Snap’s new AI feature lets you create Snapchat Lenses by simply describing them
Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, is expanding its suite of AI tools for creators. At this year’s Snap Partner Summit in Santa Monica, California, Snap announced a new feature, Easy Lens, that translates plain-English descriptions into Lenses, Snap’s brand of augmented reality (AR) objects, 3D effects, characters, and transformations for photos
Read moreSnapchat launches video comments and tools for creators seeking brand deals
At Tuesday’s annual Snap Partner Summit, the Snapchat maker unveiled new tools for creators designed to bring its app more in line with its competitors, like TikTok and Instagram. The company also said it will make it easier for creators to connect with brands for sponsored deals and partnerships. Catching
Read moreExploding pagers kill at least eight and injure thousands in an attack on Hezbollah
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Saida on September 17th. | Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP via Getty Images Thousands of people have reportedly been injured by exploding pagers across Lebanon and Syria in what appears to be an attack targeting Hezbollah
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: It’s never been easier to migrate your Spotify playlists to Apple Music
A pair of friends turned founders, Thomas Magnano and Benoit Herbreteau, have created a service that can make your life a little easier if you want to migrate your music listening between streaming services. They founded their company Soundiiz in 2013, which was originally supposed to be a music search
Read moreiOS 18 lets you replace Apple’s camera app with Halide or Obscura on the lock screen: Here’s how
With iOS 18, users can replace the default camera app on the lock screen with a third-party app. Halide and Obscura — two popular camera apps designed as alternatives to Apple’s default camera app with manual controls and different image processing algorithms — have already taken advantage of that possibility
Read moreArithmetic, Geometry, Harmony, and Gold
I recently ran across a theorem connecting the arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, and the golden ratio. Each of these comes fairly often, and there are elegant connections between them, but I don’t recall seeing all four together in one theorem before. Here’s the theorem [1]: The arithmetic, geometric,
Read moreAirbus Appoints New President for Africa and the Middle East
Airbus has appointed Gabriel Semelas as President of Airbus in Africa and the Middle East, effective January 1, 2025. Gabriel Semelas has over 24 years of experience in the aerospace business, holding various top executive positions. He joins Airbus from his current job as Chief Commercial and Financial Officer of
Read moreArzeda is using AI to design proteins for artificial sweeteners and more
AI is increasingly being applied to protein design, the process of creating new proteins with specific, target characteristics. Protein design’s applications are myriad, but it’s a promising way of discovering drug-based treatments to combat diseases and creating new homecare, agriculture, food-based and materials products. One among the many vendors developing
Read moreOme’s $129 smart knob lets you turn off stove burners remotely
Quick confession: I take a picture of my stove before I leave on long trips. I’ve been living with OCD my entire life, and this is one of the little lifehacks I’ve created to silence that anxiety. In this case, it’s the very real and perfectly understandable concern that I’ve
Read moreHgen draws on lessons from Tesla and SpaceX to drive down the cost of hydrogen
The startup focuses on optimizing the entire widget, from the electrolyzer’s electrodes to the tangle of pipes and pumps that support them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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