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Google Enhances Gemini Live with New Features
Google is enhancing its AI assistant, Gemini Live, with a series of new features aimed at improving user interaction. Starting next week, Gemini Live will have the ability to highlight items on your screen while sharing your camera, making it easier for users to identify tools or objects. This enhancement is designed to facilitate more efficient project completion, where users can simply point their camera at a collection of tools, and Gemini Live will indicate the correct one for their needs, reports 24brussels.
The feature will debut on the newly announced Pixel 10 devices set to launch on August 28th, with plans to roll out visual guidance to other Android devices simultaneously, and later to iOS users in the coming weeks. In addition to the visual capabilities, Google is expanding Gemini Live’s functionality to allow interaction with various applications including Messages, Phone, and Clock.
This development means that users can, for instance, while discussing directions with Gemini, easily shift the conversation to text a friend about running late. Google has indicated that users will be able to prompt the AI to draft messages on their behalf effortlessly.
Moreover, Google is introducing an updated audio model for Gemini Live that aims to enhance the chatbot’s communication by emulating key aspects of human speech, such as intonation and rhythm. Gemini will soon adapt its tone based on the context; for instance, it may use a calmer voice when discussing stressful topics.
Users will also have the option to control the speed at which Gemini speaks, similar to features available in other AI voice assistants. Additionally, if asked for dramatic narrations, the chatbot may even adopt characters’ accents to deliver a more engaging storytelling experience.
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- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium will halt parcel shipments to the US starting August 23.
- The operators lack mechanisms to manage the payment of duties without the de minimis exemption.
- Etsy suspended US-bound shipping labels with operators that cannot support prepaid duties.
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Postal services operated by Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium — Posten Bring, PostNord, and bpost — said they will suspend parcel shipments to the US ahead of the end of a customs exemption that allows low-value packages to enter the country duty-free.
The conundrum facing postal operators comes as the Trump administration prepares to suspend the “de minimis” exemption starting on August 29. The exemption used to allow international shipments under $800 to cross the border with minimal paperwork and no duties.
Now, these shipments will face tariffs, and not every operator can handle the customs declaration paperwork, have a payment mechanism in place, or be responsible for returns should a receiver refuse to pay tariffs. It’s unclear when the temporary freeze on shipments will resume.
“Due to the short timeframe to adapt to the new specific requirements, PostNord will temporarily halt shipments to the United States and Puerto Rico until a compliant solution has been developed and implemented,” wrote the operator owned by the Swedish and Danish governments in a statement on Wednesday.
Separately, Posten Bring, Norway’s primary postal provider operated by the government, said in a statement that postal services have not been given clear instructions and solutions on how the duties will be paid or who would be responsible for returns. Therefore, Posten Bring sees suspension as the “only option.”
All three European postal services will suspend shipments starting August 23, which applies to all packages other than letters. This means that if you have a pending purchase that is not shipped by the deadline, your seller may need to cancel your order or arrange alternatives.
But even if you’re not purchasing from these specific European countries, your shopping options might still dwindle and become more costly.
Etsy, the US e-commerce giant and a hub for independent crafters, posted a notice Wednesday that shipping label purchases for Australia Post, Canada Post, Evri, and Royal Mail for US-bound packages will be temporarily suspended starting August 25.
Etsy wrote in a statement that these operators are unable to support prepaid duties at the moment, which may result in a large number of rejected packages due to unpaid duties and surprise costs for buyers not listed at checkout.
Across social media platforms, many independent sellers based in the UK are also announcing that they can no longer support orders to the US, citing the introduction of an $80 flat fee plus handling charges for using Royal Mail to ship parcels to the US.
“We hope to resume shipping as soon as we can, but we really don’t want our customers to be hit with an $80+ fee,” wrote the Citrine Circle, a UK-based crystal shop, on Instagram. “It feels like the world is getting smaller and smaller.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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