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YouTube wants content creators to label content that has been altered. With a rise in the use of generative AI, the video sharing site wants it to be clear when someone has taken real images or videos of people or places and changed appearances or mimicked their voice. Examples they listed were: "Using the likeness of a realistic person: Digitally altering content to replace the face of one individual with another’s or synthetically generating a person’s voice to narrate a video; Altering footage of real events or places: Such as making it appear as if a real building caught fire, or altering ...
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Microsoft Copilot can now help you create designs, plan a next vacation, learn to cook, or create a custom workout plan. Jordi Ribas, CVP, Head of Engineering and Product for Copilot and Bing, has revealed the tech giant has rolled out new customisations of their Microsoft Copilot, powered by GPT-4, a language model developed by OpenAI, that will assist the user in various tasks. Soon, users will even be able to create their own GPTs. Ribas posted to X/Twitter: "We've rolled out a few Copilot GPTs in Microsoft Copilot. They can help create designs, plan your next vacation, learn to cook a new ...
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Google Pay is set to close down in the US this year. The tech giant has announced that its mobile payment service will be no more from June 4, 2024, in order to "simplify their payments system". It will remain in Singapore and India only due to the "unique needs in those countries". Google Wallet has become more dominant than Google Pay. In a new blog post, Google said: "Google Wallet continues to be the primary place for people to securely store payment cards used for tap and pay in stores, alongside other digital items like transit cards, driver’s licenses, state IDs and more. To simplify th...
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Apple has tightened iMessage's security to prevent future quantum computing hacking. The PQ3 protocol is a brand new defence algorithm built by the tech giant to keep sensitive and critical data protected. Apple wrote in a new blog post: “More than simply replacing an existing algorithm with a new one, we rebuilt the iMessage cryptographic protocol from the ground up. “It will fully replace the existing protocol within all supported conversations this year.” It works by generating encryption keys for an iMessage text, which is sent to Apple's servers, where a fresh key is made so that locks ha...
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Apple Vision Pro users no longer have to visit a physical Apple Store to get their passcode reset. The pricey immersive headset - which costs $3,500 and is currently only available in the US - needed the owner to get one of the Apple Gurus to reset their device if they had forgotten their passcode. However, Monday's (12.02.24) first update, visionOS 1.0.3, it's now possible to do it yourself. Apple said: “This update provides important bug fixes and adds an option to reset your device if you’ve forgotten your passcode.” Meanwhile, Google recently confirmed a YouTube app for the headset is "on ...
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Samsung Galaxy Smartwatches will be able to detect sleep apnea in the US. The tech giant has just been granted approval for the health tool by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Although, it's not to be used in the place of a doctor's diagnosis, and requires users to be 22 or older, it will show the user's sleep quality to and pick up on the signs of sleep apnea, a condition in which people stop breathing for 10 seconds or more multiple times per night. The roll out will be with the device's software update in Q3 2024 and will be for limited models. A study recently found that sleep ...
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ChatGPT is now available on the Apple Vision Pro. Since its launch on February 2, the immersive headset has slowly been getting more apps, and now OpenAI's chatbot has entered the equation. ChatGPT announced alongside a demonstration GIF on X/Twitter: "chat has now entered the 3D world. you can find it in the visionOS App Store. (sic)" This means users will be able to use the ChatGPT Voice instead of typing. The new addition comes after Google confirmed a YouTube app is "on our roadmap". This is a massive U-turn, as just a few weeks ago, it was claimed that YouTube and Spotify had no plans to ...
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Nokia has inked a multi-year 5G patent license agreement with Chinese smartphone maker Vivo. The latest deal follows the Finnish telecommunications giant's other licensing agreements with the likes of Apple, Samsung, OPPO, Honor, and Huawei. Nokia said: "The agreement resolves all pending patent litigation between the parties, in all jurisdictions. The terms of the agreement remain confidential as agreed between the parties." It added: "Nokia has now almost completed its smartphone license renewal cycle." Towards the end of last year, Nokia said it was planning to axe 14,000 jobs to cut ongoin...
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Netflix fears a rise in the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by its competitors will "adversely" impact its business. Whilst it is still early days for the technology that can produce content such as audio, text, code, video, images, and other data, the streaming giant is already concerned with its impact on the industry. In its annual report for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Netflix said: “New technological developments, including the development and use of generative artificial intelligence, are rapidly evolving. If our competitors gain an advantage by using such ...
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Apple has begun reimbursing iPhone users in the US after it was sued for slowing down devices. The tech giant was forced to fork out a whopping $500 million (£394m) settlement after it was found to have made older devices batteries slower. Apple profusely denied the claim but agreed to the payout. Across the pond, in the UK, Apple could end up paying a further £1.6 billion in compensation. Consumer rights champion, Justin Gutmann filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal accusing Apple of intentionally hiding a power management tool in software updates, a process called throttling. Mr...
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