Tag: Software
Is AI bad for music or is it just another step in the auto-tune timeline?
Music has always had a love-hate relationship with technology. Every time a new tool shows up, there are some who are concerned that it will be the end of real music. The same questions arose when the synthesizer appeared, when the drum machine became popular, and any time auto-tune is…
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Opera Mini stuffs a whole AI assistant into a tiny Android browser
Opera has added its AI assistant Aria to the Opera Mini browser for Android Users can access real-time information, summarize text, and generate images in the lightweight Android browser The Opera Mini version of Aria is optimized for low data usage and older devices Opera is giving a major AI…
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Star Wars Celebration is in full swing, and Lucasfilm just dropped more details on its Beyond Victory experience for Meta Quest, and I couldn’t be more stoked
If you’re a Star Wars fan and haven’t been jealous of not being at Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan as of yet, prepare to be. The same applies if you have an Apple Vision Pro instead of a Meta Quest. Why? Well, Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm are…
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You don’t have to pay for Google Gemini to comment on what you’re looking at on your phone anymore
Google has made Gemini Live’s screen and camera sharing features free for all Android users. The release reverses the previous subscriber-only option. The feature lets Gemini respond to real-time visual input from your screen or camera. In a surprise twist and a reversal of its earlier paywalled plans, Google has…
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You can’t hide from ChatGPT – new viral AI challenge can geo-locate you from almost any photo – we tried it and it’s wild and worrisome
OpenAI’s latest reasoning model o3 can analyze photos It’s particularly good at geo-locating based on image clues It may be too good a tool for letting people geolocate your activities It’s no secret that digital photo metadata contains everything from technical info about the camera that shot it to, based…
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I fed NotebookLM a 218-page research paper on string theory and the podcast results were mind-blowing
My latest NotebookLM podcast creation is deeper and more fascinating than anything I’ve ever created, and I bet it’ll shock you, too. I don’t understand string theory. In fact, I bet there’s fewer than 1% of the world that can speak cogently on the subject, but I am fascinated by…
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