Apple’s vow to support the messaging system could possibly kill the mobile phone
Apple said that support for Rich Communications Standard (RCS) will be added to iOS in the later half of next year. RCS is a new messaging standard based on the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, which requires firms to make their services interoperable with other platforms. RCS allows users to share photos and videos, as well as read receipts, among other things.
The creators of TikTok have been challenged by shorter shorts with music-making artificial intelligence
YouTube has rolled-out a new feature called Dream Track that can auto-generate music tracks from text or hummed tunes. Called ‘Lyria’, the feature was created by Google’s DeepMind. Users can enter prompts like ‘a ballad about how opposites attract, upbeat acoustic’ to create a track. When a track is changed, it’ll carry a SynthID watermark that is inaudible to the naked ear.
There is an experimental evaluation of a diabetes prevention programme
A study found that a structured diet and physical activity programme can help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The study, which analysed data from the US, Canada, and New York, did not look into whether participants went onto develop type 2 diabetes, but even small drops in blood sugars have been found to improve cardiovascular health.
The classroom has been Builderalld to explain how LLMs could change education
US’ Arizona State University has created a toolbox for its faculty members to use LLMs in education. After an initial narrow release for testing, ASU launched a toolbox in October that enables its faculty members toexperiment with LLMs in education through a web interface. An assistant was created based on GPT-4 in April by an education technology firm.
The weather forecaster by DeepMind is superior to a global standard
DeepMind’s graph neural network (GNN) model GraphCast has outperformed HRES and other standard weather forecasts on 90% of weather predictions, a study said. “In the troposphere, which is…part of the atmosphere closest to surface that affects us all the most, GraphCast outperforms HRES on more than 99% of the 12,00 measurements we’ve done,” DeepMind’s Remi Lam said.
The creators of YouTube are going to begin cracking down on fakes of musicians
TikTok has announced it’ll label videos that contain AI-generated content, including deepfakes, depicting “realistic” scenes and prohibiting them in certain situations. Videos that contain deepfakes will also not be allowed to be used in public or commercial endorsements on the short-form video app. TikTok added that AI labels will be more prominent on some videos dealing with “sensitive topics”.
There was a new road map for handling weaponized artificial intelligence
US’ Defence Intelligence Service CISA has said that it is “focussed on security over speed” in the development of AI-powered defence capabilities. It added that attackers will be using these tools and some already are, so it’s necessary and urgent for the US government to utilise them as well. CISA is part of the US State Department’s National Security Council.
A single injection of a Gene-Editing treatment was found to have a lower cholesterol
British drugmaker Verve has claimed it’s made the world’s first gene-editing drug which could lower cholesterol. The drug alters adenine bases in the body and another that recognises PCSK9. It swaps a base with a guanine base to turn off PCSK9, preventing liver cells from producing PCSK9 proteins. Verve aims to select the best therapeutic dose from the trial next year.
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Amazon has announced a new edition of its Fire TV series, the ‘Fire TV Omni’, which will feature an Ambient Mode that shows artwork when not in use, like the newer Fire TV Omni series. Users can also enjoy music and videos from their devices while not in use. Further, they will be able to watch movies, TV shows, as well as other content, for free.
The Apple MacBook Pro 16 M3 Max has the most power
Apple’s new MacBook Pro 16M3 Max, which has 12 CPU cores and four efficiency cores, gives “the most power for the most money”, as per a review. The reviewer compared it to the MacBook Pro 16M3 Pro 14 with eight CPUs cores, four efficiency and 10 processing units, and the M2 Max MacBook Pro 16 with 12 CPU cores, four efficiency and 38 processing units.