Tag: Software
Marvel Snap, CapCut, Lemon8 and other ByteDance apps have also shut down in the US alongside TikTok
It’s been unclear in the leadup to the TikTok ban what the fate of parent company ByteDance’s other apps would be, but now we know: they’ve gone dark in the US too. At the same time TikTok went offline this weekend, so did other apps ByteDance has developed or is…
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Amazon thinks AI helping you buy clothes is better than you sending back whatever doesn’t fit
Amazon’s replacing ‘Try Before You Buy’ with a ‘Virtual Try-On.’ Swapping a physical try-on for a digital one is becoming somewhat of a theme in online retail. Virtual Try-On joins other features like AI-powered size recommendations. Amazon would rather you try clothes on virtually instead of testing their fits at…
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ChatGPT is the homework helper for more than a quarter of teens – and the trend is accelerating
ChatGPT’s use in schoolwork doubled in a year to 26% among U.S. teens A majority of teens think using ChatGPT for research is fine Far fewer support using ChatGPT to write essays or solve math problems I’m old enough to remember when teachers said we couldn’t use a calculator in…
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Hinge’s AI can help make your dating profile shine – and maybe win at the game of love
Hinge is employing AI to help with prompts It won’t write them for you There are different levels of guidance If the thought of crafting the perfect dating profile fills you with dread, Hinge has an AI solution. The popular dating app has rolled out a new feature called Prompt…
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This AI video generator can make a banana typing look realistic – and might challenge Sora
Luma Labs has released the new Ray 2 AI video generator Ray 2 turns text prompts into high-quality 5–10 second videos Ray 2 is available through the Dream Machine platform Luma Labs has premiered a powerful, new AI model for generating videos on its Dream Machine platform called Ray 2.…
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MoviePass made a film trailer app for the Oculus Quest and Apple Vision Pro
If you’re a cinephile who misses the old Apple TV app for movie trailers, MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes knows your pain. So he decided to build a trailer app of his own, one that could easily help viewers keep track of upcoming films. But the MoviePass Screening Room isn’t heading…
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