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OnePlus 13R & 12GB RAM in the AI Era: Planned Obsolescence?

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OnePlus 13R & 12GB RAM in the AI Era: Planned Obsolescence? Last year, I purchased the OnePlus 12R with 16GB RAM and 256GB of storage, marking my return to OnePlus after the OnePlus One. Despite my disappointment with the curved display, the 16GB of RAM and solid hardware were a strong step forward for such a resource-intensive OS as Android. It was so effective in restoring my faith in OnePlus that this…

Reddit Android 399 2025-01-11

I Built SOUP: A Simple, Ad-Free AI-driven Space for Diverse and Real Connection

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I Built SOUP: A Simple, Ad-Free AI-driven Space for Diverse and Real Connection Hi everyone, I’m incredibly excited to share something I’ve been working on—it’s called SOUP, and it’ll (hopefully) be live on the App Store in the next few days! 🥳 SOUP started as an idea born out of frustration with the noise, toxicity, and lack of focus in today’s social media platforms. Ads, clickbait, and endless shallow content have taken …

Reddit Social Media 1.2k 2025-01-10

The AI Revolution Will Spawn Millions of New Tokens

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The AI Revolution Will Spawn Millions of New Tokens Tokenized AI agents will drive a new era of decentralized innovation, and their autonomy depends on the infrastructure we build today, says Georgios Vlachos, co-founder of Axelar protocol and director at Axelar Foundation.

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VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

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VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos Image: VideoLANThe popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real-time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to ge…

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Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast

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Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast Illustration: The VergeGoogle is testing an experimental AI feature that creates a personalized podcast using your Search and Discover feed history. The Daily Listen feature in Google’s Search Labs is rolling out to Android and iOS users in the US according to 9to5Google, and works similarly to the Audio Overviews feature for Google’s NotebookLM…

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Microsoft is reverting its Bing AI image generator because of quality complaints

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Microsoft is reverting its Bing AI image generator because of quality complaints Illustration by Haein Jeong / The VergeMicrosoft is rolling back a model upgrade to its AI-powered Bing Image Creator, reports TechCrunch. The rollback came after weeks of complaints by users that the tool just didn’t work as well after Microsoft “upgraded” to a new version of the DALL-E 3 model on December 18th. Microsoft declined to comment on…

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Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI … Minding Our Language

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Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI … Minding Our Language Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI … Minding Our Language As Melanie Mitchell argues in a recent article in Science, experts and non-experts alike have long struggled with finding the right words to describe AI. This means that AI is an area of technology that is full of metaphors, many of which convey the idea of AI t…

The Best Education Blog 970 2025-01-09

Glamlite seems to be using AI Now for their packaging

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Glamlite seems to be using AI Now for their packaging I apologize if this is old news, but it’s something I’ve noticed lately. Does anyone remember the holiday deal they had, where you could pick a box of either spooky items or food/sweet themed items? I am 100% sure the art on those boxes was AI generated. It just had that look. Everything rendered in the exact same amount of detail, the kind of p…

Reddit Makeup Addiction 927 2025-01-09

Mythic Quest is working through its AI woes in new season 4 trailer

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Mythic Quest is working through its AI woes in new season 4 trailer Mythic Quest’s third season ended on a hopeful note as the Playpen team hunkered down to start developing an all-new expansion, but all that hard work looks like it’s just going to lead to more headaches judging from the show’s latest season 4 trailer. While Mythic Quest’s new season will find Dana (Imani Hakim), Jo (Jessie Ennis), and Brad (Dan…

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Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind

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Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind Seriously: would you wear something like this on your face if it could really read your mind? | Image: OmiNik Shevchenko closes his eyes and starts to focus intently. He’s spent the last half hour or so telling me about his new product, an $89 wearable called Omi that can listen to, summarize, and get information out of your conversations. Now h…

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AI Hackathon at Google: Ideas for Android?

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AI Hackathon at Google: Ideas for Android? Hosting an AI hackathon at Google! What real-world problems would you love to see AI solve on Android? Open to all ideas—drop your thoughts below! submitted by /u/dreamfool101

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Philips Hue App Gaining AI Assistant for Generating Light Scenes

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Philips Hue App Gaining AI Assistant for Generating Light Scenes The Philips Hue app will soon be updated with new functionality that will let users generate different light scenes using AI, Hue parent company Signify announced today. A text phrase will be able to be used to generate a lighting scene with AI, offering more customization than the built-in scenes or scenes created from photos. Hue users will b…

Mac Rumors 827 2025-01-08

LPT: Enable “track changes” in Docs or Word to combat false-positives in AI detectors.

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LPT: Enable “track changes” in Docs or Word to combat false-positives in AI detectors. I’ve seen a bunch of posts lately decrying false positives in AI detection services/software and it basically becomes a battle who can convince who. However, if you enable change tracking in your document you can show the natural progression from blank page to finished paper and kill any doubt that you wrote it yourself. submitted by /u/I…

Life Pro Tips 684 2025-01-08

This smart ring is rolling out an AI chatbot trained on medical journals

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This smart ring is rolling out an AI chatbot trained on medical journals The Evie Ring first debuted at last year’s CES. Since then, it’s launched a second ring and is now introducing an AI chatbot. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeAI is the big buzzword in health tech at CES 2025. Everywhere you look, there are AI algorithms, AI health recommendations, and AI chatbots. The thing is, AI’s got a reputatio…

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