Topic: user interface
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Discover Music Faster with Spotify's New Smart Filters
Spotify has introduced smart filters for Premium subscribers, enabling music sorting by mood, activity, or genre, and enhancing discovery of playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts. The update is part of Spotify's broader personalization efforts, including recent AI-powered playlist creation and mana...
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Google Home's 'Ask Home' Redesign Launches on iPhone
The Google Home app for iPhone has been redesigned with a new visual identity and introduces the "Ask Home" feature, which includes a chat-style interface for device control and search, though complex conversational prompts are not yet active. Navigation is streamlined into three main tabs—Home, ...
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I Tried Smart Glasses That Outperform Meta Ray-Bans - Here’s How
The Rokid Glasses are an AI wearable priced at $599, featuring advanced capabilities like a Micro LED waveguide display for immersive text, translations, and teleprompter functions. They have a discreet design that resembles ordinary glasses and offer intuitive interaction through touch, voice co...
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Unlock 10,000-Character Blogs on Threads Posts
Meta has introduced a new text attachment feature for Threads, allowing users to include up to 10,000 characters of additional text alongside their standard posts, greatly expanding writing capabilities. Users can access this feature via a new icon in the post composer, which opens a built-in tex...
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iOS 26 Review: Power User Tips for Reminders & Preview
The iOS 26 update introduces new productivity features, focusing on AI-powered enhancements to the Reminders app and its integration with Apple Intelligence for power users. The Reminders app's AI excels at organizing simple, brief tasks but struggles with grouping complex or detailed entries int...
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WhatsApp Adds In-App Message Translation for iOS and Android
WhatsApp has launched a new in-app message translation feature for iOS and Android to help users communicate across different languages. The feature allows manual translation by long-pressing messages and supports offline use, with Android users also getting automatic translation for entire chats...
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ChatGPT's Branching Feature: Why AI Isn't Human
OpenAI has introduced a branching feature for ChatGPT, enabling users to create parallel conversation threads from any point without altering the original chat. This update allows for non-linear exploration of ideas, such as testing different creative directions or strategies, while preserving pr...
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Google Ads Introduces New Checkbox Filters for Campaigns
Google Ads has introduced multi-select checkbox filters, enabling advertisers to manage and compare multiple campaigns simultaneously for improved efficiency. This update eliminates the need to toggle between individual campaign pages, saving time on tasks like bulk edits, reporting, and performa...
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Explore The Universe From Your Living Room With Cosmic XR
Cosmic XR is a mixed reality app for Quest 3 and Quest 3S that transforms your living space into an interactive planetarium, allowing users to explore and manipulate celestial objects using hand-tracking technology. The app features impressive holographic models that blend with the physical envir...
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LockBit's Newest Ransomware Is Its Most Dangerous Threat Yet
LockBit 5.0 is a new, more dangerous ransomware variant targeting Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi platforms, posing a cross-platform threat to entire enterprise infrastructures. The ransomware features faster encryption, enhanced evasion techniques like removing infection markers, and anti-forens...
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Try Chrome's New Split Tabs Feature Now in ChromeOS 139
The split tabs feature in ChromeOS 139 allows users to view and interact with two web pages simultaneously within a single browser tab, enhancing multitasking efficiency. It offers a polished interface with adjustable panes, easy swapping, and the ability to open links between sides, all while ke...
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Alexa Plus: Smarter, But Still Not Smart Enough
Alexa Plus introduces a conversational interface allowing natural language commands and mid-command corrections, though it still falls short of creating a fully ambient home experience. The system excels at executing multi-step commands and managing smart devices intuitively, but suffers from inc...
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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Review (Switch 2)
**Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles** is a refreshed version of the classic tactical RPG, designed to appeal to both new players and series veterans with its rich narrative and strategic combat. The release introduces significant enhancements including full voice acting, polished visu...
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LG's $1,800 Senior TV Misses the Mark
LG's Easy TV is a high-priced ($1,800) television aimed at seniors, but its complex features may contradict the need for simplicity and affordability. The TV includes a senior-friendly remote with a numeric keypad, large fonts, and dedicated buttons for essential functions to improve ease of use....
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These Rokid Glasses Made Meta Ray-Bans Feel Obsolete
The Rokid Glasses are AI-powered eyewear that integrate digital assistance into the user's field of vision using Micro LED waveguide displays for a monochrome visual interface. They feature an intuitive user experience with a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant, live translation, and a teleprompter f...
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WhatsApp's New AI Feature Rewrites Your Messages in Any Tone
WhatsApp has launched an AI-powered "Writing Help" tool that allows users to adjust message tone, clarity, and engagement in real time while composing. The feature uses on-device processing with Meta's Private Processing technology to ensure message content remains confidential and is never acces...
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Sam Altman: ChatGPT on Track to Surpass Facebook in Daily Users
ChatGPT is experiencing rapid growth in daily active users, indicating a significant shift in technology engagement and potentially surpassing established social networks. The platform allows users to customize their experience by selecting regional settings, which tailors data and responses to l...
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This Smartwatch Ditches Notifications for Tetris
The Tetris: My Play Watch is a $79.99 wearable gaming console that features the classic Tetris game on a 1.91-inch screen and tells time, operating independently without smartphone pairing. It includes basic fitness tracking like a step counter and heart rate monitor, but all health data is store...
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EFF's Rayhunter: Open-Source Tool to Detect Cellular Spying
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released Rayhunter, an open-source tool that detects cell site simulators used for unauthorized mobile surveillance. Rayhunter runs on affordable hardware, analyzes metadata without capturing personal data, and alerts users via a visual interface when ...
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Apple Nears Launch of OLED MacBook Pro with Touchscreen
Apple is reportedly developing an OLED MacBook Pro with touchscreen capabilities, marking a significant shift in its design philosophy. The touch-enabled MacBook Pro models are expected to enter mass production by late 2026, featuring OLED panels for improved visual performance. Apple's interest ...
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Xbox Controllers Get a Major Windows 11 Upgrade
Microsoft is updating Xbox controllers on Windows 11 to allow users to open Task View by holding the Xbox button, improving multitasking during gameplay or productivity. A long press activates Task View while the power-off function remains unchanged, aligning with interface improvements for handh...
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System Shock 2 Remaster Re-Records Decades-Old Voice Acting for Controller Support
The System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster required re-recording all tutorial voice lines to remove keyboard-specific commands and enable controller compatibility. The new generic audio cues, such as "highlight the item," aim to work for both input methods but have caused confusion for keyboar...
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Create Your Own Netflix Highlight Clips
Netflix has launched a new feature enabling users to create and share custom video clips directly from their mobile app, allowing precise selection of start and end points. Users can generate clips by tapping a "Clip" button during playback and easily share them via platforms like iMessage, Insta...
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Your Ultimate Guide to Playing Roblox in VR
Roblox VR transforms its games into immersive experiences, with modern headsets making setup more accessible than older, bulkier equipment. The platform supports a variety of VR headsets, including SteamVR-compatible devices and recent Oculus models, but not the Apple Vision Pro or some older har...
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GameHub Now Syncs Silksong Saves Seamlessly Between Phone and PC
The GameHub update enables seamless cross-platform save synchronization between PC and mobile for Hollow Knight Silksong, allowing players to continue their progress across devices without manual transfers. To activate this feature, users must adjust the app settings by switching from the default...
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Strava's Apple Watch App Gets Major Upgrade for Series 11 Launch
Strava has introduced a major update featuring Live Segments, which allows users to compete against their own past performances or others on popular routes directly from their Apple Watch. The update includes a refreshed user interface for better readability and improved syncing for more reliable...
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iPhone 17 Pro vs Pixel 10 Pro: The Ultimate Showdown Winner
The iPhone 17 Pro and Google Pixel 10 Pro are closely matched in core specifications, including display size, refresh rate, and camera systems, but differ in their underlying hardware and design philosophies. The iPhone excels in processing power, battery life, and color accuracy, while the Pixel...
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Samsung One UI 8.5 Redesigns Your Lock Screen with New Clocks & Privacy
Samsung is developing One UI 8.5, expected to launch with the Galaxy S26 early next year, with recent leaks revealing lock screen improvements focused on usability and customization. A key enhancement is a new blur effect for notifications to improve text legibility against complex wallpapers, th...
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Leaked: Microsoft's New Xbox Mode for Windows Handhelds Revealed
Microsoft is launching a dedicated Xbox interface for handheld gaming PCs, accessible via Windows 11 updates, offering a streamlined, console-like experience that enhances gaming performance. The Xbox mode conserves about 2GB of memory by bypassing standard Windows processes, allowing direct acce...
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Google's New Desktop App Adds Spotlight-Style Search to Windows
Google is testing a new Windows desktop app that offers a Spotlight-style search via Alt + Space, enabling users to find information across local files, Google Drive, and the web. The app integrates Google Lens for visual searches and AI Mode for tasks like solving math problems, with results org...
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AI Photo to 3D World: Explore Your Images Like Never Before
Tencent's HunyuanWorld-Voyager is an AI model that generates immersive, navigable 3D-like video sequences from a single still image, eliminating the need for traditional 3D modeling. The system produces 2D video frames with depth information to simulate camera movement, creating up to two-second ...
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