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TikTok’s new AI Expand feature lets users zoom out on photos with some interesting results. Whether it be the players from the Kansas City Chiefs on game day or just standard vacation photos, AI lets you see what is beyond the borders.
TikTok quickly became the number one social media platform after arriving in the US six years ago, but one thing they lacked has been a Photo Mode…until now. This mode features a new carousel format available on mobile devices for photo content that lets users easily share high quality images on TikTok.
TikTok user ‘UFO_Brandon’ shares how to win at one type of claw machine with just a simple trick. These machines typically consists of a printed circuit board (PCB), power supply, currency detector, credit/timer display, joystick, wiring harness / loom, gantry assembly, coil and claw assembly. It has three fingers if it is a traditional design, while the ‘UFO’ machines seen in many Asian countries have just two.
Smartwatches are nothing new, but what if there was a custom TikTok Watch designed specifically for playing videos from the social media service? Inventor Dave Bennett has just the creation for you, although it could use some refinement in later versions. Put simply, it uses a microcontroller, called the ESP32 Pico, and was coded using the Arduino Library, while the PCB consists of EasyEDA as well as JLPCB.
At first glance, this actor may actually be able to convince people on social media that it’s actually Tom Cruise, but upon closer inspection, you’ll realize it’s just a very realistic deepfake. The voice acting is almost near perfect, although some parts aren’t properly synced. Where artificial intelligence really shines is the face tracking and lighting, which appear to be immaculate, except for some parts when a pair of sunglasses are removed.
TikTok, the an iOS / Android social media video app for creating and sharing short lip-sync, comedy, as well as talent videos, has revealed its first smartphone, the Smartisan Nut Pro 3. Parent company ByteDance acquired various Smartisan patents and helped them develop the Nut Pro 3, complete with branded features. It features a 6.39-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, an in-display fingerprint scanner, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855+ processor and comes in three storage configurations: 8GB of RAM + 128GB of internal storage, 8GB of RAM + 256GB internal storage, and 12GB of RAM + 256GB of internal storage.