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The French Tennis Federation is paying technology company Bodyguard.ai to provide French Open players with software that uses artificial intelligence to block negative and hateful comments on social media in real time.
Use of the AI program is optional, but it's free for all of the 700 to 800 players in the tennis tournament, including singles, doubles, juniors and wheelchair competitors.

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Apple announced a number of new software updates at its Worldwide Developers Conference, including the iPhone's next software version, iOS 17. While the software brings a lot of new and exciting features to your iPhone, Apple said it won't be available to the general public until the fall.

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If you're buying a new phone, one of the biggest pain points can be ensuring all your data moves over from your old phone. To make this easier, WhatsApp is finally letting you transfer all your chat histories with accompanying media over to a new device without needing a third-party app, as long as your new phone is on the same operating system as the old.

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The next generation of Meta's large language model, Llama 2, is now available for free commercially in a partnership with Microsoft, Meta said Tuesday.

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Meta on Tuesday introduced a new "all-in-one" AI translation model that it framed as a major step forward in the "quest to create a universal translator."
The model, dubbed SeamlessM4T, is able to handle multiple kinds of translations -- including text to speech, speech to text, speech to speech and text to text -- across nearly 100 languages. Unlike other language translators that use multiple models, SeamlessM4T is a single system, which Meta says "reduces errors and delays" and increases the "efficiency and quality of the translation process."

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Get ready for a fresh roster of colors with the iPhone 15. The new iPhone was just announced at Apple's annual September event, where it also introduced the new Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2.

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If 2023 was the year of AI, then it's looking like 2024 will carry on the trend. You may not have tried out one of the many AI chatbots that hit the scene over the last year, but you've probably heard a thing or two about them. How could you not? OpenAI's ChatGPT gained 100 million users in just two months. It took Instagram and TikTok two and a half years and nine months, respectively, to hit that same mark.

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Then there's portrait studio, which turns a picture of a person into artwork. It's silly and fun, and the results are far from accurate. Again, I'm not sure when I'd use this. Here's how Galaxy AI sees me as a cartoon character, a watercolor and a sketch.

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Apple just announced the iphone 16 and iphone 16 plus and I had the chance to try them out. One of the biggest differences that we're seeing on this year's new basic iphones are the addition of two new buttons. One is called camera control. You can use it to launch the camera and control the camera and it's a lot of fun to play around with. The second one will seem familiar to a lot of you who have followed the iphone in recent years and it's called the action button. It was previously exclusive to the pro and now it's also available on the models with the iphone 16 lineup.

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There's so much to iOS 18, it could make your head spin.
You probably already know about some of the major features, like customizing your home screen, formatting text messages and improvements to Maps. There are also all the Apple Intelligence features.
That's not everything that iOS 18 has to offer. There are plenty of new settings that aren't publicized, so they stay under the radar, but that doesn't mean they're not important.
These are all the hidden iOS 18 features you should know about.

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