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AI Test Kitchen adding text-to-image demos as Google releases short stories co-written with AI

November 3, 2022
Google announced AI Test Kitchen as a way to let people “learn about, experience, and give feedback on emerging AI technology.” First announced at I/O 2022 in May and rolled out in August, AI Test Kitchen “Season 2” was previewed today with a focus on text-to-image generators. The existing three demos — Imagine It, List It, and Talk About It — are focused on more conversational…
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Google Play adopting new app quality thresholds for top charts and recommendations

November 3, 2022
Google is introducing a new “app quality bar” for the Play Store to give more prominence to higher-quality titles. The Google Play Store will steer users away from low-quality apps and games by excluding them “from impactful discovery surfaces such as recommendations.” The two core vitals are user-perceived crash and ANR (Application Not Responding) rates that apps must remain…
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YouTube for Android updated with Material You homescreen widgets

November 3, 2022
Following iOS last month, YouTube for Android now offers homescreen widgets that provide quick access to search and core parts of the app. The first capability available is being able to quickly “Search YouTube.” Tapping the text field opens the YouTube app to the search…
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Nvidia enters the speech AI race, joining Meta and Google

November 3, 2022
Join us on November 9 to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit. Register here. At Nvidia’s Speech AI Summit today, the company announced its new speech artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, which it developed through a partnership with Mozilla Common Voice. The ecosystem focuses on developing…
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How to see your heart rate zones on Apple Watch and iPhone during or after workouts

November 3, 2022
A handy new health and fitness feature comes with watchOS 9 and iOS 16 that’s available both during and after workouts. Follow along for how to see heart rate zones on Apple Watch and iPhone, what they mean, how to see your max heart rate, manually edit your zones, and more. In watchOS 9, Apple Watch and iPhone automatically creates your five heart rate zones based on the Heart Rate Reserve…
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