Topic: geographic availability
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Google Prioritizes 'Preferred Sources' in Top Stories Search Results
Google has launched Preferred Sources, a feature allowing users in the U.S. and India to customize their news feed by selecting trusted publishers, which then appear more prominently in Top Stories. Users can easily set up preferred outlets via a trending topic search, with changes taking imm...
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Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Sell Out Amid High Demand
The new Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses sold out across nearly all U.S. retail locations within two days of launch, indicating exceptionally strong consumer demand and prompting active restocking efforts. These glasses feature a 20-degree diagonal field of view monocular display with 5000 nits...
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Facebook Reintroduces Job Listings Feature
Facebook has relaunched its job listings feature, focusing on connecting local businesses with candidates for entry-level, service, and trade roles, accessible via Marketplace and community groups. The platform enforces safety guidelines, requiring users to be 18 or older and prohibiting certain ...
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Google Launches Loyalty Tools for Retail Merchants
Google has launched new tools for retailers to display loyalty program benefits like member pricing and shipping perks directly in search and shopping results, enhancing visibility and customer engagement. The initiative includes a loyalty goal in Google Ads to optimize campaigns for repeat custo...
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Google Business Profiles Introduces 'What’s Happening' Feature
Google introduced "What's Happening" for Business Profiles, allowing restaurants and bars to highlight promotions and events prominently at the top of their listings to attract more customers. The feature displays real-time updates like specials or events and requires businesses to create Google ...
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Create Deepfakes of Friends with OpenAI's New Video App
OpenAI's new Sora app enables users to create AI-generated deepfakes of friends with explicit consent, currently available on an invite-only basis in the U.S. and Canada. The app features "cameos" where users can grant permission for others to produce videos using their likeness, with co-ownershi...
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Google Pixel's New Notification Organizer Rolls Out
Google's new **Notification Organizer** for Pixel phones automatically sorts alerts into groups like Promotions and News, aiming to declutter the notification panel. The feature is available in the Android 16 QPR2 beta for select countries and languages, appearing as bundled categories marked wit...
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Google & DeepMind Unveil Pomelli: AI Marketing Revolution
Pomelli is an AI tool from Google Labs and DeepMind, currently in public beta for English-speaking users in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, designed to help small and medium-sized businesses create cohesive marketing campaigns. The tool builds a "Business DNA" profile by analyzing a c...
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Microsoft's Mico: The AI Era's Answer to Clippy
Microsoft has introduced Mico, a customizable visual avatar for Copilot AI designed to make interactions more personable and accessible, featuring expressive reactions and color changes during conversations. The update includes features like a nostalgic Clippy Easter egg, a "Learn Live" tutoring ...
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Amazon Prime Day 2025: Deals Start October 7
Amazon Prime Day 2025, officially called Prime Big Deal Days, will run from October 7 to October 8, offering Prime members exclusive discounts on electronics, home goods, and more. The event provides significant savings ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with steep discounts expected from to...
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OpenAI Criticized for Ad-Like App Suggestions
A ChatGPT test feature mistakenly suggested the Peloton app in an unrelated conversation, sparking user backlash over perceived ads, which OpenAI clarified was not a paid promotion. The incident, widely shared online, highlighted user frustration over unsolicited product suggestions, which felt i...
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Firefox for iPhone Adds 'Shake to Summarize' Feature
Firefox is introducing a shake-to-summarize feature on iPhone, allowing users to generate AI-powered summaries of webpages for quick content digestion. The feature uses Apple's on-device AI on iPhone 15 Pro or newer with iOS 26, while older devices rely on Mozilla's cloud-based system, with alter...
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Samsung Internet Beta Now Available on PC
Samsung has launched a PC beta version of its Samsung Internet browser, expanding beyond mobile to enhance the Galaxy ecosystem and advance its ambient AI vision. The browser syncs user data like bookmarks and history across devices and integrates Galaxy AI tools such as Browsing Assist for insta...
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Unlock New ChatGPT App Integrations: Spotify, Figma & Canva
ChatGPT now enables direct app integrations with services like Spotify, Figma, and Canva, allowing the AI to perform tasks such as creating playlists or design templates for a more efficient workflow. Users can connect accounts by mentioning the app in a prompt or through the Settings menu, but m...
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Sora's US iOS Launch Rivals ChatGPT's Debut Week
Sora's debut on the U.S. iOS App Store saw approximately 627,000 downloads in its first week, slightly surpassing ChatGPT's initial launch figures despite being invite-only. The comparison with ChatGPT is nuanced, as Sora launched in both the U.S. and Canada, and when adjusted for U.S.-only downl...
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Google Photos AI now edits your photos by voice or text
Google Photos is introducing an AI-powered editing feature for Android that allows users to make changes using voice commands or text descriptions, simplifying the editing process. Initially available on Pixel 10 devices in the U.S., the tool offers suggestions and can perform a wide range of edi...
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