Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google Pixel 7a review: the best midrange Android phone, with wireless charging and good performance, camera, and screen, but a slow fingerprint scanner  —  It’s $50 more than the Pixel 6A, but some key upgrades keep Google’s A-series at the top of the midrange class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google’s early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools  —  It has AI powered search, code tips and more.  —  It’s fair to say that Google was caught flat-footed by Microsoft’s launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google plans to roll out a redesigned Home app on May 11, with a Favorites tab, new device type support, and an eventual iOS update to support Matter devices  —  A much-needed update brings greater control and customizability.  Plus, Google updates its iOS app to support Matter devices. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Unity reports Q1 revenue up 56% YoY to $500M, vs. $480M est., net loss up 43% YoY to $254M, and Q2 revenue guidance above analyst estimates; U jumps 10%+  —  – Shares of Unity Software popped in extended trading Wednesday after the company released first-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Robinhood announces 24-hour trading of select stocks and ETFs, five days per week, starting with 43 securities next week and available to all users by June 2023  —  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 VM powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, built to deliver “the highest-performance training for today’s ML workloads”  —  As we’ve seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it’s clear that these models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google launches MusicLM, an experimental AI tool that can turn text prompts into several song versions, in its 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google announces new features for cars with native Android including YouTube, Waze, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex by Cisco, and more video games from Google Play  —  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 that shows a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or consider subscribing to Premium  —  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 a video into 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