Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Hands-on with Pixel 9’s AI camera features: Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, Zoom Enhance, and improvements to Video Boost and panoramas — Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, and Zoom Enhance—these camera features allow you to alter your photos with zero technical know-how.
Google announces Android accessibility updates, including an easier-to-use Guided Frame for photos, AI features for Magnifier, and new Live Caption languages (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)
Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET:
Google announces Android accessibility updates, including an easier-to-use Guided Frame for photos, AI features for Magnifier, and new Live Caption languages — Features like Guided Frame and Magnifier on Pixel get smarter — and easier to use. — Along with the debut of the Pixel 9 series …
Sources: after Google’s monopoly ruling, the DOJ considers options including forcing a breakup of the company or requiring it to share more data with rivals (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: after Google’s monopoly ruling, the DOJ considers options including forcing a breakup of the company or requiring it to share more data with rivals — – Antitrust enforcers soliciting input from outside companies — Judge ruled Alphabet unit monopolized online search, ads
NIST publishes its first three post-quantum cryptography standards; IBM’s director of research thinks quantum computing will hit an inflection point around 2030 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
NIST publishes its first three post-quantum cryptography standards; IBM’s director of research thinks quantum computing will hit an inflection point around 2030 — It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely …
Deep-Live-Cam, a deepfake software project that lets users impersonate others on a webcam livestream, goes viral and was briefly the top trending GitHub repo (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Deep-Live-Cam, a deepfake software project that lets users impersonate others on a webcam livestream, goes viral and was briefly the top trending GitHub repo — Using one photo and free software, someone can impersonate your appearance in a video chat. — Over the past few days …
Encord, which offers a data labeling tools for AI, raised a $30M Series B led by Next47 and expects to grow its headcount from 70 to 100 by the end of the year (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Encord, which offers a data labeling tools for AI, raised a $30M Series B led by Next47 and expects to grow its headcount from 70 to 100 by the end of the year — Labeling and annotation platforms might not get the attention flashy new generative AI models do. But they’re essential.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that geofence warrants are “prohibited by the Fourth Amendment”, at odds with a recent Fourth Circuit ruling (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that geofence warrants are “prohibited by the Fourth Amendment”, at odds with a recent Fourth Circuit ruling — A federal appeals court has ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, a decision that will limit the use …
Hands-on with Gemini Live: conversationally, a big step forward, but functionally, a step back in some ways, largely because it works entirely in the cloud (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Hands-on with Gemini Live: conversationally, a big step forward, but functionally, a step back in some ways, largely because it works entirely in the cloud — Google’s Android chief told our columnist the voice assistant was designed to impersonate humans, but he doesn’t want anyone getting romantic with it
Google unveils the Pixel Watch 3 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with a 2,000-nit display and around 16% smaller bezels compared to the Watch 2, starting at $349 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google unveils the Pixel Watch 3 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with a 2,000-nit display and around 16% smaller bezels compared to the Watch 2, starting at $349 — Besides being offered in a bigger size, the Google Pixel Watch 3 looks exactly like last year’s wearable, with software and under …
Google announces the $999+ 6.3″ Pixel 9 Pro and $1,099+ 6.8″ 9 Pro XL, with 120Hz “Super Actua” displays, Tensor G4, 16GB RAM, 45W fast charging, in four colors (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
Damien Wilde / 9to5Google:
Google announces the $999+ 6.3″ Pixel 9 Pro and $1,099+ 6.8″ 9 Pro XL, with 120Hz “Super Actua” displays, Tensor G4, 16GB RAM, 45W fast charging, in four colors — The Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL have officially been unveiled as the first Pro-series split in the history of Google’s smartphone lineup.
