Tag Archives: Lens

Inside UCLA football's DeShaun Foster firing from a recruiting lens as Bruins look to salvage their 2026 class – 247Sports

Inside UCLA football’s DeShaun Foster firing from a recruiting lens as Bruins look to salvage their 2026 class  247Sports DeShaun Foster is out at UCLA; here’s who could take over the Bruins  ESPN Commentary: UCLA can’t afford to let Martin Jarmond hire its next football coach  Los Angeles Times What’s next for UCLA QB Nico Iamaleava after Bruins fire Deshaun Foster  CBS Sports UCLA …

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Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts

Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts

Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers. Imagine Lens allows users to create, edit, and re-create Snaps by entering their own prompts. They can then share the image with their friends, post …

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Amazon’s Lens Live AI shops for anything you can see

Amazon’s Lens Live AI shops for anything you can see

Amazon will now let you shop for products by pointing your camera at them. On Thursday, the company announced Lens Live, a new feature that uses your camera to scan things in the environment around you, while surfacing matching product listings. This feature, which is only rolling out to the Amazon Shopping app on iOS for now, lets you pan …

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Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world

Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world

Amazon is further investing in AI-powered shopping experiences with Tuesday’s launch of Lens Live, a new AI-powered upgrade to its Amazon Lens shopping feature that allows consumers to discover new products through visual search, similar to competitors like Google Lens and Pinterest Lens. The tool will also integrate with Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, for product insights, the retailer notes. …

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Microsoft is shutting down its Lens PDF scanner app

Microsoft is shutting down its Lens PDF scanner app

Microsoft is quietly winding down its Lens scanning app for iOS and Android, the company confirmed in a support document. Formerly known as Office Lens, the app lets users convert images into PDFs, PowerPoint slides, and Excel files, handling both handwritten and printed documents with ease. It was simple, reliable, and widely used — but it’s now on the chopping …

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RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI

RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI

Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that does one thing well without a lot of fuss. Microsoft Lens was that type of app: a mobile document scanner that turned paper documents, business cards, receipts, and anything else into easily readable digital files. Now that app is being discontinued, Microsoft says, as it directs its users to its Copilot …

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Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play …

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Elgato’s new 4K webcam lets you swap lens filters like a pro camera

Elgato’s new 4K webcam lets you swap lens filters like a pro camera

Elgato is launching its Facecam 4K webcam today, which brings the price of 4K resolution and 60fps recording down to $199.99. While the Facecam 4K is $100 less than the Facecam Pro, it also has support for optional lens filters — a first for a webcam. The Facecam 4K will support any 49mm lens filter, allowing owners to apply cinematic …

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