Tag: Software
Meta Quest’s software is coming to new Asus ROG and Lenovo headsets
It’s a big day for Quest users. Meta has announced it’s giving third-party companies open access to its headsets’ operating system to expand the technology. The tech giant wants developers to take the OS, expand into other frontiers, and accomplish two main goals: give consumers more choice in the virtual…
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Google’s Gemini AI app could soon let you sync and control your favorite music streaming service
Google‘s latest AI experiment, Gemini, is about to get a whole lot more useful thanks to support for third-party music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. This new development was apparently found in Gemini’s settings, and users will be able to pick their preferred streaming service to use within…
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OpenAI’s new Sora video is an FPV drone ride through the strangest TED Talk you’ve ever seen – and I need to lie down
OpenAI‘s new Sora text-to-video generation tool won’t be publicly available until later this year, but in the meantime it’s serving up some tantalizing glimpses of what it can do – including a mind-bending new video (below) showing what TED Talks might look like in 40 years. To create the FPV…
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Google might have a new AI-powered password-generating trick up its sleeve – but can Gemini keep your secrets safe?
If you’ve been using Google Chrome for the past few years, you may have noticed that whenever you’ve had to think up a new password, or change your existing one, for a site or app, a little “Suggest strong password” dialog box would pop up – and it looks like…
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Windows 11 on ARM gets a major browser – another hint of Microsoft’s big plans for AI PCs
Vivaldi has produced a native version of its popular browser for Arm-based PCs, those who run Windows 11 on Arm will doubtless be pleased to hear. As is usual for a first step, the initial incarnation of Vivaldi for Arm silicon is in preview, and there are some caveats attached.…
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A key Apple app is rumored to be getting a major upgrade in macOS 15
We’re set to hear much more about what’s coming with macOS 15 when Apple‘s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) gets underway on June 10 – and one app in particular is rumored to be getting a major upgrade. That app is the Calculator app, and while it perhaps isn’t the…
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