Gemini app comes to the iPhone

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Google has launched the Gemini app on the iPhone. You can now download it on the Apple App Store for free. Some features you'll get include access to "free-flowing conversation" with Gemini Live, allowing you to talk to Gemini conversationally. You can pick from 10 distinct voices, and it supports 10 languages with a promise of more coming soon. Google says this Gemini Live experience is new for iPhone users.

The app also helps students study better with its ability to create tailored study plans and ask it to quiz you. You also get access to Imagen 3, Google's image generation model. You can check this link to see if you have access to it already.

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Otter.ai offers Spanish and French transcription

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Otter.ai adds more languages to its artificial intelligence-powered transcription and translation service. The app adds real-time transcription in Spanish and French on its desktop and mobile apps. The feature works for in-person and virtual meeting platforms, including Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.

You can also use Otter.ai's AI Chat feature to ask follow-up questions about the transcription in your preferred language. The downside is the company isn't offering translation at launch, so you must be a speaker of the language you're transcribing. The company said it plans to support more languages throughout 2025.

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Qualcomm debuts flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite processor

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You can expect the upcoming generation of Android flagships to feature Qualcomm's newest chipset. The company announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite, unifying its naming scheme with the ARM-based X Elite laptop chips. Like those processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite has an Oryon CPU with a custom eight-core structure consisting of 2x prime cores clocked at 4.32GHz and 6x performance units running up to 3.53GHz. This CPU is paired with a 24MLB cache and supports 5,300MHz LPDDR5X RAM.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is fabricated on TSMC's 3nm process, promising a 45% improvement in CPU performance and a 44% power efficiency boost over its predecessor. Meanwhile, on the graphics side, the Snapdragon 8 Elite gets a redesigned Adreno GPU that boosts performance by 40% and improves its power savings as well as its ray-tracing capabilities. This system-on-chip will be the first mobile SoC to support Unreal Engine 5.3 and the Nanite virtualized geometry system.

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