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Artificial intelligence is steadily expanding into new areas of everyday life, and dating may be next. A new wave of AI “agents” is being developed to simulate personalities, interact with others, and even help users find potential romantic partners – without users having to do the initial work themselves. According to a report by WIRED, researchers and developers are experimenting with systems that create personalised AI agents, or “digital twins,” designed to represent individuals in virtual environments. These agents can interact with others, hold conversations, and assess compatibility at a scale that would be impossible for humans alone. AI Agents…
Amazon is finally ready to let you hang its art-focused TV on your wall. After a splashy debut at CES earlier this year, the Amazon Ember Artline lineup is now officially available for pre-order. Blending tech into your home decor A direct competitor to Samsung’s The Frame TV, the Ember Artline’s primary goal is to disappear into your decor. And it does so with a slim 1.5-inc profile, a matte screen that kills reflections, and a magnetic frame system that makes it look more like an art piece than a black slab on your wall. What really sets the Ember…
If you have ever finished an audiobook and wished you owned the book, Spotify has an easy solution. The company now lets you buy physical books directly from its app in the U.S. and the U.K. How to buy physical books in the Spotify app? Spotify has partnered with Bookshop for the sale of paper books. When you browse an audiobook on Spotify, you will now see an option to buy a copy. Once you tap it, Spotify redirects you to Bookshop’s website to complete the purchase. This means Spotify does not process payments itself. Instead, it acts as a…
Love it or hate it, the word “soul” is quite synonymous with From Software, whether that’s Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, its other challenging action games like Bloodborne or Elden Ring, or the Soulslike genre the studio inspired. So it’s no surprise that some players expected “Soulframe” to feature gameplay reminiscent of a Soulslike. After playing the game for several hours myself – and if you’re a Game Informer subscriber, you will be receiving a Soulframe Preludes code to check it out for yourself, too – I can confidently say that while there is a slight tinge of that Soulslike feel, I wouldn’t place…
Amazon just refreshed one of its most popular streaming devices. The new Fire TV Stick HD is officially here, and it is the slimmest Fire TV device Amazon has ever made. At $34.99, it is available for preorder right now and ships April 29. What’s new with the Fire TV Stick HD and how is it different? The new model is about 30% slimmer than the previous generation. It can fit easily in the narrow space behind your TV and works with a short USB-C cable that plugs directly into your TV’s USB port for power. So you don’t need…
Adobe has quietly been building something big inside Firefly, its all-in-one creative AI studio. And today, the company is ready to show it off. Meet Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational tool that lets you describe what you want to create and then handles the execution across Adobe’s entire app ecosystem, including Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, and Illustrator. You no longer need to bounce between the apps and can handle all the edits with simple text prompts. The idea is simple. You bring your vision and creative judgment, give Firefly a prompt, and the assistant will figure out the rest. So…
Google has released Android Canary build 2604 (ZP11.260320.007), containing a few new experimental features. Before anything else, a quick heads up: Canary builds are not meant for everyday use. They can be buggy and unstable, and features introduced here might not always make it into the final stable release. If you’re a developer who wants to test new builds and get ahead of upcoming changes, Canary is right up your alley. But if you are a regular Android user, I would recommend installing it only on a secondary device, and not your daily driver Android phone. Android Canary 2604 is…
Wireless earbuds have already become the default wearable for a lot of people. This is why this new research feels more interesting than yet another smart glasses demo. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed VueBuds, a prototype system that adds tiny cameras to off-the-shelf wireless earbuds so users can ask an AI model about whatever is in front of them. How does this work? In the example used by the university, someone can look at a Korean food label and ask for a translation, then hear the answer back through the earbuds. VueBuds captures low-resolution black-and-white still images…
Middle-earth is officially heading back to the big screen, and the latest casting news from CinemaCon suggests a mix of nostalgia and fresh energy. Warner Bros. recently revealed the lineup for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, and for those of us who grew up with the original trilogy, there is plenty to recognize. Familiar faces return to Middle-earth According to Variety, Andy Serkis is pulling double duty for this project, stepping into the director’s chair while also returning to the motion-capture suit as Smeagol/Gollum. And he isn’t the only veteran making a comeback. Sir Ian McKellen…
The 3DS release of the charming Tomodachi Life exceeded my expectations. The Nintendo-developed product provided a fun sandbox life-sim experience where things often ended up at their silliest and strangest possible outcomes. It felt like a fun one-off experiment for Nintendo, but I always held out hope for a new entry. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream revives the franchise, and though the technology is vastly improved and it doubles down on the weirdness, Nintendo strips any meaningful social element from the game, creating a massive void for what should be one of its most viral games.After the initial setup, the…