Published on: 2025-06-05 16:52:20
WhatsApp is getting its own version of OpenAI’s Custom GPTs, Google Gemini’s Gems, and so on. These are custom-made chatbots that can be created without a single line of code and with whom the user can have conversations afterward. Here’s how it’s going to work. WhatsApp to join Meta’s AI Studio offerings According to WABetaInfo (via Tecnoblog), the feature is currently rolling out to a small number of WhatsApp beta testers on iOS and Android. It introduces a new section called “AI Studio,” w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 08:40:34
Video generation is all the rage right now. While last month was all about Google’s Veo 3, which has already threatened to deepfake all of YouTube, make incoherent action movies, and automate game development, the fun (or horror) hasn’t stopped there. Just this week, OpenAI announced that it’s making its Sora video generation model available for free via Bing, which is big news for anyone that’s interested in testing out a video generator but doesn’t actually feel the need to pay for one yet. An
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 00:12:33
use your iphone as an airplay receiver made by neon443 testflight AirAP is a fully native AirPlay server, written in Swift, for iOS. Essentially, AirAP allows you to use your iPhone as an AirPlay receiver in iTunes or on your Mac, meaning that you can use your iPhone to play your device's sound. Have you ever wanted to stream audio from your Mac, Apple TV, or another iOS device to your iPhone? AirAP makes this possible by implementing a full AirPlay server that runs natively on iOS. Once
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 04:00:00
Independent games studio Emptyvessel announced it has raised $11 million to date, including its earlier seed round and latest Series A round. The game’s debut trailer has attracted over 1.9 million views on YouTube and work continues to progress towards a future gameplay reveal. The new funds will fuel ongoing development of the studio’s inaugural title, Defect, and expansion of the team. The Series A lead investors include NCSoft and 1AM Gaming, along with Black Phoenix Games, Anurup Joseph,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 16:00:17
ZDNET's key takeaways The H2O Audio Tri Pro multi-sport bone conduction headphones are available now for $199. They support locally-stored music, in-water audio sounds fantastic, and the headset has a high quality build. At $179, the headset is not the cheapest pair on the market, and the battery life is limited to roughly four to five hours. View now at Amazon While the H2O Audio Tri Pro are available on the H2O site, Amazon currently only carries the newer model of these headphones, the H2O
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 00:03:11
People Can Fly, the developer of Outriders and Gears of War: Judgement, announced Monday that its ending development on two of its upcoming games due to issues with its publisher and an inability to secure funding to continue development. As part of this decision, People Can Fly will be forced "significantly regroup" and "scale down [its] teams," the studio's CEO Sebastian Wojciechowksi shared in a statement on LinkedIn. The statement doesn't elaborate on how many staff will be impacted by the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 04:41:08
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. It’s the week of Summer Game Fest, so I’m mental
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 16:18:51
OLED TVs are among the most popular options these days, and with good reason. They offer some of the best picture quality you can buy, with millions of self-lit pixels capable of incredibly sharp contrast and detailing as well as bolder, more lifelike colors over their Mini-LED and QLED counterparts. In addition, some OLED TVs have stellar audio quality as well. Sony and LG have had this market cornered for the longest time, but several new players now have OLED TVs at more affordable prices. S
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 16:59:17
June is here, and with it comes a wave of Father’s Day sales from a range of retailers — including Sonos, which is discounting everything from the Arc Ultra soundbar to the excellent Era 100 smart speaker. The Sonos Ace deal particularly stands out, as the wireless headphones are available from Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos for an all-time low of $329 ($120 off) through Sunday, June 15th. The Sonos Ace offer top-notch sound quality and solid noise cancellation, with an exceptionally natural-sound
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 08:27:37
is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. People Can Fly has announced it has cancelled two in-development projects and will undergo a round of layoffs. “Today we made the very difficult decision to suspend the development of project Gemini and project Bifrost,” wrote People Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski on the studio’s LinkedIn page. “As a result we have to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 12:52:51
In Brief Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment are in talks to license their work to AI startups Udio and Suno, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The deals would set forth a framework for how AI companies compensate artists for their work. The record labels are pushing to receive a small amount of equity in Suno and Udio. Udio and Suno allow aspiring music artists to receive an audio recording via prompts that describe sounds or songs, such as “a mode
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 01:30:00
Moving sucks. Ever since leaving college more than a decade ago, I’ve only lived in apartments, so I’ve had to get good at living small and managing my inventory of belongings before, during, and after a move. A lot of what makes that possible is that I really like decluttering. But it didn’t come naturally — it’s a skill I’ve had to practice, learn, and occasionally fail at. So I thought I might share my experiences here in case you find it helpful for a current or future move. I got good at
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 04:10:12
Upset that all the Memorial Day sales have already come to pass? If you were hoping to upgrade your home entertainment situation be it in your living room, bedroom, basement, or home theater, but missed out on the great deals we saw at the beginning of the month, you are thankfully no out of luck. The next big holiday sale is still some ways away, but there are great deals active right now if you know where to look. Right now, Best Buy has this Insignia 2.0 channel soundbar discounted. Normally
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 04:14:09
ZDNET's key takeaways The LG S95TR soundbar with wireless subwoofer is optimized for the company's OLED TVs with immersive audio features. The LGS95TR may be expensive, but the high-quality audio is easily worth the price. The soundbar has many features, but some of the best ones require a newer LG TV model. View now at Best Buy View now at LG View now at Amazon more buying choices Right now, several retailers, including Best Buy, have the LG S95TR soundbar on sale for $600 off. It's been a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 16:51:12
The Apple Research team has published a pretty interesting study that investigated whether AI models can estimate heart rate from stethoscope recordings, even though they weren’t specifically trained with that purpose in mind. The short answer is: yes. And this is great news. Here’s why. In a nutshell, the team took six popular foundation models trained on audio or speech, and tested how well their internal audio representations could be used to estimate heart rate from heart sound recordings,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 08:37:48
Sonos just launched a rare sale, dropping many pieces of its high-end hardware to their lowest prices of the year. The Sonos Ace headphones particularly caught our eye, as the 27% discount means that the cans are now at their lowest-ever price of $329. Sonos Ace for $329 ($120 off) While it isn’t the first time we’ve tracked a price drop on the Sonos Ace, we’ve never seen them lower than $349, and they were selling at full retail price a couple of days ago. Only the black colorway is subject to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 16:40:23
Movies and TV are nothing without sound. It makes up 50% of the movie-watching experience. You can have the best picture in the world available, but it won’t leave its full impact if the audio is just coming out of the TV. The best way to improve your home audio for watching movies, football games, and big budget TV shows without breaking your own budget is with a soundbar. You’ll find a soundbar to be a significant enhancement to what the built-in speakers you TV is working with which usually s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 09:30:19
ZDNET's key takeaways The Valortiva Octa A1 integrated amp is available on Amazon for $399. This integrated amp is so easy to set up that anyone can be dancing to their favorite tunes in minutes. The Octa A1 amp only produces 35W of power. $399 at Amazon Have you ever wanted to stream music (or a podcast) from your phone to a room filled with people, but found that most Bluetooth speakers just don't get loud enough? What if I told you that you could connect a pair of passive speakers and a s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 04:46:32
is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. EA’s Black Panther game has been cancelled. According to reporting from IGN, EA announced the news via an email to employees. IGN also reports that as a result of the cancellation, Cliffhanger Studios has been shut down. Cliffhanger Studios was a new games studio created to develop Black Panther and run by Kevin Stephens wh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 12:37:31
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Apple’s latest Logic Pro update for both Macs and iPads brings a feature that can rescue you when you’ve just played a perfect take for a song, but forgot to actually hit record. Called “Flashback Capture,” it’s a lot like a gaming feature that lets you retroactively save cool moments by holding down a capture button for a few seconds. If that sounds fami
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 16:57:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuance Audio hearing glasses are available in two styles and colors for $1,200 at participating retailers. They provide a stylish and discreet way to aid mild to moderate hearing loss. However, they provide six to eight hours of battery life and a three-hour charging period, which might frustrate power users. View now at Nuance Audio Since the US Food and Drug Administration approved a category of hearing aids that can be sold to consumers without a doctor's prescrip
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 03:45:00
Wheel of Time Games announced the addition of three game industry veterans to beef up its game studio in Montreal. The additions happen as the company is creating a studio of 200 to 300 people to build a triple-A, open world, role-playing game set in the Wheel of Time universe. Craig Alexander, studio head of Wheel of Time Games, the Montreal-based studio developing the title, appointed Lori Hyrup as studio design director, John Lindemuth as studio art director, and Steve Gray as studio techno
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 04:00:00
Oncade, a new community-driven platform built to increase studio revenue through strengthening player engagement, raised $4 million. Oncade is revamping the game distribution model by shifting from the traditional one-sided platform struggle to a direct-to-consumer, off-platform game store powered by community engagement. By bypassing the “crushing 30% platform fees” charged by platform owners, Oncade said it gives studios the power to reclaim control over their margins and transform their com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 12:30:59
Welcome to the initial installment of Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday (yes, we realize today is Tuesday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays, observations and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 00:00:00
Atlantis Studio has come out of stealth as a privately funded game development studio based in the south of France. Cofounded by industry luminaries Ru Weerasuriya and Nico Augusto, Atlantis Studio brings together a wealth of experience and a passion for crafting innovative gaming experiences. They will focus on immersive games built with Unreal Engine 5. The company is focused on PC and console games. The studio boasts a talented team of game industry veterans who have previously contributed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 00:17:01
Newly independent Amplitude Studios announced today that it has raised €12 million, or around $13.5 million in a Series A funding round. Griffin Gaming Partners led the round with a €10 million investment, with public investment bank Bpifrance also participating. The studio plans to put the funding towards development of its new and in-development titles, including Endless Legend 2, as well as grow out its team and community collaboration. Frankie Zhu, partner at Griffin, said in a statement, “
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 08:11:20
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The best budget AirPods just became an even better deal. Apple's AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation (ANC) just became an even more enticing proposition for those who have been on the fence about picking up a pair. They have dropped to $149 , which is $30 off the regular price. T
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 23:30:30
Google announced Veo 3 last week, the latest version of its AI-powered video generator. The biggest upgrade this time is native audio generation support, offering audio to go with your synthesized video. Veo 3 is currently available to Gemini AI Ultra subscribers or via the Flow filmmaking tool, and we’ve already seen it used to generate some crazy videos. It’s not perfect by any stretch yet, but the technology is making major strides. We also have access to Veo 3, and we want to know what you
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 08:00:04
Prime Video has consistently delivered the sci-fi goods. Considering the intense competition coming from the likes of heavy-hitters like Disney Plus and Netflix, that's an achievement worth noting. The programming landscape may be crowded but the Amazon-owned streaming service has proven its worth in the genre space by producing a slate of high-concept programs -- from the satirical to the downright dystopian. Science fiction is a genre that appeals to a range of tastes. The folks at Prime Vid
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 20:25:24
If you have been eyeing a simple yet powerful and effective way to improve your TV’s audio, the Bose TV speaker Bluetooth soundbar is the perfect choice for you. This compact soundbar is designed to clarify speech and deliver the most immersive listening experience you can ever get, making it ideal for movies, shows, or music. With Bluetooth connectivity and HDMI-ARC compatibility, it offers seamless integration into your existing setup without changing much. For a limited time only, the Bose s
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