Tag: Software
Snap Spectacles take the big leap to AR with new glasses, a new OS, and lots of gesture-controlled mixed-reality
Snapchat is taking its Spectacles game to the next level with a complete reimagining that enables augmented reality, gesture control, experience sharing, gaming, and more. On Tuesday, September 17, 2024, the social media company unveiled its beefy new 226-gram smartglasses, which look almost nothing like any Snapchat Spectacles that have…
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Snap is redesigning Snapchat and adding new AI powers
Since first introducing its generative AI assistant, Snap has been steadily ramping up the amount of AI in its app. Now, the company is adding a new slate of AI-powered features as it begins testing a larger redesign of the app. Snap often brings new AI features to its Snapchat+…
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Apple has released iOS 18 to install but is your iPhone compatible? Here are the eligible devices and new features
AppleApple Apple just released iOS 18 for all eligible iPhones to install now; you can find it in the Software Update settings. And if you’re planning to buy one of the new iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro models coming available on September 20, they’ll already have iOS 18 installed.…
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Instagram ‘teen accounts’ with parental controls will be mandatory for kids under 16
After years of scrutiny over its handling of teen safety on its platform, Meta is introducing a new type of account that will soon be required for all teens under 16 on Instagram. The new “teen accounts” add more parental supervision tools and automatically opt teens into stricter privacy settings…
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Can AI make you less gullible or is it a conspiracy?
AI chatbots may struggle with hallucinating made-up information, but new research has shown they might be useful for pushing back against unfounded and hallucinatory ideas in human minds. MIT Sloan and Cornell University scientists have published a paper in Science claiming that conversing with a chatbot powered by a large…
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This AI can turn your mundane video into a special effects spectacular
Runway’s AI video creation and editing service has added the promised video-to-video revamp feature to its Gen-3 Alpha model platform. The video-to-video tool lets you submit a video and a text prompt to alter it. The changes can adjust the setting, performers, or other elements of the video to match…
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