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At the Google I/O 2024 event, the search giant added a new model to the Gemini family. The Gemini 1.5 Flash model is developed for high-frequency tasks that require minimum latency. It still brings multimodal capabilities and a context window of 1 million tokens.
Anmol Sachdeva
Unveiled at Google I/O 2024, Veo is the company's newest and most capable AI video generation model that takes on OpenAI Sora. You can join a waitlist to test Veo via Google's VideoFX experimental tool, starting in the U.S.
Google Photos Gets a Gemini Upgrade with the ‘Ask Photos’ Feature
Abubakar Mohammed
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Google has announced in Google I/O 2024 that the Google Photos app will get a new Ask Photos feature this Summer which will allow you to search for photos in a more personalized way.
Google has expanded the context window of the Gemini 1.5 Pro model from 1 million to 2 million tokens. Developers can access the large context window in private preview. And Gemini 1.5 Pro also comes to consumers via Gemini Advanced with a context window of 1 million tokens.
Nothing has launched Android 15 Beta 1 for their Nothing Phone 2a. This upgrade does not include any new features even though the community post does mention a new boot animation and wallpapers. It also breaks the fingerprint scanner and does not include any NothingOS specific widgets, features and apps.
Ishan Adhikary
Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios are teaming up to bring Lara Croft to life in a new live-action series for Prime Video. Award-winning writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, known for her work on Fleabag, will be at the helm, writing and executive producing the show. While the cast and premiere date are still under wraps, this promises to be an exciting new chapter for the iconic explorer.
Anmol Sachdeva
House of the Dragon season 2 new trailer is here and it shows the House Targaryen and House Hightower at battle. The trailer features Daemon Targaryen mounting his dragon Caraxes and jumping into a battle. The much anticipated battle between Daemon and Prince Aemond Targaryen could be the highlight of this season. House of the Dragon season 2 will release on Max on June 16, 2024 on Max.
Xbox Hikes Game Prices by up to 300%, and I’ve Never Felt More Excluded
Upanishad Sharma
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In another shocking move for selected countries, Xbox decided to covertly raise prices for a select few of its games. This includes the likes of Sea of Thieves, Gears 5, Halo Wars and many more. Gamers naturally are angry at the company and calling it out for being greedy. This is especially worse considering Xbox' shutdown of multiple Bethesda studios just a few days earlier.
Kanika Gogia
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple's vice president of iPad and Mac product marketing, Tom Boger explained how the new iPad compares to the Mac. He clarified that Apple doesn’t see the two devices as competitors. Rather, the Mac and iPad are "complementary" to each other. When asked about Touchscreen Macs, Boger replied “Oh, I can’t say we never change our mind”.
OnePlus has released Android 15 Beta 1 firmware for the OnePlus 12 and OnePlus Open smartphones. The update has a few unironed issues and requires OnePlus 12 users to be on OxygenOS version 14.0.0.610 or lower and version 14.0.0.702 or lower for the OnePlus Open users.
Microsoft Copilot Phone Plugin Lets You Use AI to Respond to Texts, Here’s How
Anshuman Jain
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Microsoft's Copilot, now has a Phone plugin allowing users to read and send text messages, and access contact information via the AI chatbot. To use this plugin, users will have to connect their phones to a Windows PC using the Phone Link app. It will be able to read, summarize and send text messages to your contacts. You can even ask it to draft messages for you. This feature is available on both free and paid versions of Copilot.
All Nothing Earbuds Are Getting ChatGPT Integration, but There’s a Catch
Sagnik Das Gupta
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When Nothing launched its Ear and Ear (a) last month, these earbuds arrived with ChatGPT integration as a highlight feature. However, that was limited to only these two earbuds in the brand's catalog. Now, the brand has announced that it will be making the integration available to all of its earbuds on May 21. But, to make use of the feature, users will need to be on a Nothing Phone.
Google is working on a project called Ferrochrome which brings the ability to virtually run ChromiumOS right from your Android device. Since it's in very early stages, many things are broken, but as the project progresses, it should allow users to use desktop level apps on their Android devices.
Apple Introduces iOS 17.5 with Cross-Platform Tracking, Repair State, and More
Ajaay Srinivasan
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Apple has released the new iOS 17.5 update to iPhones, bringing significant enhancements to iPhone tracking and security. The updates comes with Cross-Platform Tracking Detection, a new "Repair State" mode inside the Find My app, Pride wallpapers, a new word game inside News+ app, and Podcast widgets.
Sony has appointed two new CEOs after Jim Ryan's departure in March 2024. From 1st June 2024, Hideaki Nishino will be the CEO of SIE’s Platform Business Group, and Hermen Hulst will be the CEO of SIE’s Studio Business Group. The interim CEO Hiroki Totoki will be the Chairman of SIE while retaining his previous roles as the President, COO, and CFO of Sony Group Corporation.
Assassin’s Creed Red Is Officially AC Shadows; Possible November Release
Sampad Banerjee
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After a lot of silence, Ubisoft is finally ready to unveil Assassin's Creed Codename Red, which is now called Assassin's Creed Shadows. The Feudal Japan adventure will get its cinematic reveal on May 15, 2024, at 9 AM PT. The company also accidentally revealed the game's November release date.
Live Photos Leak Reveals Every Angle of All Three Pixel 9 Phones
Abubakar Mohammed
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A new Google Pixel 9 series leak is here and they add to the previous leaks and confirm the display sizes of the upcoming three-device Pixel series. The Pixel 9 will feature up to 12 GB RAM, whereas the 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL will have up to 16 GB RAM. All three phones will have a redesigned camera island too, which no longer extends to the edges.
OpenAI has finally unveiled its next flagship model called GPT-4o which is a truly multimodal model. And it will be available to all ChatGPT users including free and paid users. On top of that, all ChatGPT Plus features are being made available to free users as well. OpenAI says the update will roll out in the next few weeks. Besides that, OpenAI has also launched a desktop app for macOS.
India’s First: Chennai Doctors Embrace the Apple Vision Pro for Surgery
Sagnik Das Gupta
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Using the Apple Vision Pro, doctors of Chennai's GEM Hospitals have performed nine laparoscopic procedures alongside a series of gastrointestinal procedures. The doctors have also used the mixed reality headset for spine and eye surgeries, making the total number of such surgeries go over 30. Dr. R Parthasarathy, the surgical gastroenterologist and COO at the hospital stated that the device allows him to see superimposed virtual screens in the real world, that display critical information like the patient's CT scans, MRI images, and so on. This prevents him from craning his neck having to constantly look up at the monitor.
Ajith Kumar
Get ready to experience the intense battle royal play in the form of an anime as the Singaporean game developer Garena officially announced that the anime adaptation of Free Fire is now under development in a press release. The Kadokawa Company is co-producing the animation. Kadokawa Blue Feather has been charged with developing this fresh anime adaptation. The release date of the anime Garena Free Fire is unknown, but it will premiere in Japan and streaming platforms worldwide.
The Xiaomi-owned POCO brand has confirmed POCO F6's launch date in India and it's May 23. For those unaware, the POCO F6 is supposedly a rebranded Redmi Note 13 Turbo. The phone is rumored to come with Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, triple-rear cameras, and a 5000 mAh battery with 90W fast charging.
The day we all have been waiting for is here finally. In chapter 1114, Vegapunk discussed a certain well-known figure that we are already acquainted with and that is none other than Joy Boy, who is said to be the main character in this tale existed during void century. Joyboy is claimed to have used the rubbery powers back then, just as Luffy battles now using the godly powers of Sun God Nika. In addition, Vegapunk claims that Joy Boy was the first person to set sail for the oceans and the first person to be called a "Pirate" in this universe.
Apple's M4 processor's impressive benchmark scores have prompted Qualcomm to reconsider their upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 application processor's design. The redesign, finalizing in June, aims for a 4.26GHz clock speed using Qualcomm's own Phoenix cores, targeting Apple's A18 chip.
Quelling all rumors, OpenAI has finally announced an event for May 13 at 10 AM PT (10:30 PM IST). It was anticipated that OpenAI would release its ChatGPT search engine challenging Google's dominance. However, Sam Altman says that the company will demo some new stuff that works like magic.
Radojka Travar
Minecraft snapshot 24W19B mostly focuses on making some technical changes and fixing old and relevant bugs. Those include performance boost, new cave sounds, added new vibrations for certain actions, fixed crash due to a villager dying and more. The mace was nerfed in the previous 24W18A snapshot and those changes include reduced attack damage and speed, smash attack calculation changes, additional density damage reduced and incompatibleness of all damage enchantments.
ChatGPT’s New Feature Will Make It Easy to Analyse Files from Cloud Storage
Sagnik Das Gupta
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An X user going by the username @legit_rumors has now spotted that ChatGPT is set to get a new Context Connector feature. With this feature, ChatGPT users will now be able to directly fetch their online Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive files and analyze that data using the AI chatbot.
Microsoft is working on a Start Menu Companion feature that will bring Adaptive Cards similar to live tiles on the Windows 11 Start menu. It's currently being tested on the latest Windows 11 Insider Beta build.
ASUS ROG Ally X Arrives Next Month with Some Significant Upgrades
Abubakar Mohammed
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Following ROG Ally's success, ASUS is gearing up for a yearly refresh of the console and will be launching Ally X. The improved version will supposedly come with more RAM, a huge battery upgrade, a new black SKU, and much improved repairability.
A new report now confirms that OpenAI is going to release its ChatGPT search engine on Monday (May 13). The report also says that the OpenAI search engine will include citations and source real-time information from the web. The search engine has now been indexed by Bing and DuckDuckGo as well.
It seems Microsoft Xbox plans to launch a mobile gaming app store sometimes in July this year. This will be a web-based app store, and will allow gamers to download first-party Xbox titles like Candy Crush, Minecraft, and even Call of Duty games from there.
Windows 11 Snipping Tool Gets QR Code Scanning and Emoji Support
Abubakar Mohammed
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In a new update to Windows 11 Insiders, Microsoft is rolling out new features to the Snipping Tool. Version 11.2404.37.0 of the Snipping Tool now comes with QR code scanning and will let users use Emoji as a markup asset in screenshots. It also brings a bunch of improvements to shapes and color opacity in the tool.
In a recent update we got to know that Ralph Ineson will play the main villain in Fantastic Four and is going to play the live action version of Galactus in the MCU. This will make Fantastic Four's cast an all-star cast where Julia Garner will be seen as the Silver Surfer.
New Nintendo Switch 2 leaks have surfaced online as multiple sources claim to know more about the device. According to the compiled leaks of Android Authority, Switch 2 will have could have 12GB of RAM, 2x 6GB LPDDR5X modules capable of 7,500MT/s transfer speed, and 256GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage. Another leak from Brazilian streamer tvPH suggests that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be revealed in March 2025 as more information will come in Fall 2024.
As per a new report from Bloomberg, Xbox is planning more layoffs at their ZeniMax studios, which they purchased for $7.5 billion in 2020. Moreover, Xbox president Matt Booty claimed that the reason for the shutdown of three studios was them being understaffed, thus, prompting a restructuring. The Xbox team is of the opinion that the resources should be allocated to other prominent projects.
Hope is the Thing with Feathers is an OST for the Harmonious Choir The Great Septimus and Sunday battle at the end of the 2.2 missions. You can obtain the Hope is the Thing with Feathers OST in Penacony and play it in the Astral Express. This OST is located in the Golden Hour, east of the Clockie Statue. Speak with the Vexed Pepeshi Guest and Lonely Intellitron Guest to get it.
Early Geekbench scores for the Apple M4 chipset has just surfaced online and it has broken all records in the consumer chipset segment. Its single-core score has breached the 3,800 mark, outranking the Snapdragon X Elite and x86 chips from Intel and AMD. Apple is running the Apple M4 at 4.4GHz.
App Mall Arrives on ChromeOS: A New Way to Explore Chromebook Apps
Abubakar Mohammed
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Google is now rolling out App Mall on ChromeOS which is a way for users to discover apps, games, and download popular apps. The feature was first spotted in March but can now be enabled by flipping a flag in "Chrome://flags". ChromeOS' Discover app also recommends a few apps; hence, it will be interesting to see if App Mall ends up replacing it.
Moto Buds and Buds+ Launched in India: Price and Specifications
Abubakar Mohammed
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Motorola has launched its latest audio products the Moto Buds and Buds+. The Buds come with a stronger 50dB ANC while the Buds+ have 46dB ANC. The Buds+ get wireless charging, are tuned by Bose, and have dual-dynamic drivers (11 + 6 mm). The Buds cost Rs. 4,999 while the Buds+ cost Rs. 9,999.
Genshin Impact Natlan Update Will Downgrade Visual Performance on Older Devices
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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Genshin Impact will do a major visual overhaul in the version 5.0 Natlan update, upgrading the overall visuals and functions of the game. This means that the game will have a higher performance requirement after the Natlan update while keeping the minimum requirements the same. Players may see a slight visual performance drop after the Natlan update, as the resolution of some image details of smaller objects and the effect range of some special effects will be decreased for older devices.
The Office Follow-up Series Set in the Same Universe Officially Ordered by Peacock
Aparna Ukil
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The Office is an American sitcom that has entertained us for years and now, even after a decade of its final episode, no one can question its popularity. Well, an unnamed follow-up series to the celebrated media franchise is across the horizon and here's everything you should know about it.
Disney+, Hulu, and Max to Offer a Bundle Plan and It’s Cable All over Again
Shashank Shakya
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In a recent update, it was revealed that Warner Bros and Disney are merging together to provide a Disney Plus, Hulu and HBO Max bundle. This bundle will be released in the United States in summers and as of now, we don't have a confirmed release date or pricing for this bundle.
CMF's next phone has been leaked yet again and this time we have some specifications, pricing and other details. It will be budget phone featuring a 6.5-inch display with Gorilla Glass protection, 5,000 mAh battery, single rear camera, MediaTek Dimensity SoC and will run a cut down version of Nothing OS with 3+4 years of software updates.