Microsoft will now let you edit a screenshot or image taken on Android devices using the Snipping Tool on Windows 11

What you need to know Microsoft just shipped March 2024 Patch Tuesday updates to Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices. The update ships with several bug fixes, including two critical vulnerabilities in the Windows Hyper-V virtualization technology. Microsoft is expected to ship its latest Windows 11 feature drop to general availability via April’s Patch Tuesday update. Microsoft […]

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Microsoft censors Copilot following employee whistleblowing, but you can still trick the tool into making violent and vulgar images

What you need to know Microsoft has placed new guardrails on its AI-powered Copilot following reports of the tool being able to create sexual, violent, and vulgar images. A Microsoft employee warned the company about what Copilot could be used to create back in December 2023 and wrote a letter to FTC chair Lina Khan […]

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AppleCare Support Advisors Testing New ChatGPT-Like Tool ‘Ask’

Apple is internally testing a new ChatGPT-like generative AI tool that will enable employees to offer faster technical support going forward. Apple recently launched a pilot program that provides select AppleCare support advisors with access to a new tool called “Ask” that can automatically generate responses to technical questions they receive from customers, according to […]

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Apple Developing AI Tool to Help Developers Write Code for Apps

Apple is working on an updated version of Xcode that will include an AI tool for generating code, reports Bloomberg. The AI tool will be similar to GitHub Copilot from Microsoft, which can generate code based on natural language requests and convert code from one programming language to another. The Xcode AI tool will be […]

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Apple’s Latest AI Tool Can Animate an Image Based on Your Description

Apple has made another addition to its growing AI repertoire with the creation of a tool that leverages large language models (LLMs) to animate static images based on a user’s text prompts. MacRumors image made with DALL·E Apple describes the innovation in a new research paper titled “Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design Using Large Language Models.“ […]

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Microsoft stuffs AI features into Notepad and Snipping Tool

Microsoft has announced that it is rolling out updates to the Notepad and Snipping Tool applications for Windows on Windows 11 Insider Preview’s Canary and Dev channels. The latest updates bring AI-powered features, allowing these apps to offer more convenience and productivity than before. Starting with the update to Notepad, it bumps the app’s version […]

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This new Apple AI image tool is something Microsoft needs to steal for its own AI Image Creator. Here’s why.

What you need to know Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI image tool that allows users to edit images using text prompts. The MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE) tool can resize, flip, crop, and even add filters to images via text prompts.   You can download it on GitHub, though Apple hasn’t categorically stated its […]

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Apple releases AI image generation tool called MGIE

Apple’s image editing AI model has arrived albeit it’s far from a finished product. MGIE, short for multimodal large language models-guided image editing, is currently available on GitHub and there’s a PDF project paper with instructions. The model uses text instructions to change and edit images. It can do simple image editing tasks like increasing […]

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Security Researcher Allegedly Exploited Internal Apple Tool to Steal Millions

A security researcher who reported bugs to Apple was arrested in January for defrauding the company out of millions of dollars, according to a report from 404 Media. The researcher, Noah Roskin-Frazee, was accused alongside a co-conspirator obtaining over $3 million in products and services through more than two dozen fraudulent orders. That included around […]

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Google is testing new tool that protects Android users against scammers

Google is launching a new pilot program to help Android phone users avoid getting scammed for their money and personal information. The company will soon be testing a new feature for enhanced fraud protection through Google Play Protect. Although Google made app downloads safer through Play Protect real-time scanning last year, the company says scammers […]

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Google takes on Microsoft’s Image Creator from Designer with a cool tool that lets users fine-tune outputs using ‘expressive chips’

What you need to know Google recently announced that Bard, ImageFX, Search, and Vertex AI will run on its updated Imagen 2 model. The company promises more quality and detailed AI-generated images since the model is trained on “higher-quality and image-description pairings.” The company also debuted a new image generation tool dubbed ImageFX, which is similar […]

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Google takes on Microsoft’s Image Creator from Designer with a cool tool that lets users fine-tune outputs using ‘expressive chips’

What you need to know Google recently announced that Bard, ImageFX, Search, and Vertex AI will run on its updated Imagen 2 model. The company promises more quality and detailed AI-generated images since the model is trained on “higher-quality and image-description pairings.” The company also debuted a new image generation tool dubbed ImageFX, which is similar […]

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Windows 11 looks to be getting a key Linux tool added in the future

What you need to know Users of Linux and macOS may well be familiar with the sudo command, used regularly in the terminal, and it looks like Windows may finally be getting its own version.  Spotted in a preview build of Windows Server, a new option to enable sudo with three configurable options is present […]

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Samsung’s eSIM transfer tool now works with non-Galaxy phones

eSIM is a great feature, as it lets you switch carriers without needing a physical SIM card. However, transferring an eSIM from one device to another is a chore, as you have to jump through hoops and follow several instructions, and those instructions vary for each cellular network carrier. To solve this issue, Google launched […]

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Microsoft teases BIG updates coming to the Sticky Notes tool on Windows 11 and Windows 10 soon

What you need to know Microsoft’s Sticky Notes social media account on X has teased big updates coming soon. Sticky Notes is one of the only apps that didn’t get a refresh when Windows 11 launched in 2021. Luckily, the updates won’t turn Sticky Notes into a web app… for now. It looks like the […]

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Windows 11’s Snipping Tool is gaining a new feature that will make illustrations for How-to guides a breeze

What you need to know Windows 11’s Snipping Tool will let you add shapes to your screenshots soon. The feature was spotted in a recently released Windows 11 preview build, though it’s not available for everyone since  it appears to be in A/B testing. It is likely to roll out to Windows Insiders via a […]

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Google launches tool to move Podcasts content to YouTube Music

In September this year, Google announced that it will shut down Google Podcasts in April 2024 and that YouTube Music will be the company’s only platform from where people will be able to listen to podcasts. So, it means that people using Google Podcasts have to shift to YouTube Music or any other podcast service. […]

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Microsoft’s solution to the HP Smart app forcing its way onto PCs is to make you install a tool and use Command Prompt

What you need to know A Windows bug installed the HP Smart app onto some PCs without permission. The issue also renamed printers to be listed as HP devices, even if they were made by a different brand. Microsoft released the Printer Metadata Troubleshooter Tool to fix the issue on affected PCs, though it requires […]

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Instagram introduces Backdrop, a tool to replace backgrounds in photos using AI

At the Connect event that was held in September this year, Meta announced Backdrop for Instagram, a tool powered by generative AI that can replace the background in an image with the one that you describe to it in the text format. Back then, the company hadn’t revealed an exact timeline for the release of […]

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To use the new Windows AI Studio tool, you must first install Linux. No, it’s not a joke

What you need to know Windows AI Studio is a new tool designed to help developers integrate AI into their Windows apps.  It’s offered as an extension to Visual Studio Code and is available to install now.  But first, you must install Linux (and have an NVIDIA GPU).  Microsoft has a new developer tool it […]

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