YouTube’s AI-powered Jump Ahead feature now available to more people

YouTube’s AI-powered Jump Ahead feature now available to more people

Last updated: May 6th, 2024 at 16:14 UTC+02:00 Back in March, Google started testing the ‘Jump Ahead’ button in the YouTube app for Android by making it available to a small number of people. Pressing this button skips the part of the video that most people have skipped. Well, 9To5Google says that the company is … Read more

PS5 update will let you invite people to multiplayer games through your smartphone’s apps

PS5 update will let you invite people to multiplayer games through your smartphone’s apps

Sony coming to the PS5 that should streamline the whole process of wrangling people into a multiplayer game. The new tool will let you invite people into a game even when they aren’t at a console or using the PlayStation app. The system generates a link, via the app, that can be shared anywhere online. … Read more

Scientists tried to give people COVID — and failed

Scientists tried to give people COVID — and failed

When Paul Zimmer-Harwood volunteered to be intentionally infected with SARS-CoV-2, he wasn’t sure what to expect. He was ready for a repeat of his first brush with COVID-19, through a naturally acquired infection that gave him influenza-like symptoms. But he hoped his immunity would help him feel well enough to use the indoor bicycle trainer … Read more

DNA from ancient graves reveals the culture of a mysterious nomadic people

DNA from ancient graves reveals the culture of a mysterious nomadic people

Scientists sampled genomic data from 279 graves at a cemetery in Rákóczifalva, Hungary, where people of the medieval Avar culture were buried.Credit: Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary Most people know about the Huns, if only because of their infamous warrior-ruler Attila. But the Avars, another nomadic people who subsequently occupied … Read more

Pixel’s new satellite feature could show people where you are on Google Maps

Pixel’s new satellite feature could show people where you are on Google Maps

Recent leaks claim Google is working on further integrating satellite connectivity to their Pixel phones and could introduce support for the tech in Google Maps. This information comes from two industry insiders: AssembleDebug who shared his findings with PiunikaWeb and Nail Sadykov over on Telegram. Beginning with the former, users will apparently be able to … Read more

Why some people always get lost

Why some people always get lost

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Dust storms turned skies yellow on 27 March 2024 in Erenhot, Inner Mongolia.Credit: VCG via Getty Many Asian countries are facing an annual problem: dust storms linked to increased deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. These … Read more

How young people benefit from Swiss apprenticeships

How young people benefit from Swiss apprenticeships

Jitao David Zhang (left) with his apprentices Jannick Lippuner (centre) and Giulia Ferraina.Credit: Matthew Lee Giulia Ferraina and Jannick Lippuner, both 19, are my latest apprentices in the pharmaceutical research unit of F. Hoffmann-La Roche, a global company, at its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Both are in their fourth and final year of vocational education … Read more

Baldur’s Gate 3 publishing head reflects on recent industry layoffs, “it’s incorrect to believe huge companies are run necessarily by incredibly intelligent people”

Baldur’s Gate 3 publishing head reflects on recent industry layoffs, “it’s incorrect to believe huge companies are run necessarily by incredibly intelligent people”

Micheal Douse, head of publishing at Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios, has reflected candidly on the current state of the video game industry and described the ongoing wave of mass layoffs as “an avoidable f***-up.” It comes in a recent interview with gaming newsletter Game File, where Douse said that “it’s incorrect to believe … Read more

People laughed when Google announced Gmail on April 1 2004 — but nobody’s laughing now

People laughed when Google announced Gmail on April 1 2004 — but nobody’s laughing now

Gmail wasn’t the first email service provider, but 20 years on from its launch, it’s certainly one of the most popular ones out there today. If you exclude the Apple email client, which dominates due to the prevalence of iOS, macOS and iPadOS devices, Gmail is number one across the world with a 31.2% share … Read more