Meta, like other leading tech companies, has spent the past year promising to speed up deployment of generative artificial intelligence. Today it acknowledged it must also respond to the technology’s hazards, announcing an expanded policy of tagging AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads with warning labels to inform people of their artificial origins. … Read more
Hey, remember when Snap made a drone that flew over your head and shot an aerial selfie? The Pixy drone was more or less an experiment, in line with Spectacles and Snap’s other forays into hardware. The drone debuted in May 2022, but then the company officially killed off the Pixy in August of that … Read more
Image: Skylight, Jorge Jimenez / Gizmodo, Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Christoph Dernbach/picture alliance (Getty Images), Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Angel Fajardo / Gizmodo, Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Dan Ackerman / Gizmodo The Apple Vision Pro is finally on sale, and we’ve got all the info you need on it before … Read more
Pennies were pinched in Mountain View last year. For much of its existence as a public company, Google had made a headline-grabbing acquisition at least once a year as it used the profits from its surging ads business to bet on new frontiers. Billions of dollars went to scooping up Motorola, Nest, HTC, and Fitbit … Read more
After the whole Taylor Swift pornographic deepfake fiasco, you’d think Google Bard might be a little more careful. But as one user on X (formerly Twitter) found out it, was surprisingly easy to generate an image of Taylor Swift with the ChatGPT rival. SEE ALSO: What to do if someone makes a deepfake of you … Read more
June Wan/ZDNET When the Galaxy S24 launched, it came with what one ZDNET editor called the most “You’re watching Disney channel” feature ever: Circle to Search. The feature is similar to Google Lens, but instead of taking a screenshot or photo over to another app to learn more, it allows users to do a Google … Read more
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Although it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno supports most of the features you’d expect out of a native YouTube app. You can watch videos (obviously), scrub and skip through them using pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the videos’ aspect ratios. Browsing YouTube’s catalog is also supported (though you can’t see video comments), and Juno … Read more
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Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire … Read more
“You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag,” said that infamous 2000s anti-piracy commercial from the Motion Picture Association. “Piracy is stealing.” Do Not Steal Our Robot Dog! But would you pirate a song? Last year, over 17 billion visits were made to music piracy websites around the world, first reported by Wired. … Read more
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Every time another Google app or feature bites the dust — even a small, relatively inconsequential one — I get annoyed. Really annoyed. Here’s the thing: there are Google Assistant-equipped devices in three rooms of my relatively small house: living room, bedroom, and office. Which means, unfortunately, that when I say “Hey, Google” out loud … Read more