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Google’s AI ‘Ask Photos’ Feature May Actually Be Usable Now
Google’s AI-powered Ask Photos feature was announced last year, but failed to make a splash when it started rolling out to the public. It replaced the regular photo search feature with a Gemini AI search that, often, took too much time when you just wanted to find photos of your pets, or your car. This was such an issue that…
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How to Use Threads’ Upgraded ‘Hidden Words’ Feature
Threads users will soon have more control over what shows up (or doesn’t) in their feeds. According to a Threads post from Instagram head Adam Mosseri, an update to the platform’s Hidden Words feature will allow users to customize which content is filtered out separate from their preferences on Instagram. Hidden Words itself isn’t new: Threads users can already mute…
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Meta adds privacy feature to WhatsApp days after US House ban – Computerworld
Using genAI processing to summarize personal messages marks the first time Meta has applied Private Processing, Meta said. “We expect there will be others where the same or similar infrastructure might be beneficial in processing user requests,” the company explained. Meta last week added secure keys to Facebook messaging, which provides an extra authentication layer for users to access messages.…
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I Tried Google’s Conversation Feature for AI Mode, and I’m Not Sure Who It’s For
If you’ve spent any time googling over the past month or so, you might have noticed Google pushing a brand-new feature: AI Mode. AI Mode essentially brings an AI chatbot web search to Google Search. (If you’ve ever used ChatGPT or Gemini to look something up, you might be familiar.) AI Mode takes your query and performs multiple searches at once,…
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Copilot finally has a feature that beats ChatGPT on Windows PCs – Computerworld
Copilot Vision can highlight things on your screen to draw your attention to them. Chris Hoffman, Foundry The Copilot Vision cons Beyond that, Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI experience has some of the same limits as any AI chatbot at the moment. It wants to validate you, the user. It may nod along, even if you get something wrong. For example,…
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Google pins weekend outage on “unexercised” feature
Google has apologised for a Cloud outage last week that knocked offline many of its own customers, saying the fault was down to a new feature that wasn’t properly tested – and promising to do better at communicating such incidents in the future. On Thursday last week, outages on status trackers like Downdetector began to suggest an issue with tens…
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Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A30 earbuds now feature active noise canceling
As with previous versions, Anker is making its new Soundcore Sleep A30 available for preorder through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that’s launching today, while full availability of the earbuds is expected sometime in August 2025 through Amazon and Soundcore’s online store. At $229.99, the Sleep A30 are quite a bit more expensive than last year’s $149.99 Sleep A20, but the…
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What is Relight in Microsoft Photos, and how to use it? AI image editing feature for Windows 11 explained.
Relight in the Photos app uses AI-powered lighting controls to correct poorly lit portraits by adding and positioning up to three customizable light sources, adjusting color, brightness, focus, and intensity on the fly. The feature offers quick-access presets like Golden Hour for warm, natural light or Cyberpunk for dramatic neon tones, and you can effortlessly apply creative lighting effects without…
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This New TikTok Feature Will Let You ‘Manage Topics’ on Your ‘For You’ Page
TikTok is giving users more options to personalize their For You feeds, so you can see more of what you want and less of what you don’t. The platform is rolling out “Manage Topics,” a new feature that piloted in the U.S. last year and is now available to users globally. How “Manage Topics” changes your TikTok feed With Manage…
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Google’s “Ask Photos” AI Feature Paused After Complaints
Summary Google paused ‘Ask Photos’ rollout due to latency, quality, and UX issues. Conversational search powered by Gemini AI faced bumps along the way. Improved ‘Ask Photos’ version expected to ship in two weeks. AI is currently being jammed into everything, but there are some places where it makes more sense than others. Google was testing a feature in Google…
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