AI-powered Microsoft Bing, Edge now on iOS, Android mobile devices

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 22, 2023 | Technology

To serve as co-pilot of the web version, Microsoft India on Wednesday announced the preview release of new AI-powered Bing and Edge mobile apps on iOS and Android.

Those users who have access to the preview will be able to utilise the new Bing experience from the homepage of the Microsoft Edge mobile app.

The new Bing app will provide users with the same experience as they do on a desktop.

By tapping on the Bing icon at the bottom of the app, users will be taken to a chat session where they can interact just like they do on a desktop.

“Ask simple or complex questions and receive answers and citations. Choose how you want your answers displayed — bullet points, text, or simplified responses. Explore the Bing chat experience to refine your query or compose an email, poem, or list,” Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft, wrote in a blogpost.

With the introduction of the new Bing mobile app, the tech giant also added “voice search” — providing more versatility in how users can deliver prompts and receive answers from Bing.

Moreover, the company also created a new chat experience, by introducing AI-powered Bing for Skype, to enhance users’ social communications with their friends and family.

“Fluent in more than 100 languages, and capable of translating between them, Bing can offer unique value to this global communications tool,” said the company.

“Available worldwide in preview today, the new Bing in Skype can provide helpful, real-time answers to all your questions,” it added.

The company also said it envisions bringing AI-powered Bing capability to other communications apps, like Teams, in the future.

More than 1 million people signed up on the waitlist to try out the new Bing Search with ChatGPT functionality on desktops in just 48 hours, Microsoft said last week.

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Google to now start calling ‘Chat’ as ‘RCS’ on Messages app: Report

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 22, 2023 | Technology

Launching the ‘Get the Message’ campaign last year to publicise the RCS communication protocol and make it more mainstream, Google has now taken another step in this direction to make RCS (Rich Communications Services) more consumer-friendly by calling ‘Chat’ RCS on its Messages app.

According to SamMobile, users enrolled in the Google Messages beta programme are seeing different terminology used in different places in relation to RCS chat.

The input field at the bottom of RCS-enabled conversations, which previously read ‘Chat message’, now appears to read ‘RCS message’.

The report said that the change can also be seen at the top entry of the in-app setting.

When users open the settings, they will notice additional changes, for example, everything that previously appeared as Chat now appears as RCS chat or simply RCS within the Google Messages app.

The ‘Enable chat features’ option has been renamed ‘Turn on RCS chat’ for users.

Users will also see the ‘Chatting with X’ changed to ‘RCS chat with X’ while they are in an end-to-end encrypted conversation, the report said.

RCS technology brings advanced messaging features such as read receipts, message reactions, and end-to-end encryption (E2E) on a compatible phone.

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Apple’s upcoming iPhone 15 Pro to be equipped with 8GB of RAM: Report

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 22, 2023 | Technology

Tech giant Apple’s upcoming iPhone 15 Pro smartphone will come equipped with 8GB of RAM, the media reported.

The tech giant will “bump up the capacity and specifications” of RAM for the upcoming iPhone 15 models, reports MacRumors.

For comparison, the iPhone 14 Pro models come equipped with 6GB of RAM.

However, the standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus smartphones are expected to remain at 6GB of RAM, but might be upgraded to faster RAM, as iPhone 14 Pro models were last year.

Increased RAM could benefit multitasking on the iPhones by enabling more applications to run in the background at once.

The RAM upgrades will improve overall performance along with the expected A17 Bionic CPU for iPhone 15 Pro models.

The tech giant is likely to launch the iPhone 15 series at a press event in September this year, the report said.

Last month, it was reported that the iPhone 15 Pro models will feature ultra-thin, curved bezels compared to the iPhone 14 Pro models.

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YouTube Music now let users create artist-based customise radio stations

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 22, 2023 | Technology

Google is rolling out a new feature to music streaming service ‘YouTube Music’, which will allow users to create their own custom stations based on specific artists.

Users can access the new “Radio Builder” feature by navigating to the “Your music tuner” section of the YouTube Music homepage in the iOS or Android application, reports The Verge.

Users can choose up to 30 artists when creating a custom station, and can also specify whether they want to hear music just from those artists or from artists that are similar to those they have chosen.

Also, users can instruct it to play songs they know, songs they haven’t heard before, or a combination of the two while adding filters to allow users to tune the mix.

According to Google spokesperson Paul Pennington, all users can access the feature, whether they are a paying subscriber or a free user, the report said.

Last December, it was reported that the company was testing this feature.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, the music streaming platform had reportedly rolled out the redesign of the “album view” for Android and iOS.

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Apple Watch band may change colour based on your outfit in future

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 22, 2023 | Technology

Apple is researching how to add a colour change function to the Apple Watch band that matches the wearer’s clothing and alerts the wearer to information.

According to AppleInsider, a newly-granted patent appears to show it doing just that.

Instead of purchasing multiple Watch bands to match different outfits, “Watch Band With Adjustable Colour” suggests that users purchase just one that changes colour.

“Users may desire the ability to customise their watch bands to express variety and style,” according to the newly-granted patent.

“For example, a user may desire a watch band of a particular colour based on the user’s selection of clothing, other wearable articles, environment, or another preference,” it added.

Apple’s patent describes the idea by referring to Watch bands with “electrochromic features”, meaning that “an applied voltage” can cause “a variety of colours and colour combinations to be displayed by a single band”.

Moreover, the report said, while the patent attempts to describe every possible use of its core idea, the central examples revolve around bands that are made from a fabric which is itself woven from filaments.

“Some or all of the filaments can include electrochromic features. For example, one or more of the filaments can include a conductor and an electrochromic layer,” Apple was quoted as saying.

“The electrochromic layer can be electrically connected to the conductor so that voltage applied to the conductor is communicated to the electrochromic layer. The electrochromic layer can include a polymer layer… (which) can react, in the presence of an applied voltage, to change its colour, as described further herein,” it added.

The tech giant further stated that, “the colour selections can be made and adjusted without removing and exchanging the watch band. Accordingly, a variety of colours can be displayed at different times without requiring different watch bands for each colour or colour combination”.

The patent is credited to four inventors, three of whom previously worked on research for touch-sensitive fabrics for a future HomePod — Zhengyu Li, Chia Chi Wu, and Qiliang Xu, the report mentioned.

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Samsung R&D Institute Noida creates key innovations for Galaxy S23 series

by Hansraj Agrawal | Feb 22, 2023 | Technology

Samsung India on Wednesday said that engineers at its R&D institute in Noida have contributed significantly in areas like user experience, health features, performance improvement and user safety for the newly-launched Galaxy S23 series.

Samsung R&D Institute Noida (SRI-N) is among the three such R&D centres in India (the other two are in Bengaluru and Delhi), developing advanced solutions to suit global and local market needs with expertise in the commercialisation of products.

According to the company, SRI-N closely collaborated with teams in Korea and made contributions in breakthrough innovations in the new Galaxy S23 series.

“SRI-N is developing innovative and intuitive mobile experiences that empower, educate and enrich the lives of our customers. Our responsibility to provide innovative technology to our customers has deepened,” said KY Roo, MD of Samsung R&D Institute in Noida.

“With our domain expertise and skill sets, SRI-N is constantly developing innovative products that attract consumers and also shape the future of technology,” he added.

The ‘Galaxy to Share’ app has been developed to allow users to share all customisations and own personalization settings across Galaxy devices in the country.

Similarly, the multi-timer feature enables the user to simultaneously have multiple timers, all at the same time, for different activities and tasks.

The ‘Bedtime Alarm’ feature is also more robust, allowing users to customize alarm timings day-wise.

To enhance communication, the ‘Direct Dial 4X1’ widget has been added to the S23 home screen, for easy accessibility of priority contacts and dial them at a single touch.

SRI-N developed these apps and features to provide the most seamless and intuitive experience to customers while providing a wide scope for customisation, said the company.

SRI-N engineers also contributed towards the improvements in the Samsung Health trackers like Water, Body composition, Cycle tracking, and Heart rate.

Engineers at SRI-N also developed the Emergency SOS and Emergency Sharing feature to enable users to send help messages with their own location information and video recording during an emergency, just by pressing the power button three times.

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