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The latest Opera Developer build comes with improved AI integration. Opera highlights new tab management options, including the ability to group or close tabs based on your instructions. Commands such as “close all YouTube tabs” or “create tab groups for all open tabs” should work now. Opera says that everything is processed locally on the…
AI is widely used to generate images. There are numerous services available to generate images using AI. All it takes are instructions and the AI generates the image. These images may be published and they may land in search engines. It is often difficult to distinguish them from human-created images. If you do not want…
Arc Browser is a relatively recent web browser that is based on Chromium. About a year ago, the CEO of the Browser Company, Josh Miller, answered a question in a video that has been on the mind of many: how will the company make money with Arc Browser. Part of the answer included revenue opportunities…
MetaGer is a privacy-focused search engine that is run by a German non-profit organization. One of its appeals, apart from its focus on privacy, was that you could run searches across multiple search engines. It also included an interesting feature to search within search results, and to maintain a personal blacklist. Up until now, you…
Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro officially today on YouTube during a tech reveal. It pretty much offers what leakers revealed weeks and months ago already. It is a system that is more powerful than the regular PlayStation 5 and supports AI upscaling. I have to admit that I had plans to buy it. I’m…
Opera Software has launched a new Opera One developer update that introduces a new feature in the browser. Called Dynamic Themes, it is adding animation to themes in the Opera browser. Opera explains: The new dynamic Themes are built using the Shaders technology and are rendered using your device’s GPU. You can configure each Theme…
WhatsApp is working on a new feature that is intended to improve the privacy of its users. The main idea adds two new features to the messaging service: Any WhatsApp user may contact any other user on the platform currently. All that is required for that is a phone number. While the contacted user has…
Android 15 could ship with a taskbar on smartphones. This taskbar works similarly to the one known from tablets or operating systems such as Windows. Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman discovered the taskbar feature recently and has published information about its functionality and current state. Up until recently, taskbars on smartphones were frowned upon. Google, Apple,…
Whenever there is an option to turn on a compact mode, I pick it. The main reason for that is that compact mode removes whitespace so that more content is displayed on the screen at the same time. Google is testing a compact mode for its Chrome web browser. An experimental flag was added in…
In some years from today, search engines will likely look completely different. The traditional way of showing links to websites that match the search query best, at lest according to the search engine that you are using, is being phased-out. The replacement comes in form of AI generations. AI takes the user’s query, generates a…