Following last month’s announcement, Google Translate for iPhone has received a Material You redesign.
Update 3/22: Google made the redesign official with version 7.1 of Translate today. This update brings Material You to the iPad, and introduces five lockscreen widgets on the iPhone:
Lens: Translate with your camera or any image
Translate Text Translate between languages by typing
Dictation…
Switching smartphones can be a hassle for a lot of reasons, but it’s even worse when you’re switching between brands. In China, some of the biggest smartphone brands in Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo are teaming up to make this process easier.
Announced on Weibo, these three…
Almost 18 months after the introduction of the first-generation wireless Bluetooth earbuds, the second-generation Nothing Ear (2) have been officially unveiled.
Details were shared on the earbuds during an official live-streamed announcement hosted by company founder Carl…
Microsoft is bringing Image Creator to the new Bing to generate images from text prompts
March 22, 2023
With the success of Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing, the company is integrating a secondary tool called the Bing Image Creator powered by the DALL-E model.
Bing’s new setup is simultaneously scary and impressive, as the service is purely AI-based. The new search engine setup is powered by Microsoft’s “next-generation OpenAI language model.” According to the company, this new model is…
Google today opened up early access to Bard, its generative AI chatbot, and we’ve had a bit of time to play around with it. The takeaway so far? Google isn’t exactly treading new ground here, but Bard is at least much more clear on what it can do, can’t do, and where…
Apple TV users have had it a bit rough with YouTube TV as of late, but a new update is on its way that fixes a couple of long-standing issues, including HDR handling.
A YouTube TV engineer confirmed on Reddit this week that a new update has “just started” rolling out to…
Google has tasked the Assistant team to work on Bard
March 22, 2023
The conversational aspects of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), like LaMDA, make it ripe for smart assistants. Google specifically mentioned Assistant two years ago as a product where it hopes to incorporate “better conversational features.” That has yet to happen, but the Google Assistant team is helping lead Bard development.
Sissie Hsiao was appointed as vice president and…
Android Auto’s “Coolwalk” dashboard update has been around for a couple of months now, but Google’s own navigation app, Waze, has lacked support for the platform refresh, but it seems like things are progressing.
When it first debuted in beta, “Coolwalk” came…
Following this morning’s expansion, Google is heavily using its Pixel, Nest, and other consumer-facing brands to invite people to use Bard.
Approximately 90 minutes after Google announced it was opening up access to Bard, Pixel owners received a “You’re invited to try…
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It’s been an interesting few weeks in Pixel software updates. With this particular cycle coming to a close, let’s recap:
The March cycle actually started on February 28 with Fall Detection…
