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 Apple is working on a set of smart glasses to rival the Meta Ray-Bans, and now that Meta has debuted glasses that include a display, Apple wants to speed up development on its first-generation model. Work has stopped on the next Vision Pro so that Apple can prioritize getting the glasses to market.
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Sora 2 can create videos of advanced movements—like gymnastics sequences, backflips on a paddleboard, and figure skating triple axels—while generating synchronized sound, dialogue, and effects. It can also insert people or objects from real-life videos, and recreate both their appearances and voices with high precision.
There's also a new iOS app called Sora being launched. The app allows you to create and share AI videos, remix other people's clips, and use the cameos feature to put yourself (or your friends) right into AI-generated scenes. If your cameo is used in a remixed clip, you'll be counted as a co-creator (thus allowing you the power to remove said clip).
OpenAI emphasizes that this launch is focused on responsible use. The feed will encourage creation over passive consumption, and users will also be given tools to personalize their experience and minimize addictive scrolling.
At launch, the Sora app will only b
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Owen Poole goes over the big tech stories of the day, including: YouTube settling a lawsuit brought by President Trump for $24.5 million stemming from account suspensions. Google announcing that Gemini is replacing Google Assistant for its Nest Home line of products along with new Ai-focused security cameras. Amazon is "re-thinking" its Luna cloud-based gaming services to focus more on party games.
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Google is rebranding its Nest Aware plans as Google Home Premium, adding a bevy of Gemini-powered features to the service's two tiers (Standard and Advanced), but it's not chaning the prices for those tiers.
So yes, the Google Home Premium reboot doesn't include any price hikes, but that shouldn't come as a surprise, given that Google just boosted the price of its former Nest Aware tiers back in July—perhaps in anticipation of the coming changes.
In any event, here's the lowdown on what each Google Home Premium tier includes, starting with the least expensive plan.
Standard ($10 a month, also included in Google AI Pro)
30 days of video history for all your cameras: Same as the old Nest Aware Plus plan, Google Home Premium Standard will store 30 days of video events in the cloud.
Intelligent alerts: Another layer of benefits similar to Nest Aware, the Standard tier of Google Home Premium includes alerts for pre-enrolled "familiar faces," garage door open/closed alerts, smoke and carbon monoxide alarm detection, and package alerts. New to the mix are mobile notifications with zoomed-in image previews that focus on the activity that triggered the alert.
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