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Microsoft is giving its Clipchamp video editor an AI upgrade with two new features. Clipchamp users can now employ AI to silence unwanted sounds and remove and cleanly replace background images. The new tools are accessible to Microsoft 365 Insiders but could expand to others as the tech giant seeks to incorporate AI across its media platforms.  These aren’t insignificant features to the average video editor. Unwanted noise is endemic to video production and is often cited as a headache for editors, even though it’s necessary to make sure a…

On the eve of the next Made by Google event, a new leak for the Pixel Buds Pro 2 has surfaced showing off several specs, including an important hardware component.  Notable industry leaker MysteryLupin on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) states the devices will feature a Tensor A1 chip, which delivers enhanced Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), that’s rumored to be twice as powerful as the previous generation. In our review of the original Pixel Buds Pro, we found the ANC performance to be “respectable.” However, not everyone feels…

ChatGPT might sometimes seem able to think like you, but wait until it suddenly sounds just like you, too. That’s a chance brought to light by the new Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT, specifically the more advanced GPT-4o model. OpenAI released the system card last week explaining what GPT-4o can and can’t do, which includes the very unlikely but still real possibility of Advanced Voice Mode, imitating users’ voices without their consent. Advanced Voice Mode lets users engage in spoken conversations with the AI chatbot. The idea is to make…

There have been plenty of rumors surrounding the upcoming Intel Panther Lake processor launch, including that it’s set to arrive in 2025. But now new rumors are painting a different story — one that confirms prior whisperings of Panther Lake being mobile-only and that a new series, the Nova Lake, will be Arrow Lake’s true successor. A new rumor from leaker Jaykihn on X (and reported on by Wcctech) alleges that Nova Lake-S will replace Arrow Lake-S as the latest desktop processor. In recent years, Intel has changed its strategy…

Squid Game season two is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on December 26 but if that’s too long to wait then you can get an early sneak peek at the show’s players (both new and returning characters) in a new teaser trailer that was released today, August 12. Check it out below.    Squid Game: Season 2 I Welcome Players I Netflix – YouTube Watch On In the short trailer, we see the return of Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee-Jung jae, gazing into the lens with a dark backdrop and…

The iPhone 16 and its siblings are sure to boast numerous upgrades over the iPhone 15, but according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – a journalist and Apple leaker with a strong track record – these phones might not be a massive improvement on their predecessors overall. To illustrate this prediction, Gurman has highlighted what he considers to be the six main upgrades that are apparently coming to the iPhone 16 line. You’ll find all six rumored upgrades below, along with our thoughts (and Gurman’s) on whether they’re significant or not.…

Many of the recent changes to Windows 11’s Start menu that we’ve seen tested by Microsoft have been getting hot and cold reactions, but this hasn’t deterred the software giant from continuing to experiment with the menu, and it’s currently trialing a new ‘Category’ layout that we learned about last month.  This layout is an alternative to the standard presentation of the ‘All apps’ section of the Start menu, alongside a new grid-based layout that Microsoft has also been testing. We’ve already seen a hint of this new Category view,…

The president of CrowdStrike has accepted the award for ‘Most Epic Fail’ at the 2024 ‘Pwnie Awards’, hosted at this year’s DefCon hacking conference. Per TechCrunch, CrowdStrike was already in attendance at the cybersecurity gathering, manning one of the largest booths at the event, and dispatching free t-shirts and action figures to attendees/ Fans have already been leaping to the defence of the company that put millions of Windows machines out of action pending a fix to be manually applied in safe mode, calling them a “class act” after CrowdStrike…

Ads are a major problem on the internet today. Many websites have focused too much on ads above content, inadvertently ruining the user experience. For example, you can find websites with half ads and half content, making them annoying to scroll through. You might also encounter a website with poorly placed ads covering valuable content. Fortunately, there’s a solution to this pressing issue: ad blockers. These tools disable ads from their roots and let you surf the web without encountering obnoxious ads. Wipr is one of the best ad-blocking solutions…

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new malicious campaign that hijacks web browsers to steal sensitive data. A report from ReasonLabs outlined how the campaign has so far hit around 300,000 Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users by creating websites offering fake software for free, including the likes of Roblox FPS Unlocker, YouTube, VLC media player, Steam, or KeePass.  Victims who navigate to these websites and download the fake software instead get a trojan malware that’s been around since 2021. The malware installs add-ons and extensions that hijack search engines, and…