Amazon's updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you're looking for and search for similar-looking items.
In a blog post, Amazon positions the feature as a way to help you search for items if you can't remember the name of a specific texture or style, like describing a "shirt with a draped collar" if you can't think of "cowl neck." The feature seems like it might come in handy in these kinds of scenarios, but it doesn't really add much if you're just searc …
Amazon will use visual search and AI to show AI-generated product images that match your search queries. The retailer says it will help guide users to products.
As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.
Grazie a una partnership siglata con Google, TIM diventa il primo operatore in Italia a offrire Google AI Pro ai clienti consumer. Due le offerte disponibili: Google AI Pro, con tre mesi di prova senza costi per i clienti di rete fissa e poi un canone di 21,99 euro al mese, e Google AI Plus, disponibile per clienti fissi e mobili a 9,99 euro al mese.
Google AI Pro include i modelli evoluti di Google Gemini, 5 TB di spazio di archiviazione cloud e strumenti per attività più articolate. Tra questi rientrano Deep Research, dedicato alle ricerche approfondite, e NotebookLM potenziato, che permette di trasformare i documenti in podcast audio, video e mappe interattive. Il pacchetto comprende anche Nano Banana, Omni e Flow, oltre a YouTube Premium Lite, Google Home Premium e Google Health Premium.
Google AI Plus ha invece una formula più semplice ed è disponibile per tutti i clienti TIM, sia di rete fissa sia mobile. Il piano include 2 TB di spazio di archiviazione cloud e le principali funzionalità di intelligenza artificiale. Per questa offerta non è previsto un periodo di prova gratuito.
Entrambe le offerte possono essere attivate tramite i canali digitali TIM e nei negozi, senza costi di attivazione o disattivazione. Per i clienti di rete fissa, l’addebito avviene direttamente in bolletta. Per i clienti mobili, Google AI Plus può essere pagato tramite credito telefonico.
One of the best parts about using Android is the good old-fashioned geeky fun that comes with finding new ways to improve your digital environment — and improve your day-to-day efficiency.
Perhaps the most classic example of advanced Android customization, though, is a splendid little somethin’ called the home screen launcher — a fancy way of saying the system that controls how your home screen and app drawer look and work. Your phone has a built-in process that handles that by default, but here in the land o’ Googley matters, you can always replace that with something completely different and make your device adapt to the way you like to work instead of the other way around.
The real beauty of this ecosystem, though, is how much power it gives to Android developers — and subsequently to us, as Android-appreciating animals who embrace these creations! — to experiment and try out all sorts of new concepts. Sometimes, an Android launcher approach speaks to you for its practicality. Other times, it’s just a refreshingly interesting take on how you can get around your phone and get stuff done.
Today, I’ve got a perfect example to share with you. It’s a whole new approach to the Android home screen that’s both unlike anything else I’ve ever seen in this arena and delightfully familiar, in a retro-tech sense.
My friend and fellow enlightened Android phone owner, allow me to introduce you to a creative little concoction called Key Launcher.
Key Launcher has only been out and available on the Play Store for a matter of weeks now, but it’s impressively polished — and, even more important, impressively original while also having some fantastic geek-tech throwback vibes.
To that end, the core distinctive element of Key Launcher is the T9-style dialpad that sits front and center on the lower third of its primary panel. It is quite literally the same set of letter-packin’ numbers and characters you’d see on an old-school phone — or in the dialer of your favorite Android phone app.
width="1024" height="1022" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">The T9 keypad is the centerpiece of the Key Launcher Android home screen experience.
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And in this context, it serves some pretty interesting purposes:
In true T9 style, you can find and access any app or contact on your phone simply by tapping the letter that corresponds with its name — and if you want to narrow down the list even further, you can keep typing letters to refine the results.
You can long-press any number to create and then access a custom “super shortcut” — anything from a single specific action (opening a particular app or calling or texting a certain contact) to launching a group or category of apps or contacts, launching an on-demand pop-up widget or swipeable stack of widgets, or even launching a pre-filled search query.
One press, and poof: Any widget you want — or series of swipeable widgets, even — is right there and ready.
JR Raphael, Foundry
If you tap the # key (known as “pound” in this context — not “hashtag” — for any non-olds among us), you can set up and then access a special “vault” area, where apps are hidden and only visible and accessible with authentication.
And, in an especially nifty touch, you can also just use the dialpad as an actual dialpad — to punch in any number you want to text or call, even if it isn’t already in your contacts.
Your phone dialer is always right in front of you with Key Launcher as your home screen.
JR Raphael, Foundry
Function-packed as all of that may be, that dialpad is still just one piece of the Key Launcher puzzle. Above it sits a grid of app shortcuts that includes both your own pinned favorites and a dynamic selection of recently opened items. And above that is a handy built-in widget that shows a rotating array of upcoming calendar events from your agenda along with the local time and weather — and, in an especially neat twist, can also be customized to act as an interactive stack that lets you flip through your own set of standard Android widgets right then and there as well.
Key Launcher’s primary widget spot can be configured to hold numerous widgets in a swipeable stack.
JR Raphael, Foundry
Speaking of widgets, if you swipe toward the left on Key Launcher’s dialpad, you’ll reveal the launcher’s built-in “Widget Center” panel — which is an entire screen dedicated to holding however many widgets you want, in any configuration you like, for easy ongoing access.
The Widget Center is another interesting way to access widgets within Key Launcher.
JR Raphael, Foundry
A swipe in the other direction will take you to an enlarged view of your active notifications, meanwhile, while a swipe downward can be set to launch either a quick search (of Google or whatever provider you prefer), a search of your apps, or a direct Android app shortcut within any app on your device.
Swiping down on your home screen can trigger a shortcut of your choice.
JR Raphael, Foundry
And if all of that seems like a lot of productivity-boosting possibilities, just wait ’til you get into this thing’s settings. Key Launcher is overflowing with options to customize and control practically every facet of its operation, ranging from basic visuals to the specifics of how the dialpad works and even a toggle for optimizing the interface for left- or right-handed use.
Key Launcher is no slouch when it comes to settings.
JR Raphael, Foundry
Key Launcher is free on its base level with an optional Pro upgrade that unlocks certain limitations and more advanced features. That path is available for five bucks a year or $10 as a single lifetime purchase, and you get a month-long trial the first time you install the app so you can check it out in its full form.
The Pro path adds in lots of extras, but even Key Launcher’s free version is quite pleasant and functional.
JR Raphael, Foundry
Even if you just stick to the free version, though, this thing has an awful lot to offer — and it really is unlike anything else out there, with so many clever and potentially useful touches.
It’s that kind of creativity and constant discovery that keeps Android so interesting and advantageous, even after all this time — and that’s true whether you end up sticking with Key Launcher for the long haul or just giving it a go for a few hours and appreciating the deliciously original thinking it offers.
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