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And now new photo editing tools can be added to the list of Google One membership benefits.
As reported by Android Police, the Android makers are rolling out formerly Pixel exclusive features Portrait Blur, Colour Pop and Portrait Light.
Portrait Blur and Colour Pop can be used to tinker with photos that are lacking depth, while Portrait Light can help you dynamically adjust the lighting in existing pictures.
This latter feature only launched with the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G which were released late last year.
Speaking about these new features Google said: Starting today, we’re bringing some of the editing features currently available on Pixel to Google One members as a part of their membership. These effects transform your portraits using machine learning: with Portrait Blur, you can blur the background post-snap, and with Portrait Light, you can improve the lighting on faces in portraits. Both features work for photos just taken or images from the past even if t
Mac users can go to Settings, General, Appearance and switch between Light, Dark and Auto.
If you re one of the lucky ones then you should see things change the next time you boot up your browser and head to Google s search page.
Dark Modes have become increasingly popular over the years with both PCs and smartphones now allowing this look to be selected. Most apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook have also followed with Dark versions of their popular applications.
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Along with looking pretty cool, Dark Mode also offers some battery life savings for any with OLED screens. This is due to the way that OLED panels works, which doesn’t require any power to display jet-black shades of black.
Alexa will try to find the requested track on any service that s available to the recipient.
If no match can be found then a station based on the artist’s name and song title will be suggested.
The music sharing feature will work between Amazon Echo devices as well as the Alexa app.
Unfortunately, if you re in Blighty you want be able to use this feature as it s only available in the US. But if you are based in the States and want to try it out here s how it works.
To take this feature for a spin you just need to enable Alexa Communications.
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Even a small percentage of people in India leaving the app could be costly for WhatsApp.
Latest stats show that India is by far WhatsApp s biggest market with around 340 million people using the service to chat with friends and family.
Speaking about the research, Prabhu Ram, Head, Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CMR told Financial Express Online: “What is remarkable is, most Indians (76%) were aware of the policy.
“WhatsApp has been the default messaging tool for consumers, even more than the normal SMS. It was free, it was intimate, it was something we owned. But now because of this take it or leave it policy, the consumers are becoming aware that it was not free, after all.”
Business digest: New partnership to develop platform for agritech research
14 Feb, 2021 07:00 PM
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Bay of Plenty Times
A freshly inked scientific partnership is developing AI computing power and technology to meet demand from Bay of Plenty-based scientists for faster processing of complex research data. The initiative, a marriage between the needs of PlantTech Research Institute in Tauranga and the expertise of New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), is accelerating innovative research, starting in the agritech sector.
It will remove computer processing bottlenecks that limit the ability for data scientists to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that learn from high volumes of complex and tightly coupled data. It will also dramatically reduce the turnaround times for AI research.