The Hype leaderboard is supposed to be all great videos all the time. | Image: YouTube It’s a new way for viewers to share the stuff they really like — and for creators to grow on an increasingly busy platform. Continue reading…

YouTube’s Inspiration tab will happily tell you exactly what to make next. | Image: YouTube Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google’s entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company’s newest tech in service of helping creators create. On Wednesday, at its Made on YouTube event in New York City, the company announced a series of AI-related features on the platform, including a couple that might change how creators make videos — and the videos they make. The first feature is the new Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app, which YouTube has been testing in a limited way over the last few months. The tab’s job is, essentially, to tell you what to make: the AI-powered tool will suggest a concept for a video, provide a title and a thumbnail, and even write an outline and the first few lines... Continue reading…

Communities are for creators to talk to their fans — and for fans to talk to each other. | Image: YouTube Many creators post videos on YouTube but take to other platforms to actually interact with their fans and viewers. With a new feature called Communities, YouTube is hoping to offer those types of interactive options right on the platform, so creators might not need to take to Discord, WhatsApp, or maybe Instagram or Reddit anymore. The Communities feature, which YouTube launched today at the Made on YouTube event in New York City, is sort of a mix of old-school forum, subreddit, and Facebook group. Once a creator turns on their community, anyone who joins can post, and people can reply to each other. The idea is presumably that you’ll all talk about things related to the creator whose community you’re in, but if you’ve ever been in a... Continue reading…

Eve’s smart light switch now works with Matter and the Thread device can be controlled directly with an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, no hub required. | Image: Eve Systems With this week’s release of iOS 18, adding smart home devices to Apple Home just got a lot easier. The update brings direct local control of Matter devices to newer iPhones, meaning all you need to set up and control them is an iPhone that can run iOS 18 — no hub or border router required. This is good news for anyone interested in dabbling in smart home gadgets who isn’t ready to go all in. Matter is a new standard designed to simplify the smart home. Compatible devices work over Wi-Fi or Thread, a protocol specifically designed for IoT gadgets. With iOS 18, you can now add any Wi-Fi device to Apple Home with just an iPhone. For Thread devices, you’ll need an iPhone with a Thread radio (iPhone 15 Pro or newer). This doesn’t mean you s... Continue reading…

Photo: Nilay Patel Apple rolled out updates to all of its major operating systems this week, and the Vision Pro was no exception. With visionOS 2, the company has a chance to show the relative few who bought its spendy headset — and those who might yet — that it’s still committed to the new platform. After a few months of using it in beta, visionOS 2 isn’t a dramatic change — it’s more like a smoothed-out version of the software the headset launched with. The addition of things like new gestures, better device support, and a couple of splashy features has removed a lot of the friction of using the Vision Pro and should give people who own it a reason to dust it off and take it for another spin. Improving the basics Let’s start with updates that really... Continue reading…

OpenAI scheduled a surprise media event in May, right before Google's I/O 2024 keynote, where Google focused on new Gemini AI capabilities across its product portfolio. OpenAI stunned the world at the time with new multimodal ChatGPT features, including the ability to understand content in photos, videos, and a computer screen. More impressive was Advanced Voice Mode, which allowed ChatGPT to conduct voice conversations more naturally. You could interrupt the chatbot with new information, similar to what a human discussion is like, and ChatGPT would not lose its train of thought. You could also feel emotions and changes in ChatGPT's tone that are unique to humans. Google demoed similar features for Gemini AI a day later. But neither company had all those features ready to roll out widely at the time. OpenAI released Advanced Voice Mode to a select group of ChatGPT Plus users in late July. The company said all Plus users would get Advanced Voice Mode this fall without revealing a release date. Now, a new set of leaks seems to indicate that date is closing in fast. OpenAI might make ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode available to more users as soon as next week. Continue reading... The post ChatGPT leak says Advanced Voice Mode rolls out to all Plus users next Tuesday appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $375+ free Today’s deals: $129 AirPods 3, Nintendo Switch game sale, $30 Fire TV Stick 4K, $16 TOZO earbuds, more Best Apple Watch deals for September 2024 Today’s deals: $100 off Sihoo Doro C300 Pro office chair, Rare Nintendo Switch OLED sale, Anker chargers, more

Just imagine – the famed bronze-winged lion above one of the columns in Piazzetta San Marco, often seen as a universal symbol of Venice and ancient Hellenistic sculpture, has now proved to be of Chinese origins! In fact, contact between these two civilizations well predated the legendary Marco Polo, as new research is showing us. Researchers have traced the bronze material of this sculpture back to ancient Chinese copper deposits found in the lower Yangzi River region, an area known for its mining activities stretching back 3,000 years to the late Shang Dynasty. Architecture of the Floating (Or Sinking) City: How Was Venice Built? The Doges of Venice: Venetian Rulers for More than a Millennium From Near East to Far East: Chinese Origins of the Winged Griffin It had already been established that the statue did not originate in Venice, and previous theories had pointed to a Near Eastern, possibly Anatolian, source from the 4th or 3rd century BC, reports a press statement by University of Padua, home to a cutting-edge archive of lead isotopes. Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther ArtifactsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later 

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