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You can now add songs to Spotify straight from Instagram posts
19 Oct

You can now add songs to Spotify straight from Instagram posts

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With short-form videos becoming extremely common these days, it's not unusual to discover new songs and artists from apps like TikTok and Instagram. Now, Instagram has started rolling out a Spotify integration that will let you add songs you hear from posts and Reels straight to the audio streaming app, 9to5Mac has reported. If an Instagram post uses a song, and it's linked at the bottom of the screen, tap on the song name to go to its audio preview page. There, you'll find a new button that says "Add" with the Spotify logo right next to the audio scrubber.When…
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DJI challenges its ‘Chinese military company’ Pentagon designation in court
19 Oct

DJI challenges its ‘Chinese military company’ Pentagon designation in court

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DJI has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense over its addition to the Pentagon list that designates it as a "Chinese military company." In its filing, shared by The Verge, the company said it's challenging the designation because it's "neither owned nor controlled by the Chinese military." It described itself as the "largest privately owned seller of consumer and commercial drones," mostly used by first responders, fire and police departments, businesses and hobbyists.The company claimed that because the Pentagon has officially proclaimed it as a national security threat, it has suffered "ongoing financial and reputational harm." It…
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Canon EOS R5 II review: Canon’s most powerful camera yet puts Sony on notice
19 Oct

Canon EOS R5 II review: Canon’s most powerful camera yet puts Sony on notice

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Move over Sony, Canon is trying to take the lead in bleeding-edge tech for mirrorless cameras. The company’s new $4,300, 45-megapixel EOS R5 II offers advanced features like eye-tracking autofocus (AF) that can’t be found on any recent Sony model. The new camera is also pushing Sony’s A1 and other models in the key areas of speed, video and autofocus. And it’s arguably more desirable than Canon’s own upcoming flagship R1 as it has nearly double the resolution.I’ve had the R5 II for a few weeks, evaluating not only its practicality and speed for both professionals and serious amateurs, but…
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Samsung and LG OLED TVs are close to all-time lows, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
19 Oct

Samsung and LG OLED TVs are close to all-time lows, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals

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We're in the awkward stretch between Amazon's October Prime Day event and next month's Black Friday sales, so it's admittedly a slow week for tech deals. Nevertheless, we've found a few steep discounts on premium OLED TVs from Samsung and LG, the entry-level Apple Pencil, our favorite cheap running earbuds, recommended power banks, Sony headphones and more. Here are the best tech deals from this week that you can still buy today.Samsung S90C OLED TV (65") for $1,300 at Best Buy ($300 off MSRP): The S90C's QD-OLED panel mixes the typical advantages of an OLED TV — excellent contrast with…
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Google NotebookLM adds improved audio overviews and background listening feature
19 Oct

Google NotebookLM adds improved audio overviews and background listening feature

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Google’s NotebookLM software that primarily impact audio overviews. For the uninitiated, the platform’s Audio Overview tool uses AI to whip up an audio summary of a piece of content. It started with written content, but has since .So what’s new? Users can now input specific instructions before generating a “Deep Dive” overview. Google gives examples of tasking the software to focus on a single topic or adjusting the expertise level to suit a particular audience. The company says it’s like “slipping the AI hosts a quick note right before they go on the air.”There’s also a new background listening feature,…
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Qualcomm axes its Windows on ARM PC dev kit
18 Oct

Qualcomm axes its Windows on ARM PC dev kit

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Qualcomm has canceled its Windows on ARM PC dev kit, otherwise called the Snapdragon X Elite Developer Kit. Refunds are going out, sales have ceased and support for the kit has stopped, . It was originally supposed to ship in June before being delayed.In an email to customers, Qualcomm chalked the whole thing up to quality control. It said the mini PC “comprehensively has not met our usual standards of excellence” and “we have made the decision to pause this product and the support of it, indefinitely.” Interestingly, some kits to consumers. It remains to be seen if those who…
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The US Treasury is using AI (a vehicle for fraud) to detect fraud
18 Oct

The US Treasury is using AI (a vehicle for fraud) to detect fraud

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AI has been used to defraud people through everything from calling voters to faking celebrity giveaways. Now, the US Treasury Department claims machine learning AI has played a critical part in its enhanced fraud detection processes over the past year — if a broken clock can be right twice a day, maybe AI can do something good one time?In a new release, the Treasury states it prevented and recovered "fraud and improper payments" worth over $4 billion over the last fiscal year (October 2023 to September 2024). This number represents a tremendous increase from the previous year, which reached just…
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The 10 best sleep apps and gadgets for a better night’s sleep in 2024
18 Oct

The 10 best sleep apps and gadgets for a better night’s sleep in 2024

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Personally, the best thing I’ve done for my sleep is banishing my phone from the bedroom, so it may seem ironic to add a smartphone app to this list. Headspace, however, has the opposite effect on sleep that social media does. Like the Hatch Restore, this iOS and Android app has an extensive library of meditations and exercises to help you relax and fall asleep. I prefer the shorter, wind-down segments that last a few minutes and help you do a full body scan to relax. Longer “Sleepcasts” run around 45 minutes and tell you stories in calm voices –…
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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin startup is dropping the coin and doubling down on Orbs
18 Oct

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin startup is dropping the coin and doubling down on Orbs

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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is going to need some new business cards printed up because it’s dropping the “coin” in its name. The OpenAI CEO’s startup is shifting from cryptocurrency to focus more on its identification technology and it just unveiled a new version of its signature gadget. reported that the new company called (wait for it) World will focus its eye scanning tech on confirming identities, something that could come in handy in a world of deep fake videos popping up all over the internet.Co-founder and CEO Alex Blania introduced the World’s newest device called Orb, a biometric eye scanner…
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X updates its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI models with its data
18 Oct

X updates its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI models with its data

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X is updating its privacy policy with new language that allows it to provide users’ data to third-party “collaborators” in order to train AI models. The , which takes effect November 15, 2024, would seem to open the door to Reddit-like arrangements in which outside companies can pay to license data from X.The updated policy shared by X includes a new section titled “third-party collaborators.”Depending on your settings, or if you decide to share your data, we may share or disclose your information with third parties. If you do not opt out, in some instances the recipients of the information…
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