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Tencent Launches HunyuanPortrait, an Open-Source AI Model for Animating Portraits
Tencent released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday that can animate still portrait images. Dubbed HunyuanPortrait, the large language model (LLM) is based on the diffusion architecture, and can generate videos with realistic animation based on a reference image and a guiding video. The researchers behind the project highlighted th...
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TikTok Introduces New AI Alive Tool to Create Videos From Photos in Stories
TikTok is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to turn an image into an animated video. On Tuesday, the vertical video-based social media platform announced a new AI feature dubbed AI Alive that uses generative AI technology to create videos from photos. Currently, the tool can only be used to generate videos...
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Honor 400 Series to Feature an AI-powered Image-to-Video Generator, Reportedly Powered by Google
Honor 400 series is set to be launched globally on May 22. Ahead of the launch, the Chinese consumer tech brand has teased a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature of the upcoming smartphone series. It will get a new AI-powered image-to-video tool that can animate a static image. While not a lot is known about the new feature, reports claim that ...
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Character AI Unveils AvatarFX Model Capable of Generating Consistent Videos From Images
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, unveiled its first video generation model on Monday. Dubbed AvatarFX, it is an image-to-video model that can generate 2D and 3D animated characters. The AI firm claims the generated videos will hold temporal consistency with face, hand and body movement. Additionally, the vid...
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Researchers Using AI to Scan Animals’ Faces to Decipher Signs of Pain and Emotions: Report
Researchers are now reportedly experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher the facial expressions of animals to understand their emotions. As per the report, several research groups are now using AI models with computer vision to analyse emotions and signs of pain and distress in farm animals. This is one of the niche use cases of t...
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Google Said to Be Testing a New AI Overviews Animation for Search
Google might be testing a new animation for its artificial intelligence (AI) search summary feature AI Overviews. On Saturday, a social media user posted about the new loading animation that replaces the existing blue lines that show up when the AI is preparing a summary for a searched query. As per the post, the new animation has a blue and purple...
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World Labs Unveils AI System That Can Generate 3D Interactive Worlds Using an Image
World Labs, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup, unveiled its first AI system on Monday. The currently unnamed AI system can generate interactive 3D worlds using an image input. These generated worlds turn the 2D visual asset into explorable 3D scenes where users can navigate using a keyboard and mouse. The AI system is currently in preview an...
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OnePlus 12, OnePlus 12R 5G Start Receiving OxygenOS 15 Open Beta Update in India
OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 12R are getting the OxygenOS 15 open beta update in India. The two phones are the first in the entire OnePlus lineup to get the Android 15-based operating system (OS) update. The new OS update will introduce a redesigned user interface, artificial intelligence (AI) features, and faster processing. It also integrates Android...
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OxygenOS 15 Unveiled With New AI Features, Redesigned UI and Default Gemini Assistant
OxygenOS 15 update was unveiled by OnePlus on Thursday. The new operating system (OS) for OnePlus smartphones introduces new design upgrades, artificial intelligence (AI) features, and faster processing. Based on the latest Android 15, the update also brings new security features such as Google Play Protect’s live threat detection and theft prote...
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Runway Act-One With AI-Powered Facial Expression Capture Capability Added to Gen-3 Alpha Model
Runway AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm focusing on video generation models, announced a new feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Act-One, the new capability is available within the company’s latest Gen-3 Alpha large language model (LLM) and is said to accurately capture facial expressions from a source video and then reproduce them on an AI-genera...
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YouTube Reportedly Rolling Out 'Pause Ads' Widely After Strong Advertiser Response
YouTube is reportedly rolling out pause ads widely to users and advertisers. The video streaming giant first announced its plans to show these ads that appear when a video is paused last year. Many netizens have reported seeing these ads, expressing concerns over this move. These appear as a pop-up ad and can either be a static image or a short loo...
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Google Pixel 9 Series to Reportedly Feature a New Weather App With Redesigned Cards
Google Pixel 9 series is set to launch on August 13 at a Made by Google event. As per a new report, they may arrive with a new weather app. This new weather app, which is said to be designed just for the upcoming series which is rumoured to comprise the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
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Nothing OS 3.0 Lock Screen Customisation, Dot Animation Features Teased by CEO Carl Pei
Nothing OS 3.0 was teased by the company CEO Carl Pei on Saturday. The company, known for its social media marketing strategies, created a buzz when the company CEO “leaked” new features and an announcement timeline for the third major update of its smartphone operating system. The Nothing OS 3.0 will feature customisable lock screens that will...
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Luma AI Launches AI-Powered Text-to-Video Generation Platform Dream Machine
Luma AI launched its artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-video generation model, Dream Machine, globally on Wednesday. The platform can generate up to five-second-long videos from simple or descriptive text prompts. The AI model can generate videos in various styles such as cinematic, animation, realistic, and more. The AI firm claims that Dream M...
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iOS Exploit That Lets Developers Add 'Animated' App Icons Discovered: How it Works
iOS has many useful and interesting features, but when it comes to app icons, the system is pretty rigid. While Apple allows app developers to make use of a feature called Alternate App Icons to add one or more app icons that users can switch between, these changes can only be added manually by the user. However, a new report has found an iOS explo...
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Tencent Launches HunyuanPortrait, an Open-Source AI Model for Animating Portraits
Tencent released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday that can animate still portrait images. Dubbed HunyuanPortrait, the large language model (LLM) is based on the diffusion architecture, and can generate videos with realistic animation based on a reference image and a guiding video. The researchers behind the project highlighted th...
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TikTok Introduces New AI Alive Tool to Create Videos From Photos in Stories
TikTok is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to turn an image into an animated video. On Tuesday, the vertical video-based social media platform announced a new AI feature dubbed AI Alive that uses generative AI technology to create videos from photos. Currently, the tool can only be used to generate videos...
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Honor 400 Series to Feature an AI-powered Image-to-Video Generator, Reportedly Powered by Google
Honor 400 series is set to be launched globally on May 22. Ahead of the launch, the Chinese consumer tech brand has teased a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature of the upcoming smartphone series. It will get a new AI-powered image-to-video tool that can animate a static image. While not a lot is known about the new feature, reports claim that ...
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Character AI Unveils AvatarFX Model Capable of Generating Consistent Videos From Images
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, unveiled its first video generation model on Monday. Dubbed AvatarFX, it is an image-to-video model that can generate 2D and 3D animated characters. The AI firm claims the generated videos will hold temporal consistency with face, hand and body movement. Additionally, the vid...
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Researchers Using AI to Scan Animals’ Faces to Decipher Signs of Pain and Emotions: Report
Researchers are now reportedly experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher the facial expressions of animals to understand their emotions. As per the report, several research groups are now using AI models with computer vision to analyse emotions and signs of pain and distress in farm animals. This is one of the niche use cases of t...
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Google Said to Be Testing a New AI Overviews Animation for Search
Google might be testing a new animation for its artificial intelligence (AI) search summary feature AI Overviews. On Saturday, a social media user posted about the new loading animation that replaces the existing blue lines that show up when the AI is preparing a summary for a searched query. As per the post, the new animation has a blue and purple...
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World Labs Unveils AI System That Can Generate 3D Interactive Worlds Using an Image
World Labs, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup, unveiled its first AI system on Monday. The currently unnamed AI system can generate interactive 3D worlds using an image input. These generated worlds turn the 2D visual asset into explorable 3D scenes where users can navigate using a keyboard and mouse. The AI system is currently in preview an...
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OnePlus 12, OnePlus 12R 5G Start Receiving OxygenOS 15 Open Beta Update in India
OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 12R are getting the OxygenOS 15 open beta update in India. The two phones are the first in the entire OnePlus lineup to get the Android 15-based operating system (OS) update. The new OS update will introduce a redesigned user interface, artificial intelligence (AI) features, and faster processing. It also integrates Android...
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OxygenOS 15 Unveiled With New AI Features, Redesigned UI and Default Gemini Assistant
OxygenOS 15 update was unveiled by OnePlus on Thursday. The new operating system (OS) for OnePlus smartphones introduces new design upgrades, artificial intelligence (AI) features, and faster processing. Based on the latest Android 15, the update also brings new security features such as Google Play Protect’s live threat detection and theft prote...
-
Runway Act-One With AI-Powered Facial Expression Capture Capability Added to Gen-3 Alpha Model
Runway AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm focusing on video generation models, announced a new feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Act-One, the new capability is available within the company’s latest Gen-3 Alpha large language model (LLM) and is said to accurately capture facial expressions from a source video and then reproduce them on an AI-genera...
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YouTube Reportedly Rolling Out 'Pause Ads' Widely After Strong Advertiser Response
YouTube is reportedly rolling out pause ads widely to users and advertisers. The video streaming giant first announced its plans to show these ads that appear when a video is paused last year. Many netizens have reported seeing these ads, expressing concerns over this move. These appear as a pop-up ad and can either be a static image or a short loo...
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Google Pixel 9 Series to Reportedly Feature a New Weather App With Redesigned Cards
Google Pixel 9 series is set to launch on August 13 at a Made by Google event. As per a new report, they may arrive with a new weather app. This new weather app, which is said to be designed just for the upcoming series which is rumoured to comprise the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
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Nothing OS 3.0 Lock Screen Customisation, Dot Animation Features Teased by CEO Carl Pei
Nothing OS 3.0 was teased by the company CEO Carl Pei on Saturday. The company, known for its social media marketing strategies, created a buzz when the company CEO “leaked” new features and an announcement timeline for the third major update of its smartphone operating system. The Nothing OS 3.0 will feature customisable lock screens that will...
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Luma AI Launches AI-Powered Text-to-Video Generation Platform Dream Machine
Luma AI launched its artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-video generation model, Dream Machine, globally on Wednesday. The platform can generate up to five-second-long videos from simple or descriptive text prompts. The AI model can generate videos in various styles such as cinematic, animation, realistic, and more. The AI firm claims that Dream M...
-
iOS Exploit That Lets Developers Add 'Animated' App Icons Discovered: How it Works
iOS has many useful and interesting features, but when it comes to app icons, the system is pretty rigid. While Apple allows app developers to make use of a feature called Alternate App Icons to add one or more app icons that users can switch between, these changes can only be added manually by the user. However, a new report has found an iOS explo...
