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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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The first piloted flying taxi could take off in the UK in 2026. The Department for Transport has unveiled its Future of Flight Action Plan that predicts that by 2030 they will have taxis flying above the ground without pilots. It also anticipates that drone technology will boost the economy by a whopping £45 billion by 2030. Aviation and technology minister Anthony Browne said: "Cutting-edge battery technology will revolutionise transport as we know it - this plan will make sure we have the infrastructure and regulation in place to make it a reality. "From flying taxis to emergency service dro...
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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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Bumble is launching a new AI-powered tool to help tackle spam and fake profiles. The Deception Detector aims to stop users of the dating app from getting caught out by romance scams, which have been on the rise. Humans will also work alongside the machine learning AI to scan profiles to check all the facts are legit. Lidiane Jones, CEO at Bumble Inc., said: "In recent years, the online landscape has evolved significantly and we see a growing concern about authenticity. "With a dedicated focus on women's experience online, we recognise that in the AI era, trust is more paramount than ever. We a...
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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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Zoom is heading to the Apple Vision Pro headset. When the mixed-reality headset lands on February 2 in the US, it will come with the video-conferencing app. Users will be able to use Personas to create realistic-looking avatars of themselves and the "Spatial Zoom experience", an immersive office space where it looks like you are in the same room as your co-workers. Zoom also has some other functions that will launch at a later date, including 3D object sharing, giving creative and technical industries the ability to work together on 3D model designs, Team Chat messaging, and Real World Pinning...
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