Topic: ai-powered features

  • Google Photos AI turns Clueless virtual closet into reality

    Google Photos AI turns Clueless virtual closet into reality

    Google Photos is introducing a new AI-powered feature that creates a digital closet from your clothing photos, allowing users to generate outfit ideas and virtually try on combinations, inspired by the "Clueless" film. The AI automatically scans your Google Photos library to identify and catalog ...

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  • Google Translate Adds Pronunciation Help

    Google Translate Adds Pronunciation Help

    Google Translate has launched an AI-powered "pronunciation practice" feature that provides real-time feedback on speech to help language learners improve their enunciation. The feature is currently available only to Android users in the United States and India, supporting English, Spanish, and Hi...

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  • Arctera InfoScale Uses AI to Detect and Stop Ransomware

    Arctera InfoScale Uses AI to Detect and Stop Ransomware

    Arctera's InfoScale platform now uses AI to detect and neutralize ransomware threats in real time by analyzing behavioral patterns across applications, storage, and infrastructure. The system provides full-stack visibility and application-aware actions, enabling immediate protective measures to l...

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  • Google launches Finance Android app, iOS version coming later in 2026

    Google launches Finance Android app, iOS version coming later in 2026

    Google Finance launched its first standalone Android app after two decades as a web-only service, with an iOS version promised later this year. The app includes AI-powered features, such as "key moments" that generate summaries explaining why stock prices shifted at specific points. Users can bui...

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  • Google Pixel 10: 10 Game-Changing Features for Phone & Watch

    Google Pixel 10: 10 Game-Changing Features for Phone & Watch

    The Pixel 10 series introduces AI-powered tools like Camera Coach, which provides real-time photography guidance and suggestions to help users capture better shots. Magic Cue in Google Messages and Gboard uses personal data from linked services to generate context-aware, personalized responses an...

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  • Over a million people now have access to the gen-AI powered Alexa+

    Over a million people now have access to the gen-AI powered Alexa+

    Amazon's AI assistant Alexa+ has reached over one million users, offering advanced generative AI features like fluid conversations and smart home integration, currently available by invitation. Alexa+ provides personalized responses, natural language processing, and premium services like email su...

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  • Apple WWDC 2025: Key Announcements Revealed

    Apple WWDC 2025: Key Announcements Revealed

    The new names are iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26. Apple is also bringing the Phone and the newly announced Games app to macOS 26, along with support for the iPhone’s Live Activities. You can use the integration to automatically translate texts in the Messages app, while you’ll hear speech translated aloud on the Phone app. Apple previewed an update that will let users take a photo with their iPhone or iPad by tapping the stem of their AirPods. The features will...

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  • AllTrails Launches $80 AI-Powered Smart Routes Membership

    AllTrails Launches $80 AI-Powered Smart Routes Membership

    AllTrails is launching an $80 annual Peak membership with AI-powered features like custom route planning, real-time trail forecasts, and plant identification, set for global rollout by June. The premium tier includes AI-driven Smart Routes, traffic heatmaps, and weather integration, while future ...

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  • Nothing Phone (3) Debuts as Brand's Priciest Flagship Yet

    Nothing Phone (3) Debuts as Brand's Priciest Flagship Yet

    The Nothing Phone (3) is a premium flagship smartphone priced at $799, featuring a distinctive transparent design and innovative features like the Glyph Matrix mini-LED screen for dynamic notifications. It includes AI-powered tools like Essential Space for meeting transcriptions and Essential Sea...

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  • Pocket is shutting down: 7 best read-it-later alternatives

    Pocket is shutting down: 7 best read-it-later alternatives

    Mozilla retired Pocket in May 2025, with a hard data export deadline of October 8, 2025, prompting users to migrate to alternatives like Instapaper and Matter, as well as new indie apps. Key alternatives include Matter (with AI co-reader and podcast transcription), Instapaper (free unlimited savi...

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  • Yope raises $12.3M for ad-free, algorithm-free social network

    Yope raises $12.3M for ad-free, algorithm-free social network

    Yope raised $12.3 million in a funding round led by Northzone to build an ad-free, algorithm-free social platform centered on small, private "micro communities" for genuine connection. The app, which has nearly 15 million registered users, uses AI to strengthen interpersonal bonds through feature...

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  • Spotify's Running Mode Syncs Music to Your Pace

    Spotify's Running Mode Syncs Music to Your Pace

    Spotify's new Running Mode uses AI to create playlists that match users' exercise intensity, musical preferences, and target beats per minute (BPM), with customizable presets and optional coaching tools. The feature builds on the Prompted Playlists technology and is available exclusively to Premi...

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  • Uber enters hotel business with AI-powered platform

    Uber enters hotel business with AI-powered platform

    Uber is expanding its services by allowing US customers to book hotel rooms directly in its app, partnering with Expedia Group to offer access to over 700,000 hotels worldwide, with Vrbo rentals coming later this year. Uber One members receive a 20% discount on a rotating selection of 10,000 hote...

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  • Uber expands into hotel bookings with new app feature

    Uber expands into hotel bookings with new app feature

    Uber is adding hotel booking to its app through a partnership with Expedia, offering access to over 700,000 properties and aiming to create a seamless travel loop combining rides, hotels, and food delivery. The feature is built from scratch using Expedia’s API, with Uber One subscribers getting e...

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  • Samsung Health to delete data if users refuse AI training

    Samsung Health to delete data if users refuse AI training

    Samsung is requiring users to consent to their health data being used for AI training and human review, or risk losing data syncing and having their data deleted. The data collected includes step counts, sleep patterns, medication logs, cycle tracking, and comprehensive health records. This polic...

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  • Google integrates Display Ads into Demand Gen campaigns

    Google integrates Display Ads into Demand Gen campaigns

    Google is integrating Display Ads management into Demand Gen campaigns, allowing advertisers to manage GDN placements within a centralized campaign environment while still offering the option to run ads exclusively on GDN. This consolidation gives Display advertisers access to newer AI-powered fe...

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  • Pixel 11 embeds Gemini in OS weeks before Siri

    Pixel 11 embeds Gemini in OS weeks before Siri

    Google unveiled the Pixel 11 lineup with Gemini Intelligence, a system-level AI layer embedded in the OS that proactively connects apps and services to anticipate user actions, moving beyond the standalone chatbot model. Google is now competing directly with Apple, which is rebuilding Siri on Gem...

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  • Spotify targets fitness content as next growth area

    Spotify targets fitness content as next growth area

    Spotify has launched a dedicated "Fitness" hub with full workout sessions, partnering with wellness creators and Peloton to offer music and video content across mobile, desktop, and TV apps. Premium users in select markets can access over 1,400 ad-free, on-demand Peloton classes (no equipment nee...

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  • Open-Source Pentesting Platform for Red Teams | Cervantes

    Open-Source Pentesting Platform for Red Teams | Cervantes

    Cervantes is an open-source collaborative platform for red teams and security professionals, centralizing project management, vulnerability tracking, and reporting to improve efficiency in security assessments. The platform offers native collaboration features, a customizable knowledge base, and ...

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  • Apple releases public betas for iOS 27 and more

    Apple releases public betas for iOS 27 and more

    Apple has released public betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, with a full rollout expected this fall. The key new feature is Siri AI, an AI-driven overhaul of the virtual assistant that delivers on its promises but tends to keep responses concise. Users should be ca...

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