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A new breed of online ad allows brands to pay Google to offer shoppers AI-generated images that show how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types.
Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It’s a test of how the company’s biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.
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Get ready for yet another streaming bundle: Comcast is launching a new $15 per month subscription that combines Netflix, Apple TV Plus, and Peacock. The “StreamSaver” bundle will be available to Xfinity Internet and TV customers on May 29th — and it offers monthly savings of around $8.
If you do subscribe, expect to sit through some commercials, as the bundle includes Netflix’s ad-supported plan ($6.99 / month), Peacock’s ad-supported Premium plan ($5.99 /...
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With only a month until release day, there’s a new story trailer for Shadow of the Erdtree, and the Elden Ring lore hounds have their work cut out for them.
FromSoftware has been slowly teasing Shadow of the Erdtree and its story beats ever since the gameplay trailer was released back in February. All we knew then was the DLC would take place in the Land of Shadow and feature a bunch of new horrors straight from the slightly warped imagination of game director...
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Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically. Instead of Copilot sitting idle waiting for queries, it will be able to do things like monitor email inboxes and automate a series of tasks or data entry that employees normally have to do manually.
It’s a big change in the behavior of Copilot in what the industry commonly calls AI agents, or the ability for chatbots...
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Microsoft announced a new version of its small language model, Phi-3, which can look at images and tell you what’s in them.
Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model — aka it can read both text and images — and is best used on mobile devices. Microsoft says Phi-3-vision, now available on preview, is a 4.2 billion parameter model (parameters refer to how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands) that can do general visual reasoning tasks...
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Microsoft Edge will soon offer real-time video translation on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more. As part of this year’s Build event, Microsoft announced that the new AI-powered feature will be able to translate spoken content through both dubbing and subtitles live as you’re watching it.
So far, the feature supports the translation of Spanish into English as well as the translation of English to German, Hindi, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. In...
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Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Teams communications platform that enables users to upload their own custom emoji to use in reactions and messages. Announced during its Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft says the new custom emoji will be available to try next month via the Teams public preview, with the goal of helping Teams users collaborate and express themselves “more creatively and...
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Expect a bunch of new developer tools to go along with Microsoft’s fresh Copilot Plus PCs announcement.
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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop could be the most impressive laptop the company has ever made. It has a modern chassis with thin display bezels and a new Arm-based CPU that might just give Apple laptops a run for their money when it comes to performance. That’s no mean feat, considering Apple’s striking lead since 2020, but we won’t know how it compares until we get a Surface Laptop in hand. That didn’t stop me from diving deep on their specs to see how they...
The Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows in a transparent shell; most if not all units will be black. | Image: Qualcomm
Excited for an era of long-lasting powerful Windows laptops with Arm chips and 45 TOPS for AI but would rather pay less and plug into the wall? Qualcomm has just revealed a Mac Mini-esque box that’s ostensibly just for developers.
The new $899.99 “Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows” houses the most powerful of Qualcomm’s lineup of Snapdragon X Elite chips — the one...
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The Cowboys aren’t just bad these days, they’re inconsequential.
The mystique of the Dallas Cowboys is dead. Heck, unless you’re an old like some of us (myself included), you don’t ever remember the Cowboys being great — just overhyped. It’s gotten so bad that the once-proud denizens of the gridiron, America’s Team, are being totally lapped in success by the likes of the Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Texas Rangers, and Dallas Wings, all...
The injured person in the alleged May 6 assault at a Dallas nightclub in which Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was reportedly a suspect has asked police not to file charges, according to police.
The full-frame Cinema Camera 6K is seeing a rare $1,000 price cut, bringing it down to just $1,575 for the camera body.
What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.
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Uber and Lyft will continue operating in Minneapolis after the state legislature approved a lower minimum pay rate for drivers over the weekend, according to reports from the Minnesota Reformer and StarTribune. The new rates will go into effect on January 1st, 2025, if the bill becomes law, and will guarantee drivers at least $1.28 per mile and 31 cents per minute.
In March, Uber and Lyft threatened to leave Minneapolis after city officials...
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If you can, play Hellblade II with headphones to fully experience the depth of the game’s unique storytelling.
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The East Bay Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant on March 20th, 2024, in Oakland, California. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
The Environmental Protection Agency is ramping up its inspections of critical water infrastructure after warning of “alarming vulnerabilities” to cyberattacks.
The agency issued an enforcement alert yesterday warning utilities to take quick action to mitigate threats to the nation’s drinking water. The EPA plans to increase...
Xander Schauffele poses with the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2024 PGA Championship. | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images
The PGA Championship produced thrilling drama, which led to an increase of television ratings across the board.
Like Xander Schauffele, CBS Sports and ESPN scored significant victories at the PGA Championship this past week.
During Sunday’s final round, which saw Schauffele fend off a furious charge from Bryson DeChambeau, CBS averaged 4.958 million...