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YouTube Shorts’ Dream Screen AI Feature Upgraded With Video Background Generation Capability
YouTube first began testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Shorts dubbed Dream Screen in June. The feature earlier could generate AI-generated image backgrounds for the vertical short video format, but on Thursday, the company announced a new capability. Dream Screen can now generate video backgrounds alongside image backgrounds all...
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Indonesia Bans Sales of Google Phones Days After Blocking Apple's iPhone 16
Indonesia has imposed a ban on the sale of Google Pixel smartphones, citing regulations that mandate the inclusion of at least 40 percent locally produced components. This move comes shortly after the prohibition of Apple's iPhone 16 sales in the country, for a similar reason.
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Google Wins Trademark Lawsuit Over YouTube Shorts, Court Rules No Confusion
Google on Thursday defeated a trademark lawsuit brought by a British short film company over YouTube's short video platform Shorts, with London's High Court ruling there was no risk of confusion for consumers.
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Google Shopping Page Redesigned With Infinite Scroll, Video
Google Shopping has been redesigned as the company seeks to distinguish its platform from e-commerce sites such as Amazon. The updated Google Shopping webpage includes infinite scrolling and a new home page that shows a personalised feed of products, reviews and auto-playing video shorts from YouTube.
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YouTube Update Brings Sleep Timer, Resizable Miniplayer And More Features
YouTube is being updated with a sleep timer, a resizable miniplayer, and the ability to fine-tune playback speed. These updates will arrive on the web interface, the YouTube mobile and TV apps, and YouTube Music. Other features expected to arrive later this year include the ability to vote on videos in playlists, creator badges, and an updated in...
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Google Lens Updated With Voice Search Feature, Ability Find Similar Products While Shopping
Google Lens recently received a short video feature that will allow users to upload a video and get a response to their queries via AI Overviews. However, this is not the only new update coming to the visual lookup feature. In an announcement on Thursday, the Mountain View-based tech giant revealed that Lens was also getting updated with a voice se...
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Gemini in Gmail App Adds Contextual Smart Replies Feature for Google Workspace Users
Gemini in the Gmail app is getting a new feature which will let users quickly respond to emails with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed contextual smart replies, the feature allows users to respond to incoming emails with detailed replies. The AI can process the content of the email and contextually generate a reply. Notably, the sma...
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YouTube Reportedly Rolling Out 'Pause Ads' Widely After Strong Advertiser Response
YouTube is reportedly rolling out pause ads widely to users and advertisers. The video streaming giant first announced its plans to show these ads that appear when a video is paused last year. Many netizens have reported seeing these ads, expressing concerns over this move. These appear as a pop-up ad and can either be a static image or a short loo...
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YouTube Brings AI-Powered Video Generation Capabilities to Shorts, AI Reply Suggestions in Comments
YouTube is introducing several new features to its video streaming platform, and a few of them will be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). On Wednesday, the platform held its Made on YouTube event and the biggest announcement was the integration of a new AI Video model to let creators generate backgrounds and six-second-long videos. The AI mod...
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YouTube Music Spotted Testing AI-Generated Custom Radio Station Feature
YouTube Music is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to generate unique radios with the help of a tool. The new feature works with textual prompts, meaning users can write what they want to listen to, and the AI generates a radio with similar songs in it. Earlier users could only create a radio based on a song o...
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YouTube Reportedly in Talks With Record Labels for Deal to Train AI Song Generator
YouTube is reportedly in talks with multiple record labels to strike a deal that will let it use copyrighted songs to train its artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The Google-owned platform is said to be working on several new AI features that it plans to release by the end of this year. Last year, the video streaming platform announced testing an ...
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YouTube Tests AI-Powered Comment Topics Summariser Feature for Shorts on Mobile
YouTube is testing its AI-based comment topic summariser feature for Shorts. The experimental feature will only show up on the video streaming giant’s iOS and Android apps for now and will be available on a limited number of Shorts with large comment sections from select creators. The feature sorts the comment section into popular topics based on...
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YouTube Testing a Dream Screen Feature for Shorts That Will Generate Images for Green Screens
YouTube is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its minute-long vertical video format, Shorts. Dubbed Dream Screen, this feature will add a custom green screen image generated by AI to the videos. This feature is likely aimed at users who prefer to use creative backgrounds to stand out in the videos or be thematically aligned with...
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Google I/O 2024: Google Unveils AI Video Generator Veo, Takes on OpenAI’s Sora
Google I/O 2024’s keynote session was a 112-minute-long affair where the company made several major announcements focused on artificial intelligence (AI). The announcements ranged from new AI models to integration of AI into Google products, but perhaps one of the most interesting introductions was Veo, an AI-powered video generation model, that ...
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Google Reportedly Experimenting With Short Videos Filter to Show Content from TikTok, Reels, More in Search
Google is reportedly working on a feature for its Google Search app for Android where it will let users find all the short video content in one place. As per the report, the Google Search app could get a Short Video filter for content from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and others.
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YouTube Shorts’ Dream Screen AI Feature Upgraded With Video Background Generation Capability
YouTube first began testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Shorts dubbed Dream Screen in June. The feature earlier could generate AI-generated image backgrounds for the vertical short video format, but on Thursday, the company announced a new capability. Dream Screen can now generate video backgrounds alongside image backgrounds all...
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Indonesia Bans Sales of Google Phones Days After Blocking Apple's iPhone 16
Indonesia has imposed a ban on the sale of Google Pixel smartphones, citing regulations that mandate the inclusion of at least 40 percent locally produced components. This move comes shortly after the prohibition of Apple's iPhone 16 sales in the country, for a similar reason.
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Google Wins Trademark Lawsuit Over YouTube Shorts, Court Rules No Confusion
Google on Thursday defeated a trademark lawsuit brought by a British short film company over YouTube's short video platform Shorts, with London's High Court ruling there was no risk of confusion for consumers.
-
Google Shopping Page Redesigned With Infinite Scroll, Video
Google Shopping has been redesigned as the company seeks to distinguish its platform from e-commerce sites such as Amazon. The updated Google Shopping webpage includes infinite scrolling and a new home page that shows a personalised feed of products, reviews and auto-playing video shorts from YouTube.
-
YouTube Update Brings Sleep Timer, Resizable Miniplayer And More Features
YouTube is being updated with a sleep timer, a resizable miniplayer, and the ability to fine-tune playback speed. These updates will arrive on the web interface, the YouTube mobile and TV apps, and YouTube Music. Other features expected to arrive later this year include the ability to vote on videos in playlists, creator badges, and an updated in...
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Google Lens Updated With Voice Search Feature, Ability Find Similar Products While Shopping
Google Lens recently received a short video feature that will allow users to upload a video and get a response to their queries via AI Overviews. However, this is not the only new update coming to the visual lookup feature. In an announcement on Thursday, the Mountain View-based tech giant revealed that Lens was also getting updated with a voice se...
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Gemini in Gmail App Adds Contextual Smart Replies Feature for Google Workspace Users
Gemini in the Gmail app is getting a new feature which will let users quickly respond to emails with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed contextual smart replies, the feature allows users to respond to incoming emails with detailed replies. The AI can process the content of the email and contextually generate a reply. Notably, the sma...
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YouTube Reportedly Rolling Out 'Pause Ads' Widely After Strong Advertiser Response
YouTube is reportedly rolling out pause ads widely to users and advertisers. The video streaming giant first announced its plans to show these ads that appear when a video is paused last year. Many netizens have reported seeing these ads, expressing concerns over this move. These appear as a pop-up ad and can either be a static image or a short loo...
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YouTube Brings AI-Powered Video Generation Capabilities to Shorts, AI Reply Suggestions in Comments
YouTube is introducing several new features to its video streaming platform, and a few of them will be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). On Wednesday, the platform held its Made on YouTube event and the biggest announcement was the integration of a new AI Video model to let creators generate backgrounds and six-second-long videos. The AI mod...
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YouTube Music Spotted Testing AI-Generated Custom Radio Station Feature
YouTube Music is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to generate unique radios with the help of a tool. The new feature works with textual prompts, meaning users can write what they want to listen to, and the AI generates a radio with similar songs in it. Earlier users could only create a radio based on a song o...
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YouTube Reportedly in Talks With Record Labels for Deal to Train AI Song Generator
YouTube is reportedly in talks with multiple record labels to strike a deal that will let it use copyrighted songs to train its artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The Google-owned platform is said to be working on several new AI features that it plans to release by the end of this year. Last year, the video streaming platform announced testing an ...
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YouTube Tests AI-Powered Comment Topics Summariser Feature for Shorts on Mobile
YouTube is testing its AI-based comment topic summariser feature for Shorts. The experimental feature will only show up on the video streaming giant’s iOS and Android apps for now and will be available on a limited number of Shorts with large comment sections from select creators. The feature sorts the comment section into popular topics based on...
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YouTube Testing a Dream Screen Feature for Shorts That Will Generate Images for Green Screens
YouTube is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its minute-long vertical video format, Shorts. Dubbed Dream Screen, this feature will add a custom green screen image generated by AI to the videos. This feature is likely aimed at users who prefer to use creative backgrounds to stand out in the videos or be thematically aligned with...
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Google I/O 2024: Google Unveils AI Video Generator Veo, Takes on OpenAI’s Sora
Google I/O 2024’s keynote session was a 112-minute-long affair where the company made several major announcements focused on artificial intelligence (AI). The announcements ranged from new AI models to integration of AI into Google products, but perhaps one of the most interesting introductions was Veo, an AI-powered video generation model, that ...
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Google Reportedly Experimenting With Short Videos Filter to Show Content from TikTok, Reels, More in Search
Google is reportedly working on a feature for its Google Search app for Android where it will let users find all the short video content in one place. As per the report, the Google Search app could get a Short Video filter for content from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and others.
