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#Adobe's Gen AI assistant for PDF 🅰️Adobe Acrobat, the popular PDF management software, has launched a new feature called AI Assistant in beta. This feature uses generative AI to help users interact with documents more easily and efficiently. Users can ask questions, get summaries, and receive recommendations from the AI Assistant, which can understand & generate natural language. The AI Assistant is 🦾powered by Adobe Sensei, the company's AI and machine learning platform, and is trained on millions of PDF documents. 🙂

Adobe claims that this feature will "completely transform the digital document experience" and enable users to "easily chat with documents".

The AI Assistant is currently available for paying users of Acrobat DC, Acrobat Reader & Acrobat web. #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker @Hubcollabs

Anatsa banking Trojan reappeared through apps on #Google Play Detected by ThreatFabric in November 2023, the campaign exhibits sophisticated tactics and impacts countries like Slovakia, Slovenia, and Czechia. Exploits AccessibilityService to install malicious payloads, with a unique focus on Samsung devices. 🛑 Google Play has removed the five identified apps related to the Anatsa campaign. These include Phone Cleaner – • File Explorer (com.volabs.androidcleaner) • PDF Viewer – File Explorer (com.xolab.fileexplorer) • PDF Reader – Viewer & Editor (com.jumbodub.fileexplorerpdfviewer) • Phone Cleaner : File Explorer (com.appiclouds.phonecleaner) • PDF Reader : File Manager (com.tragisoap.fileandpdfmanager). #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

A month ago, Halo Infinite, the first-person shooter game, reportedly cancelled a Battle Royale project. And now, dataminers discovered "Inheritor" -- a popular community-made BR map -- in the game files. It's being tested for Multiplayer, and may release w/ its own playlist. #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

DICE Award Winners (voted on by developers and industry experts): • GOTY - Baldur's Gate 3 • Best Art Direction - Alan Wake 2 • Adventure GOTY - Tears of the Kingdom • Action GOTY - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Most awards: • Spider-Man 2 (6 awards) • Baldur's Gate 3 (5 awards) #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

Respawn is Developing a First-Person Star Wars Mandalorian Game Respawn Entertainment is developing a first-person StarWars Mandalorian game where you play as a bounty hunter during the Galactic Empire's reign. The game emphasizes mobility and style, with high-speed gameplay, jetpack maneuvers, and various weapons/gadgets. Expect linear levels across different planets in the Star Wars universe. Release date is a year or two away, with multiplayer features still undecided. #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

#Apple confirms it’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose 📱 Apple has intentionally broken iPhone web apps in the EU, blaming it on the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). 🔒 PWAs (progressive web apps) were demoted to website shortcuts in iOS betas, affecting their functionality in the EU. 🔄 Apple states that complying with the DMA's requirement to allow different browser engines is too complex and not practical to implement in iOS. 🌍 EU users are now directed to access websites through bookmarks on their Home Screen instead of PWAs. 🙅 Apple has not responded to requests for comment on whether this change was intentional or a beta bug. #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

🔗 #OpenAI releasing Sora, a text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker

🔗 #Google announces Gemini 1.5 Pro ✨ Gemini 1.5 Pro - A highly capable multimodal model with a 10M token context length. The model isn't limited to text – it can understand very long documents, code, entire movies, and other complex inputs. #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker

🔗#Nvidia overtakes Amazon and Alphabet,in market cap Nvidia, the chip giant that powers 🎮gaming & 📼AI, has become the third most valuable US company and the world's fourth. 📈Its stock rose 49% in 2024, reaching a market cap of $1.83 trillion. (Now Alphabet $1,82 T, Amazon $1.78 T)

Nvidia started as a graphics card maker in 1993 and now dominates cloud computing, data centers, and self-driving cars. Its success is driven by innovation, acquisitions, and partnerships, as well as the growing demand for its products and services.

Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, is praised for his visionary leadership. Nvidia's rivals, such as Intel and AMD, are struggling to keep up. Nvidia plans to launch new products👌, expand its markets, and complete its $40 billion acquisition of Arm, the UK-based chip designer. Nvidia's rise to the top of the tech world is a testament to its resilience, creativity, and ambition. #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker

🔗#Nvidia's Chat AI with RTX on your PC Nvidia has released Chat with RTX, a demo app that allows you to run a personalized AI chatbot on your Windows RTX PC or workstation.

You can feed it your own content, such as 🔗YouTube videos, 📝documents, or ✍️notes, and then query it to get relevant answers or summaries based on your data.

The app uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration to provide fast and secure results. Chat with RTX is based on the TensorRT-LLM RAG developer reference project, which is available on GitHub for developers who want to build their own RAG-based applications. #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker

📱#Threads rolling-out Trending Topics Threads, is testing a new feature that lets users follow and create topics of interest, such as sports, music, or politics. 📈Topics are similar to hashtags, but they show posts from people and groups that the user follows, not from anyone who uses them. Users can also invite others to join their topics and discover new content that matches their interests. Topics is currently available to a small group of users in the US. Threads hopes that Topics will make the app more engaging and personalized for its users. 📱Is that can beat X(Twitter)'s Trending?😄 #ITNews | Source | @Tech_maker

Gameloft fucked up again 🤬🤬 All the below games that got dilisted from their playstore page are not able to install outside of Playstore that includes the classic titles, they fucked up with their latest updates : 1- Modern Combat 5 2- Modern Combat 4 3- Gangstar City 4- Gangstar Rio: City of Saints 5- Gamelofts Classics 6- Dead Rivals 7- Dungeon Hunter 4 8- Dungeon Hunter 5 9- N.O.V.A. Legacy 10- Asphalt Nitro (it's back again) And many more They intentionally release one final update on their classic old games from before 2014 to make it unplayable and cannot be installed from outside and best thing to do is to find an older version or hacked APK #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

Take-Two Interactive CEO says that he would love to bring more games on #Netflix Netflix recently added the GTA Trilogy (III, Vice City, and San Andreas) to its gaming platform, leading to a successful response. Take-Two Interactive's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, expressed interest in bringing more games to Netflix, emphasizing the need for economic feasibility and consumer demand. Potential additions discussed include older GTA titles, 2K games like Borderlands, WWE, or Mafia, and titles from Private Division such as The Outer Worlds or Rollerdrome. #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

Hideo Kojima, the renowned game designer and creator of the Metal Gear series, has provided additional information regarding his upcoming project, titled "PHYSINT" Hideo Kojima's upcoming project "PHYSINT" aims to blur the lines between gaming and film, offering a seamless blend of interactive gameplay and cinematic storytelling, creating an immersive experience that feels like watching a movie while maintaining the interactive elements of a game. #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

Helldivers 2 has topped God of War to become PlayStation's biggest ever PC launch by playercount. #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

Ubisoft says Assassin’s Creed Codename Red, The Division Resurgence and Rainbow Six Mobile will be released by March 2025 #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs

Google Bard is now Gemini 🤖 Google launched #Gemini Advanced and released a new Gemini Mobile App. Web: gemini.google.com 🔗 App: Google Gemini App 🔗 #Gemini | Source | @Tech_maker

#Disney investing $1.5 billion in Epic Games 🔗Epic Games, the creator of 🎮Fortnite, to create a new "games and entertainment universe". This collaboration will integrate content from beloved 🔗Disney franchises like Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Avatar. Players will be able to play, watch, shop, and engage in this exciting new universe. Disney CEO Bob Iger called it the company's "biggest entry ever into the world of games". The partnership has already resulted in successful collaborations, including the Marvel "Nexus War with Galactus" in Fortnite, which drew over 15.3 million concurrent players. 🎮 #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker

This is actually the 1st earnings call that CH Kim (KRAFTON CEO) is in, so it's a big deal. Basically these 5 games are building up to a surprise "Big IP" drop 🔥🔥 There's going to be a Closed Beta and Early Access for Black Budget (PUBG extraction) and Inzoi (kdrama sims game) #Gaming | Source | @Tech_maker @HubCollabs