Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, is expanding its suite of AI tools for creators. At this year’s Snap Partner Summit in Santa Monica, California, Snap announced a new feature, Easy Lens, that translates plain-English descriptions into Lenses, Snap’s brand of augmented reality (AR) objects, 3D effects, characters, and transformations for photos and videos. Available in Snap’s … Read more
Meta’s X competitor, Instagram Threads, is making it easier for users to access their fediverse settings from a single URL — or, rather, it’s making it easier on those who like to request that others turn on the fediverse sharing option on their accounts. Now, instead of posting a request that someone please turn on … Read more
Google announced on Thursday that it’s introducing new Wallet updates for travelers and commuters. Most notably, Google Wallet will soon start beta testing the ability to create a Digital ID from your U.S. passport. The ID pass will work at select TSA checkpoints when traveling domestically. In addition to TSA checkpoints, Google says it’s working … Read more
Image: Evercade The new Evercade system update is out and delivers an oft-requested feature: analogue controller support on the Evercade VS home system. Blaze, the company behind the Evercade family, says this has been one of the most requested features since it started including 32 and 64-bit games on its Evercade cartridges. The catch is … Read more
WhatsApp, the most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app in the world with more than two billion users, allows users to exchange pictures and videos that disappear soon after opening. But a bug in how WhatsApp implements its so-called “View Once” feature in its browser-based web app allows any malicious recipient to display and save the … Read more