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YouTube Music adds mood filters in ‘activity bar’ for song choices on web

YouTube Music adds mood filters in ‘activity bar’ for song choices on web

by | Jan 30, 2023 | Technology







Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music gets mood filters, i.e. “activity bar” with various moods to tune what appears in the Home feed on the web.


In the web version, it is left-aligned (as on tablets) and appears beneath the app bar, which can be used to switch between Home, Explore, Library, and Search, reports 9to5Google.


For a less Material You look, pill-shaped buttons are used instead of rectangles with rounded corners.


By selecting one of the options — Energise, Workout, Relax, Commute, and Focus — YouTube Music gets updated with a feed of songs, albums, and playlists that match the mood.


Moreover, the music streaming platform also updates the background image at the top.


To go back to the main feed, users will need to click the mood they selected again, said the report.


Meanwhile, YouTube Music is reportedly testing a feature called — “live lyrics” with a tweaked Casting user interface (UI).


Some users have already received the new feature.


A Reddit user noticed a new UI while casting YouTube Music from an Android phone to a Chromecast Ultra.


Instead of album artwork, song name and artist being centred on the screen, they were on the right with left-aligned text.


–IANS


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Microsoft to automatically upgrade Windows 11 old version to new version

Microsoft to automatically upgrade Windows 11 old version to new version

by | Jan 30, 2023 | Technology







Microsoft has announced that users running the original version of Windows 11, known as version 21H2, will be automatically upgraded to the latest version of Windows 11 known as version 22H2 or the “2022 Update”.


“Today we begin to automatically update consumer and non-managed business devices running Windows 11, version 21H2 Home and Pro editions to Windows 11, version 22H2. Since Windows 10, we have been helping Windows users stay up-to-date and secure with supported versions of Windows through automatic updates. We are utilizing this same approach for Windows 11 to help you stay protected and productive,” reads the Microsoft support document.


“The automatic update to Windows 11, version 22H2 will happen gradually starting with those devices that have been using version 21H2 for the longest period of time,” it added.


The company further said that if users want to download Windows 11, version 22H2 right away, they will then need to open Windows Update settings and select Check for updates, if the users’ device is ready, they will see the option to Download and install.


“Customer feedback and analysis show a positive experience with Windows 11, version 22H2,” said Microsoft.


Meanwhile, Microsoft announced that it is beginning to roll out the tabs feature in Notepad for Windows 11.


The company said this update will introduce support for multiple tabs where users will be able to create, manage, and organise multiple files in a single Notepad window.


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Apple to increase App Store prices in UK, other countries on Feb 13

Apple to increase App Store prices in UK, other countries on Feb 13

by | Jan 30, 2023 | Technology







Tech giant Apple has announced that it will increase prices of applications and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store in the UK, Colombia, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria, Norway and South Africa, on February 13, 2023.


However, prices in Uzbekistan will decrease to reflect a reduction of the value-added tax rate from 15 per cent to 12 per cent.


“Periodically, we update prices on the App Store in certain regions based on changes in taxes and foreign exchange rates,” the tech giant said in a blogpost.


“This is done using publicly available exchange rate information from financial data providers to help ensure prices for apps and in-app purchases stay equalized across all storefronts,” it added.


The iPhone maker also announced that the prices in the App Store won’t change in Ireland, Luxembourg, Singapore and Zimbabwe, but the proceeds will be updated to reflect the tax adjustments.


Furthermore, by the end of this month, local developers selling in Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Uzbekistan will see an increase in proceeds.


“And as previously announced, in spring 2023, upgraded pricing capabilities for apps and in-app purchases will provide you 700 additional price points and more flexibility to set prices per storefront, so you can manage foreign exchange rate changes independent of globally equalised prices,” the tech giant said.


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Google introduces AI system that generates music from text descriptions

Google introduces AI system that generates music from text descriptions

by | Jan 30, 2023 | Technology







Google has introduced a new AI system called – “MusicLM” that can generate high-fidelity music in any genre given a text description.


However, the company is fearing the risks, and has no immediate plans to release it, reports TechCrunch.


Google isn’t the first to try generative AI for songs, as there have been other attempts, including Riffusion, an AI that composes music by visualising it, as well as Dance Diffusion, Google’s own AudioML and OpenAI’s Jukebox.


But due to technical constraints and limited training data, none of them has been able to produce songs that are particularly complex in composition or high fidelity.


MusicLM is perhaps the first that can, said the report.


MusicLM was trained on a dataset of 2,80,000 hours of music to learn to generate coherent songs for descriptions of “significant complexity” (eg., “enchanting jazz song with a memorable saxophone solo and a solo singer” or “Berlin ’90s techno with a low bass and strong kick”), as described in an academic paper by US-based Cornell University.


Meanwhile, Google announced that users can now lock their incognito session when they leave Chrome on Android.


“You can require biometric authentication when you resume an Incognito session that was interrupted,” the tech giant said in a blogpost.


Earlier, this feature was available on iOS devices, but now it is rolling out to Android users too.


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WhatsApp working on message reactions within community announcement group

WhatsApp working on message reactions within community announcement group

by | Jan 29, 2023 | Technology







Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature which will allow users to react to messages within the announcement group, on iOS.


The platform is working on an in-app banner to alert users when an update that brings message reactions within the announcement group is available, reports WABetaInfo.


As a result, users will be needed to update the version of the application from the App Store or the TestFlight app to access this new feature.


The ability to react to messages within the community announcement group is currently under development and it is expected to be released in a future update of the iOS application, the report said.


Meanwhile, last week, it was reported that the messaging platform had rolled out some new shortcuts for group admins to quickly and easily perform actions for a certain group participant, on iOS.


The new update will help group admins to quickly manage and communicate with group participants in private, as now the platform supports large groups of up to 1024 participants.


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Twitter removes option to send direct message on Android, iOS: Report

Twitter removes option to send direct message on Android, iOS: Report

by | Jan 29, 2023 | Technology







Micro-blogging platform Twitter has removed the option to send a direct message to another account directly from a profile page on Android and iOS applications, many users reported.


The “DM” button, which usually appears next to the follow and notification buttons, has disappeared without any replacement, reported 9To5Google.


This seems to be the situation for all Twitter accounts and is probably just a small bug.


It is difficult to figure out whether this was done on purpose by the platform given the way the service is now run.


In the meantime, users can still send a direct message by looking up the desired account in the messages tab, the report said.


Last week, Twitter Boss Elon Musk had announced that a higher-priced subscription to the microblogging platform with no ads will be available in the coming weeks.


Meanwhile, Musk also announced that the upcoming update of the platform will make it less mandatory for users to use the “For You” algorithmic timeline.


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