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YouTube Premium upgrade adds smart downloads and picture-in-picture mode for Shorts

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YouTube is adding several new features for Premium users, including smart downloads and support for picture-in-picture mode for Shorts, as well as a wider rollout of its “Jump Ahead” feature for navigating through videos. The Google-owned video streaming platform already allows background play and picture-in-picture mode for long-form videos so you can consume content while […]

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Character.AI now allows users to talk with AI avatars over calls

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a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls. The feature currently supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. The startup tested the calling feature ahead of today’s public launch. During that time, it said that more than 3 million users had

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Bluesky lets you curate accounts and feeds to follow with its Starter Pack feature

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Social network Bluesky has added a new feature for users to create a curated list of people and custom feeds to follow. This feature, called “Starter Pack,” is intended to help users joining the social network to find interesting content right out of the gate. Existing users can add accounts and custom feeds to create

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Google Translate adds support for 110 languages, representing 614M speakers

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Google said today that it is adding support for 110 languages to its translation service. The company has used its PaLM 2 AI model to power translations.  These languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, Nko, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Tamazight (Amazigh) and Tok Pisin. The company said the newly added languages represent over 614 million speakers or roughly

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Google improves search experience in the Chrome mobile app

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Facing new competition from startups like Arc, Google announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing five new features to the Chrome browser on mobile devices, each designed to enhance the search experience. These include new shortcuts for local search results, a refreshed address bar for easier navigation, trending search suggestions, live sports cards for fans, and

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Video editing app Captions releases AI edit feature that automatically adds effects to your video

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Video editing app Captions, which is backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, has launched a new feature that takes an existing unedited video and adds custom graphics, zooms, music, sound effects, transitions and motion backgrounds based on the content. There are a few restrictions for AI edit — it should be a vertical

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Opera’s browser adds AI-powered image generation and better multimedia controls

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Opera said today it is releasing Opera One’s second version in developer beta with features such as new multimedia controls, split tabs, and new AI capabilities. The company is introducing new themes and design elements to give Opera One R2 a fresh look. Opera has traditionally placed the multimedia controls on the sidebar. But with

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Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers

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Reddit announced on Tuesday that it’s updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which tells automated web bots whether they are permitted to crawl a site. Historically, robots.txt file was used to allow search engines to scape a site and then direct people to the content. However, with the rise of AI, websites are being

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