And talking of Google, the corporate despatched out invitations this week for its Google I/O developer convention in Mountain View, California: Could 20 and 21. This occasion is often the place we’ll hear extra particulars concerning the upcoming model of Android—Android 16—together with updates to the Gemini voice assistant and all of Google’s different software program merchandise, from Put on OS to Android Auto.
Monitor Your Meals With Lifesum’s AI Monitoring
In case you’re diabetic or attempting to get your levels of cholesterol down, monitoring your meals might be probably the most troublesome half. What’s in there, precisely? How a lot protein, fiber, or energy are you actually ingesting? Corporations like Oura have begun experimenting with utilizing AI to research your meals. However the extra methods you may log your meals consumption, the better it’s to stay to it.
This week, the diet app Lifesum (iOS, Android) launched multimodal AI-powered meal monitoring through images, textual content, or barcodes. Take an image of your meal, add to the app, and superior picture recognition will shortly break it down and log it for you. Do you have to select to explain it through voice or textual content, language processing fashions will do the identical. You can too scan barcodes for immediate dietary data. We’ve come a good distance from counting the factors in a handful of popcorn, that’s for positive. —Adrienne So
Adobe’s Firefly Generative AI Video App Is Right here
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Adobe claims its Firefly app—which launched in beta this past week—employs the “first commercially secure AI video era mannequin” to market. It was solely out there inside Adobe Premiere Professional earlier than, permitting you to make use of textual content prompts or photographs to generate movies, however now Firefly is accessible as an internet app.
What the corporate means by “secure” is that its Firefly Video Mannequin injects a watermark to indicate components of the video which have been generated by AI for transparency. Adobe additionally says Firefly was skilled on licensed movies, that means the generated video content material is secure to make use of with out worrying about mental property theft. Now you may simply fear about your job being changed in just a few years as soon as it will probably generate full-length movies!
Alongside the brand new net app, Adobe additionally has new subscription choices (after all). The Firefly Customary plan is $10 per thirty days with 2,000 credit, sufficient for 20 five-second AI movies in 1080p. Firefly Professional upgrades that to 7,000 credit, which equals as much as 70 five-second 1080p movies for $30 per thirty days. There will likely be a Firefly Premium plan sooner or later that provides much more credit for “high-volume creators,” however no particulars have been shared but.
Apple TV Involves Android
Android customers pining for Ted Lasso on the go had excellent news this week, because the Apple TV app is lastly out there for Android telephones and tablets. To not be confused with the streaming box of the identical identify, the Apple TV app serves up the model’s Apple TV Plus subscription streaming service, a formidable participant within the crowded streaming market, due to Lasso and different fashionable originals like The Morning Present and the addictive sci-fi thriller, Severance, now in its long-awaited second season.
Different attractive Apple TV content material contains critically acclaimed authentic motion pictures like Coda and Martin Scorsese’s marathon interval movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, and stay sports activities like Friday Evening Baseball, Sunday Evening Soccer, and entry to MLS Season Pass (for a further charge).
Apple TV Plus has been out there throughout all major smart TVs and streaming devices for years, however in that oh-so-Apple method, the app has been conspicuously unavailable for Android customers since its launch in 2019. The most important benefit for Androidian Apple TV Plus subscribers will be the capability to obtain Apple TV sequence and films for offline viewing, a function most different main streamers present. —Ryan Waniata
PSA: Amazon Is Ending Children+ Help for iOS and Android
Amazon introduced final 12 months that Amazon Kids+ would now not be out there for brand new clients on iOS or Android units, and would ultimately be going away for everybody on these platforms. That day is quickly approaching. On March 10, Amazon will now not help the Children+ app for iOS and Android. It is unclear precisely what this implies, however the message is obvious in spirit if not letter: Amazon Children+ requires an Amazon system like a Kindle, Fire Tablet, Echo Speaker, or Fire TV. —Scott Gilbertson
