Tech Meme

Scott Stein / CNET: Google says its Project Starline team shrunk the 3D video chat tech from the size of a booth to a large TV, which Salesforce, T-Mobile, and WeWork are testing  —  Exclusive: Google’s vision of 3D conversational chats is going from booth to flat screen.  —  While most people have chosen … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google previews Wear OS 4, offering improved battery life and accessibility features, new tools for building watch faces in collaboration with Samsung, and more  —  At Google’s I/O developer conference today, the company previewed the next version of its smartwatch operating system, Wear OS 4. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel Fold with a 120Hz 7.6 main screen, a 5.8 exterior screen, a Tensor G2, and 12GB of RAM, for preorder now and arriving in June  —  Google’s first foldable phone feels like what I always wanted from the Surface Duo to be.  —  I’ve been using some version … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Robinhood announces 24-hour trading of selected stocks and ETFs, five days a week, rolling out with 43 securities next week and available to all users by June  —  The online brokerage says all customers will have access by next month  —  Users of Robinhood Markets’ popular app will soon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, purpose-built for training and inference of ML models  —  As we’ve seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it’s clear that these models take enormous amounts of compute power to train and run. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google launches MusicLM, its experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music, in the AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android, and iOS  —  Google today released MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music.  Available in the AI Test Kitchen app … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Peters / MarketWatch: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $441M, vs. $425M est., net loss up 30% YoY to $511M, and MAUs up by 400K QoQ to 11.8M, vs. 15.9M in March 2022  —  Analysts expected weaker volume heading into the results  —  Shares of Robinhood Markets Inc. moved higher on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google announces new features for cars with native Android software, including YouTube, Waze, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex by Cisco, and more video games  —  Google announced a slew of new features that will be available to cars with native Android software, including YouTube, Waze … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: YouTube is running a “small experiment” globally with a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium to watch videos  —  YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Google unveils Universal Translator, an experimental service that redubs video in a new language and synchronizes the speaker’s lips to match the new audio  —  Google is testing a powerful new translation service that redubs video in a new language while also synchronizing the speaker’s lips with words they never spoke. Lees verder op Tech Meme