With the TikTok ban expected to commence on Sunday in the US, another Chinese social media app, called RedNote, soars to the top of the Apple App Store charts. The Supreme Court is likely to uphold a national-security law that will shut down the video-sharing app if it continues to be controlled by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd., later this week.
The Snapchat app is getting its biggest redesign in years, with the main focus being unifying Stories and Spotlight. What the engineers created was a simplified design that provides Snapchatters with a more personal and relevant viewing experience.
It’s official, the rumored Delta Emulator has been released on Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, and it supports NES, SNES, and N64 games. Not only does it support third party Bluetooth controllers, but there are custom on-screen buttons that change with the system if you want to get a game (or two) in while on-the-go.
To those on the ground, the ISS passing overheard appears as a bright point of light moving briskly across the sky. NASA’s Spot the Station app will help stargazers easily locate this bright point of light using a combination of augmented reality and options for capturing videos of the sightings in real-time.
Threads by Instagram images first leaked back in May, but now, it’s officially launching in the US on July 6th to take on rival Twitter. The app is described as a way for communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what will be trending tomorrow, and most importantly for some, your Instagram username can be kept the same without having to register again.
Worried about accidentally buying fake AirPods? There’s now an app to for that, and it’s called FeaturePrint by Alitheon. Using just a photo, the Optical AI software observes and converts the minute surface details into a unique mathematical identity, whether it be gears, jewelry or even circuit boards.
OpenAI has just released the official ChatGPT app for iOS devices and there are several features that make it worth downloading. For starters, the app is completely free to use and automatically syncs your conversation history across devices, Whisper, OpenAI’s open-source speech-recognition system, is also integrated to enable voice input.
You could climb El Capitan in virtual reality, or use the new Wist app to interact with real memories. Simply download the app (currently in beta), record a video, and then watch it be turned into a 3D memory that can be interacted with using a virtual reality headset such as the Meta Quest 2. Think of this as Black Mirror’s The Entire History of You episode brought to life.
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You’ve seen how historical figures would look today, now use MyHertiage’s AI Time Machine app to see how you’d look through different eras. To get started, just upload 10-25 photos of the same individual taken in a variety of settings and poses to have these cast as a protagonist in dozens of predefined themes set in different historical eras.
University of Washington researchers have developed an underwater messaging app that works on existing smartphones and smartwatches. This software utilizes the audio sensors (microphones, speakers, etc.) to enable acoustic underwater communication between these mobile devices.