A bug in the CMF Watch app displays someone else's custom watch face image

Users on Reddit are reporting that while setting a custom watch face on their CMF Watch Pro by Nothing, someone else's watch face is getting set

Since the watch face gets set through the Watch App on your smartphone, it appears in users' phone storage too lol

If you remember, after offering privacy nightmare with its Nothing Chats, Nothing's subsidiary CMF also offers privacy fuckup as it was using the SAME keys for both encryption & decryption

The CMF team has announced that they are investigating this custom watch face privacy fuckup issue

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Google Search is bringing Pixel exclusive Hold for Me feature to both iOS and other Android

Google Search Labs is testing a new “Talk to a Live Representative” feature that will place a call to a business on your behalf, navigate through its phone tree, wait on hold, and then notify you when a real human is being available for you to speak to.

This feature is similar to Pixel's exclusive 'Hold for Me' feature and better than it even as it will actually call a business on your behalf

To “Request a call,” you first specify a reason for why you’re calling.
You then provide your phone number, with Google sending SMS updates. The Request page will note the estimated wait time. After submitting, you can cancel the request at any time.

Supported businesses include a selection of US airlines, telcos, retailers, insurance, and other service companies.

The experimental feature is available in the US via the Google app on iOS and Android and Chrome desktop too

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OpenAI introduced its Text-to-Video model — Sora

OpenAI has announced a new video-generation model named 'Sora'.
Sora “can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.”

The text-to-video model allows users to create photorealistic videos up to a minute long — all based on prompts they’ve written.

The model can also generate a video based on a still image, as well as fill in missing frames on an existing video or extend it.

Sora is capable of creating “complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background,”
The model can understand how objects “exist in the physical world,” as well as “accurately interpret props and generate compelling characters that express vibrant emotions.”

Sora is currently only available to “red teamers” who are assessing the model for potential harms and risks & to some visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to get feedback

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Nvidia introduces 'Chat with RTX' Chatbot

Nvidia has announced an early version of Chat with RTX, a demo app that lets you run a personal AI chatbot on your PC.

You can feed it YouTube videos & your own documents to create summaries and get relevant answers based on your own data.

It all runs locally on a PC, and all you need is an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM.

Chat with RTX installs a web server and Python instance on your PC, which then leverages Mistral or Llama 2 models to query the data you feed it.
It then utilizes Nvidia’s Tensor cores on an RTX GPU to speed up your queries.

Chat with RTX app is around 40GB in size and the Python instance takes up around 3GB of RAM

Chat with RTX also does NOT remember context, so follow-up questions do not work.

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Google's 'MusicLM' text-to-music creator

Google's MusicFX is an experimental technology that allows you to generate your own music.

It is powered by Google's MusicLM and uses Google DeepMind’s novel watermarking technology, SynthID to embed a digital watermark in the outputs.

You can “Describe any musical ideas and hear it come to life with Al.” For example:
• Create a melody for ambient music I can study to
• Create a soulful jazz song for a dinner party
• Create an industrial techno sound that is hypnotic

Google says you can be “very descriptive” with this generator.
You can specify instruments like electronic or classical, as well as the “vibe, mood, or emotion” you’re aiming for.

Its currently available in the USA only, so please use a VPN to access and try it.
https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-fx

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JUST IN: Snapdragon-powered Pixel Phones are Dead

The Pixel 5 & 5a are the last batch of Snapdragon-powered Pixels & now Android 15 will NOT be supported by them

Android 15 only supports Pixels released after late 2021 aka the Tensor-powered Pixel series, sealing the fate of Snapdragon chip support

In our previous poll, 58% of users voted that Google should switch to Qualcomm but, dumping the Qualcomm Snapdragon was one of the BEST decisions Google ever made.

Google can now have full control over the SoC which wasn't possible with Snapdragon
Tensor isn't perfect at all, but its getting better with time

Since the Snapdragon-pixels support will end soon, it will become more difficult for Custom ROMs users to steal pixel features since Google will tie features to the Tensor chip as seen with the 'Best Take' & 'Unblur' features of Google Photos

Google might remove Qualcomm DSP support, thereby making processing speed on GCAM Mods trash, thus taking much more time to process images

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