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Google Play Store is testing the app preview feature for different types of devices: smartphones, Chromebooks, and TVs. By selecting a device in the new menu, users can preview how the app will look before downloading it and get additional information such as the size of the downloaded file, the number of downloads, and the […]
After the announcement in June, Telegram also got its own version of Stories. You can use two cameras at once when recording a photo or video for temporary posts, and you can also choose a Stories “shelf life” of 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours. There is support for subtitles and detailed control over privacy […]
Microsoft has added a visual search function to its AI-powered Bing chatbot. The function is based on the large multimodal GPT-4 model by OpenAI. It can recognize objects, interpret content, and search the image content. To use visual search, you need to switch to chat mode, upload an image, enter a query, and click the […]
Wix has introduced AI Site Generator, a tool that will allow you to generate a website template using artificial intelligence based on text prompts. AI Site Generator uses a combination of ChatGPT and proprietary tools. ChatGPT is designed to create text, and its own artificial intelligence models will do the rest. To generate a website, […]
Speeding up playback is common for most content on YouTube, especially podcasts, and Google is making it easier to double the speed of videos with a new gesture. On mobile devices, you can currently adjust the playback speed by tapping on the video window to display the controls and tapping on the settings gear in […]
The new Threads app has reached 20% of Twitter’s weekly audience worldwide and 86 times the active user base of Truth Social, Twitter’s main competitor in the US, TechCrunch reports. Sensor Tower, an application analysis company, also analyzed a slight drop in Threads’ popularity. The number of daily active Threads users decreased by 20% on […]
On July 12, Google product manager Joseph Mills announced that Google has updated its mobile software market policy to allow developers to integrate digital assets such as NFTs into their games through the Play app store, TechCrunch reports. The updated policy requires applications to be transparent to users about the use of tokenized digital assets, […]
Google has launched Bard, an artificial intelligence assistant in more than 40 languages, including Ukrainian, Arabic, Chinese, German, and Spanish. In Bard, you can ask questions and listen to the answers by voice, customize the answers – change the tone and style to five different options: simple, long, short, professional, or normal. The assistant also […]
The iOS 17 firmware, which will be publicly released in the fall, brings many useful features. For example, it will tell you what a particular light on your car’s dashboard means. It will also help you figure out what mode to use to wash your clothes and how to iron them. It also allows you […]
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has launched Tongyi Wanxiang, an artificial intelligence tool capable of generating images based on textual prompts. Tongyi Wanxiang allows you to enter prompts in Chinese and English, and artificial intelligence generates images in different styles. “With the release of Tongyi Wanxiang, high-quality generative AI images will become more accessible, which will […]