LG’s refreshed xboom by will.i.am lineup pushes hard on party power, AI audio smarts, and battery endurance — promising up to 220W of output, AI-powered vocal removal and tuning, and as much as 35 hours of playback on a single charge across four new portable models. Background
LG has steadily...
LG’s latest expansion of the xboom by will.i.am family is more than a refreshed product line — it’s an explicit bet that AI-driven personality, battery endurance and flexible form factors will define portable audio in 2026.
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LG’s xboom collaboration with will.i.am launched publicly in...
Microsoft’s Copilot quietly swapped its productivity blazer for a holiday sweater this season — the “12 Days of Eggnog Mico” series turned the expressive Copilot avatar Mico into a festive persona that generated short, shareable outputs including jokes, recipes, and, notably on Day 11...
OpenAI is quietly building a generative music tool that can create full musical accompaniments from short text descriptions or audio snippets — a move that would mark the company's deliberate re-entry into AI music after earlier experiments and put it squarely in competition with Google, Suno...
Google’s Gemini Live is rapidly moving from an experimental demo into a genuinely helpful, multimodal assistant you can point at the world — and that means users are already inventing clever, occasionally eyebrow-raising ways to put the feature to work, from helping at board games to packing a...
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 “25H2” arrives as an unusually quiet sequel: more maintenance than milestone, with a few welcome conveniences — like a native sudo command and archive creation in File Explorer — offset by a lack of headline-grabbing features and some missed opportunities that power users...
Some of the world’s largest AI labs stand accused of quietly harvesting the world’s recorded music to teach their models how to sing, riff and mimic the voices and styles of living artists — and a newly public dossier compiled by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has...
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Microsoft’s relentless march toward integrating AI, enhanced productivity, and smarter workflows within its Microsoft 365 suite reaches a new milestone as the company unveils a slew of powerful features for its flagship apps including Word, Teams, and Outlook. The latest wave of updates...
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As hybrid collaboration increasingly reshapes both educational and professional spaces, the quest for reliable, easy-to-manage audio systems that work at scale—and with a range of conferencing platforms—has intensified. Large classrooms, meeting spaces, and multi-purpose training rooms present...
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The escalating tension between tech innovation and personal privacy has entered a new phase, punctuated by billion-dollar legal settlements, bold product launches, and seismic policy changes. Leading headlines around the world is Google’s agreement to pay Texas $1.4 billion to resolve...
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Usually, when a fresh AI tool launches, it whispers humble ambitions like "streamline your workflow" or "make animation easier." But then some upstart like ShengShu storms in, Vidu Q1 in tow, and throws down the gauntlet: “Here’s a full-stack browser-based studio. Movie transitions, foley...
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It sounds like science fiction: you type in nearly anything—a dense academic article, a vacation idea, the most recent mind-melting tech conference recap—and, within seconds, you’re greeted not with an essay, but with an upbeat, back-and-forth podcast, staged by two impossibly game virtual...
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Top Ways Generative AI Is Transforming the Creative World
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant concept reserved for sci-fi fantasies; it has cemented its role as a game-changer across the creative industries. Especially in recent years, generative AI—AI that can create text...
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