If you use the popular messaging app WhatsApp on an iPhone, there may be times when you wish you had the ability to add more than one account. The good news is that a recent update for WhatsApp, released via Apples TestFlight beta program, includes the feature, suggesting that it could be rolled out soon for everyone using WhatsApp on an iPhone.Android users will be scoffing at this news, as the feature has been available for WhatsApp on that platform since 2023. But hey, better late than never.Recommended VideosSetting up additional WhatsApp accounts on a single device can be done in a few steps, though youll need to have another phone number or a phone that supports more than one SIM card, or eSim.Please enable Javascript to view this contentWABetaInfo, which first reported the incoming feature, confirmed that the recent update eliminated the need for multiple devices or parallel apps to manage different WhatsApp accounts, simplifying account management and enhancing convenience for users.iPhone users will be able to add a new account to WhatsApp using two different methods. The first involves setting up the device as a primary account, while the second lets you scan a QR code to link the new account as a companion.While users will be able to keep all of their conversations organized within a single app, elements such as notifications, chats, backups, and settings will remain distinct for the different accounts, as each one will operate independently within the app, WABetaInfo said.Up to now, a workaround has seen users upload the WhatsApp Business app and using another number for that account, but the new feature will let you use the main app to manage both numbers at the same time, meaning youll no longer have to jump between apps.There are lots of reasons why someone might want to have multiple WhatsApp accounts on one phone. Keeping a separation between work and personal communications is an obvious one, and if you operate multiple businesses then separating these will help you to manage things like customer interactions and branding for each operation. Additionally, some folks may wish to create different personas or profiles for various social circles or interests.Coming late to WhatsApp? Digital Trends has everything you need to know.Editors Recommendations

Voice AI startups raised over $398 million in VC funding in 2024, per PitchBook data.The technology is expanding into enterprise uses like customer service and assistants.BI spoke to investors about the untapped opportunities in the nascent voice AI space.Voice is fast becoming the new AI battleground.From buzzy virtual assistants to speech synthesis tools, the technology has taken off in the past year.While AI voice tech isn't new, the tools have rapidly become more sophisticated, driving adoption from the call center to recruitment agencies.Its use cases are vast, from real-time audio transcriptions to generating synthetic voices from text prompts.Investors looking for the next opportunity in the highly competitive AI market have thrown their checkbooks behind startups. According to PitchBook data, startups developing voice AI technology raised over $398 million in VC fundingin 2024.London-based PolyAI, which has developed voice assistants for call centers, secured $50 million in a funding round from Hedosophia. London and New York-headquartered ElevenLabs, which has developed a voice cloning technology, raised $100 million in January 2024 and is said to be raising a further $200 million, Business Insider first reported."Recent breakthroughs in real-time speech-to-speech processing have unlocked new use cases, including virtual assistants, customer support, and voice-based productivity," said Sivesh Sukumar, an investor at VC firm Balderton. "Companies like ElevenLabs and OpenAI are at the forefront of this space, with ElevenLabs releasing a real-time API expected to drive further adoption."Voice AI is a comparatively nascent space, so there isn't an established incumbent yet but it's triggering investor excitement for the untapped opportunities in the sector, Sukumar added.An expanding ecosystemStartups are quickly identifying how to tailor voice technology to a host of enterprise and consumer needs. And with agentic AI a hot topic for CEOs, its overlap with voice technology could hold high potential.PlayAI, a startup that is developing an AI platform for text-to-speech models and AI voice agents, raised $21 million in seed funding in November."We've seen a massive increase in interest in building voice agents, which a human can speak to just like it's another human," said PlayAI cofounder Hammad Syed. "Voice AI is going mainstream and will be a key interface in how people interact with technology. Investors definitely realize this opportunity," he added.VCs scouring the ecosystem to make their next big bet are now looking at voice AI as a technology stack, said Steve Jang, founder and managing partner at Kindred Ventures, which also backed PlayAI. The firm's investment thesis is to back startups "with multiple layers with many use cases in consumer, enterprise, and creativity.""First, there are specialized and foundational models. Second, there are infrastructure services and tools, which offer access and integration with these models. And then, perhaps most importantly, there is the vast vertical application space," he told BI.The sector is also attractive to investors because voice is an easy category to cash in on. "You can price it by the outcome, so it's pretty easy to monetize," said Jonathan Userovici, general partner at VC firm Headline. "That's why you have so much revenue traction it's pretty easy to get a return on investment, especially if you're replacing a human doing that labor."Consumer appetite for voice AI has also skyrocketed. With more users preferring to take in information through audio formats like podcasts, Sukumar highlighted the growing consumer demand for voice control and audio interfaces. He built PersuAIsion, a voice AI platform that allows users to practice real-world conversations from job interviews to first dates because he saw the scope for voice to cater to such consumer needs."If OpenAI can capture the consumer voice agent, they'll be what Siri was supposed to be," he said. "I think there's going to be a lot more interfacing with personal devices, and there's just going to be better e-commerce consumer experience on that front."Frontier labs are catching upDespite its growing popularity, voice AI doesn't seem to have one established juggernaut just yet. Part of the reason could be that frontier labs have largely stayed away from the space, possibly due to a concern that a misuse of voice generation capabilities could result in a potential backlash, according to Air Street Capital's 2024 State of AI report."Despite scraping huge quantities of audio and video data, frontier labs have been slow to release text-to-speech products," said Nathan Benaich, founder and general partner of Air Street Capital. He pointed to OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode, which was repeatedly postponed, and Google's NotebookLM, which "is relatively locked down."AI experts had sounded the alarm about the possible rise of deepfakes in a year marked by global elections but that didn't end up being the case."In all likelihood, labs were keen to avoid being dragged into the panics about deepfakes that often accompany major elections. I think it's inevitable they will play more in this space, just because the potential commercial opportunity is so large," Benaich said.Big Tech may be slowly pivoting toward the trend. Amazon's plans to ramp up its voice assistant offerings through Alexa were delayed until 2025, and Apple recently bulked up its Siri feature by adding ChatGPT capabilities.Still, Benaich noted that it won't be an easy task for any one company to take the crown. "Displacing companies like ElevenLabs, who already enjoy widespread adoption and have been optimizing their tools for enterprise users for years now, could prove challenging," he said.

DeepSeek has rolled out AI models that are a lot cheaper than OpenAI's offerings.AI models are mostly trained on public data, making differentiation challenging.DeepSeek's open-source models challenge OpenAI's proprietary approach.The cost of using AI models has been plunging as competition intensifies and it becomes increasingly easy to catch, match, and even beat the top-performing offerings.Having a leading AI model is nowhere near as special as it was two years ago. These models are mostly trained on data that's publicly available on the internet, so they're not that much different from each other. Standing out in this crowd and charging premium prices is increasingly difficult.In recent weeks, DeepSeek has taken this pricing dynamic to a new level. The Chinese AI lab rolled out models that are as good as, or better, than the best products from OpenAI, the pioneering creator of ChatGPT.That's impressive. But what's potentially more disruptive is how cheap DeepSeek's models are.Bernstein tech analysts studied DeepSeek's offerings in recent days and found that the Chinese AI lab is massively undercutting OpenAI on price."DeepSeek's pricing blows away anything from the competition, with the company pricing their models anywhere from 20-40x cheaper than equivalent models from OpenAI," the analysts wrote in a note to investors on Sunday. DeepSeek and OpenAI pricing compared Bernstein Research The chart above shows the cost of "tokens," which have become the raw material of generative AI. Chatbots and AI models break down words and other inputs into these tokens to make them easier to process and understand. One token is about three-quarters of a word.When AI companies are handling prompts and other model inputs and outputs, they often charge users based on a per-token price. DeepSeek's Reasoner model costs 55 cents for every 1 million tokens inputted. Meanwhile, OpenAI's o1 model charges $15 for the same number of tokens, according to Bernstein.The Bernstein analysts also noted that DeepSeek's models are open-source, which means they are available to anyone who wants to work with them, for free. That's a contrast to OpenAI, which keeps its top models proprietary and closed, while charging relatively high prices for the products."The whole thing brings up some very interesting questions about the role and viability of proprietary versus open-source efforts that are probably worth doing more work on," the Bernstein analysts wrote.DeepSeek's newly-released flagship model is now No. 1 on Apple's free apps chart just ahead of ChatGPT.

House in Katsushika / Yo Irie ArchitectsSave this picture! Takahiro AraiHouses, RenovationKatsushika City, JapanArchitects: Yo Irie ArchitectsAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:141 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:Takahiro Arai Lead Architects: Yo Irie More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Save this picture!Text description provided by the architects. This is a house that was renovated from a 30-year-old steel-framed building with ALC exterior walls in Tokyo, Japan. The first floor was an office for a newspaper company, and the second and third floors were company housing. The site was an acute triangle overlooking the river to the east, and the existing plan was a simple triangle that followed the shape of the site.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!First, to check the condition of the existing building, the existing interior finish was demolished to reveal the steel frame and ALC walls. It was found that the frame was sound, but there was no insulation in the exterior walls. It became necessary to renovate the insulation of the exterior skin, but by taking advantage of the simple exterior shape and wrapping the entire building in external insulation, the exterior skin had fewer thermal bridges, and the interior was left exposed with the steel frame and ALC exposed, allowing the interior to be used as widely as possible. The exposed steel frame can be thought of as a heat storage body, and various metal fittings such as clamps and full screws and magnets can be attached, so it can be used as a starting point for freely customizable ad hoc construction.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!For the windows, a resin inner sash was added to the existing aluminum sash, but the depth of the cavity was made wider to cut direct sunlight during the peak summer season like a canopy. In the piano room on the first floor, a multi-layered window made of FRP and polycarbonate was devised to replace the existing large glass window. The triple air layer provides high insulation, the folded plate shape diffuses sound, and the translucent surface protects the privacy of the first floor. The first-floor wall is equipped with a sound diffusion and humidity control device that reuses the peeled core material generated during the LVL manufacturing process.Save this picture!Overall, the design is such that the exterior skin, structure, and interior are linked. By renovating the exterior, the structure can be exposed, which improves its maintainability, creates an opening for the interior, and makes it easier to show the structure's value as a building that will not change even when it is handed over to the next resident. Not finishing the structure and walls will also be a measure against internal condensation. The interior was kept as simple as possible, allowing for future versatility and reducing costs. Fixing the existing steel frame with full screws and metal fittings does not require special tools, is easy to install by oneself, and is easy to adapt to changes in lifestyle.Save this picture!The exterior renovation makes use of the structure and creates versatility for the interior. Existing buildings with steel frame construction and ALC exterior walls are common, but we aimed to add value to them and create a type of renovation that can continue to be used for a long time, even if the residents change.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officeYo Irie ArchitectsOfficePublished on January 27, 2025Cite: "House in Katsushika / Yo Irie Architects" 27 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1026013/house-in-katsushika-yo-irie-architects&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

In September of last year, we received information about a playtest scheduled for early 2025, along with various other details regarding the next installment of the Battlefield franchise. It turns out that this large-scale community-driven test could possibly be the biggest in the franchises history, as the developers hope the upcoming game meets the communitys expectations and avoids following the troublesome launches of Battlefield V and Battlefield 2042. According to the sources of Insider Gamings Tom Henderson, the playtests that Battlefield 6 received are more frequent compared with any other earlier titles. In regards to data and feedback collected from the studios player first approach, which involves taking information from channels like small feedback sessions to large-scale player tests, this time is the most the franchise has seen in its history.Electronic ArtsMeanwhile, Insider Gaming said that some major announcements can be expected in the coming months. Before that, more playtests could be seen, where players will enroll in testing the multiplayer and the free-to-play Battle Royale that was developed by Ripple Effect. In previous official disclosures, Ripple Effect was said to be working a new Battlefield experience fuelled by our unique Battlefield DNA thats been testing really well with players.The next Battlefield will be one of the most ambitious projects in [EAs] history and designed to return to the franchises roots. The game would feature 64-player matches and a four-class system while revamping the destruction systems.Its clear that DICE and Electronic Arts are trying their best to save the franchise from the track of losing confidence and attraction from players. Last week, a former DICE employee, known as Rizible, shared a wealth of information about the studios inner dealings about the upcoming Battlefield 6 and plans for the franchise as a whole.Join our80 Level Talent platformand ournew Discord server, follow us onInstagram,Twitter,LinkedIn,Telegram,TikTok, andThreads,where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.Source link The post Battlefield 6 Is Reportedly Having The Largest-Scale Playtests The Franchise Has Ever Seen appeared first on CG SHARES.

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There is no doubt that David Lynch has had a profound impact on video games. In the wake of his death in January 2025, game developers were among the many who paid homage to him and cited him as inspiration for their work.