generated art synthesized from human and computer imaginations. On Tuesday, Meta revealed that it too has developed an AI image generation engine, one that…
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iOS 16 beta preview: A fun, useful and promising update
The iOS 16 public beta is here, which means you can get a taste of Apple’s upcoming mobile software before its stable release. As we saw at WWDC in June, the iPhone is slated to get a whole new lock screen, edit and send options in iMessage, improved dictation, a…
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iPadOS 16 preview: Apple’s software is catching up with its hardware
When Apple put its M1 processor in the 2021 iPad Pro and iPad Air, I couldn’t help but wonder what all that power was for. The A-series chips that Apple had used in earlier models ran iPadOS extremely well, so seeing the same processor found in computers like the MacBook…
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macOS Ventura preview: Stage Manager is the star of the show
It’s rare for Apple to reshape the way people work on Macs, but that’s precisely what the company is trying to do with Stage Manager in macOS Ventura. At first glance, it’s just a quick visual way to swap between your recently used applications. But after testing the first Ventura…
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