AI video hits 30 seconds, one tracker for iPhone + Android, and a scam-call kill switch

AI video just crossed a real line. Alibaba's Wan3.0 is now live and generates native 30-second clips at up to 1080p with audio in a single pass — twice the length of its predecessor. The standout trick is doc-to-video: hand it a PDF, spreadsheet, slide deck or webpage and it builds a video from that. Longer clips plus document input is a genuine jump, not a demo flex. It's a paid API rather than a free consumer app for now, so treat it as a new tool in the kit — not a replacement for editors just yet.

Jio just launched the JioTag 2 in India at Rs 1,249, and it fixes the most annoying thing about Bluetooth trackers. A single tag now works with both Apple's Find My on iPhone and Google's Find Hub on Android — so it keeps following you even if you switch phones between platforms or use it across a mixed-device household. It also adds a replaceable battery rated for about a year, a louder buzzer, and crowd-based location finding. At this price, it's an easy way to stop losing keys, bags and wallets.

Here's a Google Maps trick most people never find. Tap the camera icon in the search bar, lift your phone, and point it down the street. Maps overlays live labels on the real view around you — every shop, cafe, ATM and station, with ratings and whether they're open right now. It's called Lens in Maps (formerly Search with Live View) and it's a cheat code when you're standing in an unfamiliar area trying to get your bearings. Next time you step out of a metro station in a new part of town, try it instead of squinting at the blue dot.

Google just made voice-to-text actually usable. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe takes your messy talking — the umms, the false starts, the mid-sentence corrections — and turns it into clean, auto-formatted text. It posts a 2.6% word error rate across 85+ languages including Indian ones, can label up to three speakers with timestamps, and is 70% faster to a final transcript than Google's previous model. It already powers Gboard's Rambler voice typing and is rolling into Chrome, Docs, Gmail and Keep, so speak-to-type finally works almost anywhere. If you type long messages on your phone, this is the shift worth watching.

With scam and spam calls exploding, here's a 60-second win most people miss. In WhatsApp, go to Settings > Privacy > Calls and turn on 'Silence Unknown Callers.' Calls from numbers not in your contacts stop ringing your phone entirely — but they still land silently in your call list and notifications, so if a delivery agent or a genuine unknown number calls, you can still see it and call back. Zero downside, big drop in interruptions. Do it now, then send this to the family member who gets the most spam calls.