Galaxy S24 gets improved lock screen wallpaper effects with Vision Core update

Samsung introduced many new features with One UI 6.1, which debuted earlier this year with the Galaxy S24 series. One such feature was Photo Ambient, which adds weather effects to the lock screen wallpaper. Samsung is improving the performance of those effects with a new update. Samsung Vision Core update brings more realistic weather effects […]

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Add Edge Lighting effects to your Galaxy phone without Good Lock

Edge Lighting used to be a Good Lock-exclusive feature, but parts of it have since been simplified and added to One UI as a regular option for users who might not have access to the Good Lock platform. What is Edge Lighting? If the name didn’t give it away, Edge Lighting allows you to add […]

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Unity is ending a service agreement with Peter Jackson’s Weta FX visual effects company, which will result in laying off 265 workers

What you need to know Unity Software is a company best known for the development of its game engine, Unity, which has been used to create several games on various platforms.  Today, it was revealed that Unity Software is terminating a service agreement made with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s Weta FX visual […]

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The Hidden Feature to Add Effects to Your Messages – iPadOS 17

Sending messages is one of the things all Apple users do. You send your messages by typing out the message, or you can dictate your messages. But despite your method, the text will look the same once delivered. But what if you could add effects to your messages? For example, add some confetti to a […]

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Sound Assistant update brings blingy effects to volume controls

Over the past few weeks, Samsung has been updating its first-party apps to support One UI 6, and it looks like the company just released updates to even more apps. After updating Good Lock, Nice Catch, Samsung Music, and Theme Park apps, Samsung has released updates to Routines+ and Sound Assistant apps. Routines+ app gets […]

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Diablo 4: List of all Malignant Heart effects, powers, and types in Season 1

Each of Diablo 4’s live service seasons will shake up its gameplay with a temporary new addition or system, as Blizzard wants to ensure that the popular ARPG feels consistently fresh to play throughout the months and years to come. At the core of its first season, Season of the Malignant, are Malignant Hearts — […]

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Ocean Currents Are Slowing, With Potentially Devastating Effects

In the crushing, cold depths of the oceans, something unimaginably huge flows inexorably, barely a few centimeters per second, along a path it has traveled for millennia. Dense, dark rivers of water toil ceaselessly around the world, making up around 40 percent of the total volume of the deep oceans. They are gigantic conveyor belts […]

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Samsung Chromebooks could soon get charging sound effects

Google’s ChromeOS is quickly becoming a viable alternative to Windows and macOS, especially for those with a workload that mainly involves browsing the web. Google has also been adding many new features and integration with Android devices. Now, the company is planning to add a small but useful new feature. Currently, the only way to […]

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Microsoft brings Windows 11 Studio Effects to the Quick Settings panel in latest beta build

What you need to know Windows 11 build 22623.885 is now rolling out in the Insider Beta Channel. It features quick access to Windows Studio Effects, a new Energy Recommendations page in Settings, and more. There are also a handful of fixes and improvements included with the build. Microsoft has rolled out a new Windows […]

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Google Meet gets accurate background effects and cloud processing

Google is rolling out some new updates for Google Meet on the web. The update essentially improves the background effect accuracy and performance. Previously, the backgrounds on Google Meet weren’t accurate, and you could see patches of background getting washed off when a background effect was applied. Now, with the new update, Google has improved the accuracy […]

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Microsoft Teams for web gains background effects, CART captioning, and more

What you need to know Microsoft just announced several features for Teams on the web. The web version of Teams now supports background effects, CART captioning, and live captions in an additional 27 languages. Live transcripts are also available in 27 newly supported languages. Microsoft Teams for the web has a new range of features […]

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Boost Windows 11 performance simply by disabling visual effects

Windows 11 incorporates many visual effects to make the experience a little more user-friendly with animations, shadows, translucent effects, and smoother fonts. The only caveat is that they require the use of more resources, affecting performance, and they can make the system feel slower. However, you can disable the system effects to boost performance and […]

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Adobe After Effects Updated With Native Apple Silicon Support, Up to 3x Faster Speeds Than High-End iMac Pro

Wednesday April 13, 2022 3:48 am PDT by Sami Fathi Adobe has updated its professional video editing software After Effects with native M1 support, offering customers up to 3x faster render speeds on Apple’s latest Macs compared to high-end Macs with Intel processors. [embedded content] On M1 computers, Adobe promises up to 2x faster performance […]

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Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects now have built-in Frame.io

Premiere Pro and After Effects are wonderful programs that allow people to edit their videos and then add animations, footage, or audio easily. Today, Adobe announced several updates and a significant change coming to both programs. Among these updates, the video collaboration platform, Frame.io, is now built-in to these programs, making it easier to communicate […]

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Windows 11 will harness the power of NPUs for useful camera effects soon

Microsoft has today announced that it’s planning to introduce several new features designed to enhance the video calling experience on Windows 11. Unveiled as part of its hybrid work event, these new features include native support for eye correction, background blur, automatic framing, and noise suppression on supported devices with a dedicated Neural Processing Unit […]

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Android 13 beta brings wallpaper effects, new media controls, foreground manager

Google seeded the Android 13 developer preview 2 last week and we now see the new features of the beta being unearthed one by one. Starting with the redesigned media controls. They’re in their accustomed place between the quick settings and notifications, but their widget is larger now. The track’s title and description can fit […]

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Here’s how to control visual effects on Windows 11

On Windows 11, the desktop elements like the Taskbar and Start menu, and some apps like the Settings app, use a new transparent base layer that uses the Mica material part of the Microsoft Fluent Design language. The new material lets the background shine through using a blur technique without affecting performance or battery life […]

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