After an early tease this month, Google’s Gemini Live AI assistant has now rolled out to all Android users for free. Gemini Live was initially limited to those subscribing to the Gemini Advanced plan for $20 a month, but the voice assistant is now available to anyone who downloads the Gemini app. However, it is only available […]

Raspberry Pi has joined the world of AI with a new camera that processes visual data with AI models on the device. The $70 Raspberry Pi AI Camera was built in collaboration with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS).  The camera embeds Sony’s IMX500 intelligent vision sensor to process images with AI on the chip. That […]

There are some major updates to Google Maps, Street View, and Google Earth to know about – and the new and upgraded features should prove helpful in all kinds of ways for users of Google’s mapping tools. The updates are outlined in a blog post by Google, and first up we’ve got the addition of […]

Take a close look at the press releases for the brand new Samsung Galaxy S24 FE, Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Plus, or Samsung Galaxy S10 Ultra, and you’ll notice a footnote pointing to a future where some Galaxy AI features require a payment. As spotted by SamMobile, the exact text reads: “Fees may apply to […]

OpenAI has enhanced ChatGPT’s GPT-4o mini model with a bunch of new features, though surprisingly, it does not have any of the usual fanfare. The smaller, faster version of the GPT-4o model, GPT-4o mini, has lacked many of the features of its larger sibling until now – though by its nature, it has less power […]

If you want the smartest AI and the most features from ChatGPT, you can currently pay $20 (about £15 / AU$29) a month to OpenAI for ChatGPT Plus – but that subscription fee could more than double over the next five years. That’s according to a report from the New York Times, apparently based on […]

AI may seem like it’s everywhere now, but you’ll see a lot more embedded in people’s lives before too long, according to YoungJip Kim, the head of AI for Samsung Electronics. Speaking in the evening after the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE and Galaxy Tab S10 and their many AI features, Kim shared […]

While it didn’t start on time, once Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Meta Connect 2024 for the opening keynote it’s safe to say that it was a fast-moving and news-making event. Zuck and co showed off a ton of AI tools – including new celebrity voices and live translation for Meta AI, […]

If you’re a Google Photos user, you’ll know the app has a Memories feature that brings up older pictures and videos from your collections, reminding you of trips and other special occasions – and it seems that Memories is in line to get an AI upgrade in the near future. As spotted by Android Authority, […]

Have a question about a YouTube video you didn’t understand or just didn’t want to sit through? You can ask the AI chatbot rolling out from the video platform to answer all those questions, at least if you’re a Premium subscriber on an Android device. The AI, likely fueled by Google’s Gemini AI models, can […]

As I’m writing this, Meta Connect 2024 is just a day away, which means we’re also just a day away from (hopefully) finally seeing the Meta Quest 3S in action – Connect is where many expect the much-leaked headset will make its debut. But its arrival could also be the end of one of the […]

Filling out CAPTCHA puzzles is tedious, but using them as (imperfect) shields against malicious bots made sense, at least until now. Artificial intelligence can now defeat those puzzles every time, according to new research from ETH Zurich. CAPTCHA, an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” is employed across […]

Microsoft is currently testing a change for Windows 11’s Settings app that concerns recommended and promoted content – ads, in short – and surprisingly, it’s an idea that won’t make you wince.  Windows Latest spotted that in preview builds of Windows 11 (in the Beta and Canary channels specifically), there’s a new dedicated ‘Recommendations & […]

Back in April, we heard that ChatGPT developer OpenAI was busy working on a hardware device in partnership with ex-Apple design chief Jony Ive – a rumor that has now been confirmed in a new profile of Ive. The profile appeared in the New York Times (via The Verge), and goes into some of the […]

If you’re feeling overwhelmed ahead of Amazon Prime Day, a new AI feature from the e-commerce giant may help you score everything you want, even the items you don’t yet know you want to buy. Amazon announced this week that customers will have a more personalized experience when shopping by employing large language models (LLMs) […]

Meta Connect 2024 is approaching – it kicks off on September 25 – and it looks all but certain that it’ll be the launch event for the new Meta Quest 3S. We knew almost everything about the headset already, and now a leaked ad might have confirmed the final detail: how much it’ll cost. To […]

Fintech and e-commerce platform Klarna is shopping around a handful of new features for its AI shopping assistant. Klarna’s AI now works as a chatbot employing OpenAI’s AI models to make shopping faster and adapt the experience to your preferences. The idea is to turn looking for a product or sale into a conversation and […]

A new AI-powered teddy bear might be the solution to storytime with your kids or an eerie robot attempting to usurp a parenting duty, depending on your point of view. Tech toy company Skyrocket hopes you’ll see Poe the AI Story Bear as the former. The plush toy employs AI models from OpenAI to compose […]

Hot on the heels of Snapchat’s newly-announced AI Creative Tools, which include the ability to create AI Selfies alongside new AI Snaps tools for Snapchat+ subscribers, a few users have noticed that the setting for Snapchat to use your AI Selfie in adverts is turned on by default. In Snapchat, your AI Selfie is created […]

Ever feel like your social media posts only get engagement from bots? Well, the new SocialAI app attempts to flip that flaw into a feature. The company has just launched its mobile app, on which each user only connects with AI chatbots. To be fair, the bots are not spam, they are designed to engage […]

Have you always wanted to be a YouTuber but aren’t quite sure where to start? YouTube just unveiled some major AI-powered features at its Made On YouTube event, including the integration of generative AI into Shorts, so maybe now is the time to start. Later this year, you’ll be able to use Dream Screen, powered […]

Earlier today, some reports fired up enthusiasm around the possibility that Microsoft might have accidentally let slip the release date for Windows 11 24H2, and that the update was imminent – but that isn’t the case. This originally came from Ghacks, which noticed a blog post written by Microsoft intended for IT professionals on the […]

September is shaping up to be one helluva month for virtual reality. We got the mid-range Pico 4 Ultra a couple of weeks ago – alongside its impressive motion trackers for bringing accurate foot tracking into compatible software – and in a week’s time Meta Connect 2024 will kick off – which is where the […]

Microsoft’s latest update for Windows 11 arrived last week, and the patch for September 2024 delivers some nice boosts for PC gaming on some machines with AMD Ryzen processors – but it has emerged there are some catches reportedly present in the form of bugs. The September patch (KB5043076) comes packing the full release of […]

AI chatbots may struggle with hallucinating made-up information, but new research has shown they might be useful for pushing back against unfounded and hallucinatory ideas in human minds. MIT Sloan and Cornell University scientists have published a paper in Science claiming that conversing with a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) reduces belief […]

Runway’s AI video creation and editing service has added the promised video-to-video revamp feature to its Gen-3 Alpha model platform. The video-to-video tool lets you submit a video and a text prompt to alter it. The changes can adjust the setting, performers, or other elements of the video to match the text prompt or any […]

Audiobooks are a booming business, but it’s impossible to imagine high-quality performers reading every book ever written out loud. To try to fill that gap, Audible, Amazon’s audiobook arm, is testing out using voice clones produced with AI to speed up the process. The idea of a massive increase in books with an audio format […]

Amazon proclaimed its shopping AI chatbot Rufus as a solution for people overwhelmed by the dizzying array of products on its website. But, since it’s Amazon, that’s now going to include some ads, as Adweek first noted. Rufus (named for a pet corgi owned by early Amazon employees) uses AI to research products and recommend […]

Many of us are still waiting for the rollout of Windows 11’s annual major update, version 24H2, which is already available for new Copilot+ PC devices, and with it, Microsoft has introduced smaller “checkpoint cumulative updates” or (‘differential updates’) intended to make monthly updates smaller and faster by only downloading the files your computer is […]

James Earl Jones sadly passed away this week at 93, leaving an amazing legacy as an actor. His iconic voice lent gravitas to the CNN tag, Mufasa in The Lion King, and, most famously, Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise. But, thanks to some foresight by Jones and Star Wars owner Disney, his voice […]

When OpenAI released the much-hyped Strawberry model for ChatGPT this week, it boasted of its prowess with complex logic like software coding, gene sequencing, and quantum physics in a series of videos. I take the company at its word that the models, called o1-preview and o1-mini on ChatGPT, are capable of what they claim. Cracking […]

Urban legends and outlandish stories often send people to Snopes in search of a reality check. Now, the fact-checking site has an AI tool called FactBot to help you win a bet about Bigfoot or confirm a story about your favorite celebrity. Aimed at addressing misinformation, FactBot uses Snopes’ archive and generative AI to answer […]

Gemini Live is now free for all Android users as Google begins the mass rollout of its impressive AI-powered voice assistant. Previously, Gemini Live was only available as part of Google’s paid Gemini Advanced subscription, which cost $20 (£18.99, AU$30). Now, Android users will be able to use the voice assistant for free, but you’ll […]

Fast answers aren’t always the best, which might be the key takeaway from the arrival of OpenAI Strawberry – now called o1-preview – a new ChatGPT reasoning model that takes longer to give you what might be vastly better answers. OpenAI announced the preview release on Thursday in a blog post, saying that it will […]

The latest Meta Quest update is rolling out to the Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro headsets, and while there’s no stand-out upgrade it adds several quality of life improvements that you’re sure to appreciate in areas like multitasking and keeping your library clutter free. A smaller update ahead of Meta […]

AI can soon be your wingman when you use the dating app Bumble, according to CEO Lidiane Jones. As people continue to adjust how they look for love with technology, Jones explained during this year’s Goldman Sachs Communacopia technology conference that Bumble has plans to enhance its usual setup with new AI-powered tools in the […]

If you’re still using Windows 11 version 21H2 or 22H2, watch out: your device is due for a force update to Windows 11 23H2, the last major update to the operating system released in October 2023. Microsoft has released a 30-day reminder in the Windows message center to inform users of End of Service (EoS) […]

Microsoft’s Photos app in Windows 11 is getting a “Visual Search with Bing” feature, which will enable you to search for images similar to whatever pictures you’re viewing. The updated version of the Photos app also brings improved navigation for your photo gallery, quick access to image editing capabilities, and some tweaks to make Photos […]

DOOM, the 1993 cult classic, has turned into somewhat of an internet meme. Playable on nearly everything, from microwaves to electric toothbrushes, it’s more of a question of what can’t play DOOM rather than what can. Now, thanks to Google’s AI GameNGen, AI can even generate a playable version of one of the most beloved […]

YouTube is continuing to tapdance ahead of the rush of AI-produced content popping up on the platform with a new set of tools to spot when AI-generated people, voices, and even music appear in videos. The newly upgraded Content ID system is expanding from looking for copyright infringement to looking for synthetic voices performing songs. […]

The next major release for Windows 11, version 24H2, is expected to be released by Microsoft any week now, and it’s bringing some neat new features to the operating system. Version 24H2 has been in development for a while now and has been in testing with Windows 11 users for at least a couple of […]

ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode hasn’t even been out for very long, yet OpenAI could be set to add eight more voices to the incredible technology that lets you naturally converse with artificial intelligence. These new ChatGPT voices offer a range of new styles that could add to the four preset voices: Juniper, Ember, Cove, and […]

It’s safe to say that Samsung has been building up hype around its future mixed reality (or XR) endeavor. From partnering with Google to teasing it first at a Galaxy Unpacked in 2023 then again at July 2024 at the Paris Galaxy Unpacked event, we’re all hoping to see what it is eventually.  And now, thanks to […]

An 8-bit plumber with a mustache and a taste for mushrooms was the height of cutting-edge entertainment in 1985. Now, an AI model can recreate the entire game based on some basic prompts (and with sometimes hilarious glitches in the process).  The MarioVGG demonstrated in a new academic paper by video game character developer Virtuals […]

You can be a lead in a romantic film promoting an airline and global travel, or at least your face can do so thanks to a new Qatar Airways campaign. The airline has a new AI Adventure campaign combining a short film and deepfake tools as a way of literally seeing yourself having an exciting […]

If you’ve ever tried to type using a gamepad or gaming device, you know it can be tricky, especially with this new generation of handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally X, so it’s good to see that Microsoft is currently trialling a new and improved gamepad keyboard layout for Xbox […]

When OpenAI debuted SearchGPT, the demonstrations suggested everything about how people look for things online would immediately change forever. But, “wow” became “wow, that’s  “embarrassing” when examples of the AI search engine at work proved somewhat flawed. The challenge to Google’s reign as search engine king is still undergoing revisions. According to a new piece […]

Google is racing to get its Gemini AI assistant embedded across its ecosystem, upgrading as it goes. That means not every new or enhanced feature gets much in the way of fanfare when it rolls out beyond the updated support website. Still, a couple of new Gemini tools are worth highlighting for how they embody […]

Zillow is boosting its AI search tool to end the tedious filtering of locations and other elements. Now you can just ask for a place within a travel distance of a location and it will handle the rest for you. The upgraded AI tools, available on the Zillow mobile app, rely on casual language rather […]

Volkswagen has upgraded the voice assistant in its cars to be a lot more talkative than before, thanks to the power of ChatGPT. OpenAI’s conversational companion has been integrated across VW vehicles as promised back at CES, including the newest Jettas and electric cars.  ChatGPT is more of an upgrade than a complete reworking of […]

California is another step closer to defining how and when moviemakers and others can use AI versions of celebrities in their projects. The California state Senate has passed AB 1836, a law requiring those who want to make an AI replica of a deceased performer get explicit consent from their estates. The bill now goes […]

Instead of virtual classrooms with human teachers, the latest course at London’s David Game College brings a virtual teacher to a real classroom. The private school is running the first AI-taught class in the UK as part of its new Sabrewing program. The initial class will see 20 GCSE students participating in the educational experiment, […]

Windows 11 has finally done it and managed to overtake Windows 10 when it comes to market share with PC gamers. As you might have guessed, this is the Steam Hardware Survey which is conducted every month and is a snapshot of the configurations of the various gaming PCs used on Valve’s platform. The figures […]

Meta Connect 2024 is fast approaching, and one of the announcements we’ll almost certainly get on September 25 will be for the Meta Quest 3S. We not only saw a batch of details from regular leakers, Meta itself leaked the headset’s existence twice in recent months, and now FCC and Dekra certifications have further cemented […]

The hugely popular BBC Sounds audio platform is trialing new AI-generated subtitles that play along with shows, and full transcripts, via its website and app. The three-month trial is currently restricted to a handful of shows – In Touch, Access All, Profile, Sporting Witness, and Economics with Subtitles. So, when listening to these specific shows […]

Gemini artificial intelligence models continue to make their way into just about every Google app and device, and it seems Android Auto could be the next in line for some added AI, as per code hidden in the latest Android Auto app for Android. The code was spotted by Android Authority, and mentions the sparkle […]

Microsoft is testing a new way to limit the amount of RAM its Edge web browser uses – and it could sway people from the market leader Google Chrome. As websites get more complex (and stuffed with adverts), they use more system memory on your desktop PC or laptop. If you often browse with lots […]

According to industry insiders, as reported by Reuters, the new version of Amazon’s Alexa, featuring built-in AI, will be powered by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence, rather than a bespoke Amazon AI.  Anthropic’s Claude has long been heralded as a great alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but it doesn’t have a voice mode, so teaming up with […]

Oprah Winfrey is taking her signature interview style to the world of AI and bringing some of the biggest names in tech and policy with her for a new TV special. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and more are all set to appear to discuss and […]

Midjourney is famous for being among the better AI image generators, but now the company is looking to get into hardware, too. The company announced the shift in strategy on X (formerly Twitter) by soliciting people to apply to join the new team.  There aren’t a lot of details about what kind of hardware Midjourney […]

Apple has big plans for its own Apple Intelligence AI features this year, but may be hedging its bets with an investment in OpenAI, according to a Wall Street Journal report.  Considering the upcoming fundraising round by OpenAI claims the company is worth over $100 billion, deep-pocketed companies like Apple are likely going to be […]

Over the weekend we and others reported that the Meta Quest Pro 2 has been canned – or, more specifically, the in-development project that was ‘likely set to be the Meta Quest Pro 2 but not yet officially called that’ to use semantics Meta’s own CTO has deployed in the past (and again recently) – […]

Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence assistant will soon be able to say “hey” directly to you through your messaging apps and notifications, according to code uncovered by Android Authority. The upcoming extensions for Gemini will continue to broaden the options for connecting the Gemini AI to existing services beyond the initial options of Google Flights, Hotels, […]

More details of OpenAI’s secretive Project Strawberry have dropped, including its expected release date and the areas it will specialize in. A recent report in The Information quotes “two people who have been involved in the effort”, and goes on to say that Project Strawberry could drop this Fall, and be better at math and […]

The competition among AI video makers is already simmering, but the temperature just went up again thanks to a new option called Hotshot, built by just four people. The new AI video generator offers a free alternative to Runway, OpenAI’s Sora, Luma’s Dream Machine, and other text-to-video AI models, with some impressive results borne from […]

Arizona State University (ASU) has made ChatGPT its busiest faculty member this year. The AI chatbot helps students write academic papers, simulates patients for healthcare students, and recruits participants for research studies, among hundreds of other roles. ASU and OpenAI agreed to work together earlier this year, deploying an adapted version of ChatGPT designed to […]

Getting ‘roasted’ online is a time-honored trend that sees your photos or social media profiles scorched by a clever put-down or three. It’s often self-inflicted by requests from thick-skinned fans who ask particularly talented roasters to target them. Now, there’s a new roaster on the scene, flambeing hundreds of thousands of Instagram users: ChatGPT. The […]

Windows 10 might get an unpopular change to the Start menu which Microsoft recently implemented in Windows 11, going by a new leak. This is the addition of an account manager section, and that piece of extra clutter in the Start menu could well be coming to Windows 10, as the functionality is currently in […]

It would seem Meta has decided to cancel a high-end mixed reality headset it had in the pipeline – quite possibly the successor to the Meta Quest Pro – due in part to the lukewarm sales performance of the Apple Vision Pro. This is according to Meta insiders speaking to The Information (via The Verge). […]

Have you always wanted to try out Midjourney’s AI image creator but didn’t want to make a Discord account? Now you don’t have to, as Midjourney now lets you make up to 25 images for free, as announced by CEO David Holz on, naturally, Discord. Until now, anyone wanting to use Midjourney’s AI model to […]

Windows 11 is getting a new ability with the 24H2 update which means that more than just one app will be able to access the webcam without having to work around this with a fudge. Yes, if you weren’t aware, it’s currently the case for Windows 11 that the OS (and other Windows versions, for […]

If you believe many recent advertising campaigns, artificial intelligence is everywhere and taking over consumer products. But while more people than ever are aware of AI products like ChatGPT, that doesn’t mean they’ve tried any out or that it affects their purchasing choices.  At least, that’s according to a recent survey from Future (TR’s parent […]

Windows 11 has received some useful tweaks to enable laptop owners to get more battery life, although these changes are still in testing right now. Microsoft implemented a couple of measures in the latest preview build (27686) in the Canary channel (the earliest testing channel). The major change is actually under the hood here, and […]

Grammarly’s expansion from writing assistance to AI tools that can write for you continued this week with a new feature designed to spot AI-composed text. Grammarly Authorship is coming to Google Docs as a beta and aims to help educators in particular work out when students are using AI to write their assignments.  Teachers and […]

Following the major Google Gemini AI teases at Made By Google – which also introduced us to the Google Pixel 9 and six other new Google devices – Gemini just got an update that’s rolling out to older Android devices. This update was teased back at Google I/O with the promise that Gemini’s responses won’t […]

With just a year and a few months to go before Windows 10 reaches its end-of-support date, Microsoft’s strategy to implore Windows 10 users to move up to Windows 11 has been pretty poorly executed. Windows 10 users have been struck by annoying ad campaigns that are invasive and oftentimes take up the full screen, […]

Meta has announced a Meta Quest 3 upgrade that I’ve been really hoping it would release, though its new HDMI Link app doesn’t offer the simple implementation I wanted. The free HDMI Link app, announced in a blog post, lets you use a Quest 3, Quest 2 or Quest Pro as a screen for any […]

Microsoft is testing a new Compact Mode to hopefully make using Game Bar in Windows 11 (and 10) easier and improve navigation on smaller screens, Windows handheld devices such as the Asus ROG Ally X, and while using a controller. As well as a simplified Game Bar layout, it includes a redesigned Home widget, displaying […]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s latest fashion showcase includes not just a 1930s wedding dress but a virtual ghost of the kind of socialite who would have worn it. OpenAI teamed up with the museum to create Natalie Potter, a fictional, century-old woman powered by its latest AI model, to interact with museum-goers and tell […]

The Premier League kicks off this week, and a new AI referee tool to spot when players are offside will be coming on board before it ends, as first reported by Wired. The league has turned to sports tech company Genius Sports and its Semi-Assisted Offside Technology (SAOT).  Unlike the usual video assistant referee (VAR) […]

The best AI image generators have been in the news recently, but not always for the right reasons – with Elon Musk’s Grok-2 AI producing all sorts of controversy over its lack of guardrails. Google probably wants to shift the conversation in a more positive direction, as the company has just expanded access to its Imagen […]

X users can now play around with the new Grok-2 AI model developed by fellow Elon Musk-owned xAI. The new model is integrated into the Grok AI chatbot on X for Premium or Premium+ subscribers and comes with new features like an integrated AI image generator fueled by the open-source and recently debuted FLUX.1 model. […]

Apple has relented at least somewhat regarding a privacy-related pop-up in testing with macOS Sequoia, ensuring that this prompt now doesn’t appear as often as it did before in the beta. This is the somewhat annoying screen recording privacy prompt that appeared weekly (for affected apps that use screen recording) and after every reboot of […]

Opera has introduced an iOS version of its AI-fueled web browser Opera One on the Apple Store. The Safari alternative offers an array of features to entice Safari users, but the centerpiece is Aria, the AI assistant that Opera has integrated across its browser portfolio over the last year or so.  Aria is free and […]

I was alarmed to learn that Microsoft’s ditching one of its Paint apps in Windows 11 (and 10) – until I discovered that the application on the chopping block was Paint 3D. In case you didn’t realize, there are two Paint apps for Windows 11: Paint, a modernized version of the classic app, and Paint […]

Microsoft is giving its Clipchamp video editor an AI upgrade with two new features. Clipchamp users can now employ AI to silence unwanted sounds and remove and cleanly replace background images. The new tools are accessible to Microsoft 365 Insiders but could expand to others as the tech giant seeks to incorporate AI across its […]

Non-profit search engine Ecosia is partnering up with AccuWeather to deliver “hyper-local forecasts” to its users. The goal here is to provide potentially life-saving alerts for weather events as they occur. It appears the update has already been implemented because if you go to Ecosia and type in your location along with the word “weather” […]

AI can mimic a human voice well enough that deepfakes can fool many people into thinking they’re hearing a person talk. Inevitably, AI voices have been exploited for automated phone calls. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is trying to combat the more malicious versions of these attempts and has a proposal aimed at strengthening […]

OpenAI is expanding access to its best AI image generator to ChatGPT users who don’t pay for a subscription. They can now use the DALL-E 3 model to produce two images a day.  Up until now, DALL-E 3 has only been available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, though those who pay the monthly $20 subscription fee […]

Before artificial intelligence takes over the world, it seems it’ll beat us at table tennis first: Google has reported on a robot making use of its DeepMind AI that is now able to play ping-pong to an “amateur human level” of performance. The DeepMind lab is where Google works on some of its most advanced […]

A new AI image generator named Flux.1 has burst onto the scene and is rapidly accruing kudos for its high-end results and the fact that it’s an open-source model. Flux was built by Black Forest Labs, whose founders were previously at Stability AI, the creator of the popular Stable Diffusion line of AI image models.  […]

Google Photos on Android might receive a big update soon that will deliver another redesign and several new features. Android Authority discovered the latter after diving into the files of Google Photos version 6.94. These potential changes run the gamut, affecting various areas of the app. First, the platform is reportedly gaining two new search filters to […]

Back in April, evidence surfaced online revealing that Google was working on improving Android’s desktop mode. Early demos show it’ll be more user-friendly than before by having movable windows, although it still lacks vital features. Since then, we haven’t heard much about the project until recently, when it popped up again in the “latest Android […]

Is Sam Altman just trying to get people to marvel at a few small strawberries he’s grown, or is the OpenAI CEO (the team behind ChatGPT) teasing the next big upgrade to its chatbot? That’s what we’re left wondering after his latest social media post showing a plant pot growing fruit, complete with the caption […]

TikTok videomakers may soon be adding AI-generated content to their dance routines. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has debuted a new text-to-video mobile app exclusively to the Chinese market called Jimeng AI. Though geographically limited for now, Jimeng might become a serious rival to other AI video makers, particularly OpenAI’s Sora. As with other AI video […]

As we edge closer to the official release of macOS 15, an interesting new security-related change has been spotted in Sequoia – although it’s one that might annoy some people. With this move, Apple has made it slightly harder for users to sidestep its built-in Gatekeeper security function when they’re installing an application in macOS. […]

It sometimes seems that lately, every company has been eager to slap the term ‘artificial intelligence’ on their products regardless of accuracy or relevance to the product. Grabbing the attention of potential customers with whatever people seem excited about at that moment makes sense, but AI may not add to a brand’s allure the way […]

A fifth beta of macOS Sequoia has dropped for developers, and while we begin to dig around for any potential new changes, we’ve already stumbled upon this small but fun addition. A new forest-themed wallpaper called Sequoia Sunrise has been added to macOS 15, but you can’t set it as your desktop wallpaper just yet […]

Meta is asking real celebrities to contribute synthetic voices for future AI projects, according to reports from The New York Times and others. The tech giant reportedly is offering millions of dollars to stars like Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, and Judi Dench in exchange for the rights to use their voices to train AI voice clones. […]

Windows 11’s big 24H2 update includes an important revision of a driver display model which will usher in important benefits in terms of speeding up NPUs (Neural Processing Units) and GPUs. This new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) version 3.2 will come with the 24H2 update and a support document from Microsoft, spotted by Windows […]

Windows 11 has finally crept over the 30% mark for market share according to the latest stats from an analytics firm. Statcounter’s figures for July 2024 show that in the ranking of all Windows versions, Windows 11 is now at 30.83% (in second place), which is up just over a percentage point from the previous […]

Is the AI race a popularity contest? Depends on who you ask.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already positioning Meta AI as the front-runner, promising in a recent earnings report that “Meta AI is on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year.” While I found […]

Remember in “The Simpsons” Halloween special when Homer walked through a portal and instantly became three-dimensional? Well, Stability AI has introduced a new tool that leverages AI to do just that.  The new Stable Fast 3D AI model can produce a 3D asset from a single image in about half a second, which is a […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared in a post on X this week that the company is teaming up with the U.S. AI Safety Institute and will give the government agency early access to its next major AI model for safety testing.  Altman described the plan as part of a larger new push for AI safety […]

Researchers at cybersecurity company Cleafy are warning people about new Android malware that can steal money from their bank accounts. It’s called BingoMod and is a type of remote access trojan, or RAT for short. Cleafy discovered it back in May 2024 and recently published a report on its website explaining how the malware operates. As you read […]

ChatGPT just got a nifty new Advanced Voice Mode earlier this week, and although it’s only rolling out to a small subset of paying subscribers right now – in alpha testing – we’ve now been treated to various tasters of the feature in action. These are popping up online, on the likes of YouTube and […]

The voice taking your order for a Doritos Locos taco at the Taco Bell drive-thru might belong to an AI server. Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands is spreading its voice AI feature to hundreds of new locations across the U.S. The Mexican food chain has found early success with embedding AI in its drive-thrus, […]

A new month doesn’t just mean the arrival of a new Meta Quest 3 update – with the recent v68 rollout adding useful home design tools for free – it also signals new free games coming to the Meta Quest Plus subscription. This month (August 2024) those are the narrative-driven puzzle adventure Myst – a […]

Google is dramatically upping its efforts to combat the appearance of explicit images and videos created with AI in search results. The company wants to make it clear that AI-produced non-consensual deepfakes are not welcome in its search engine. The actual images may be prurient or offensive in some other way, but regardless of the […]

Wearable devices powered by artificial intelligence have been having a moment recently, with the Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 catching the world’s attention – often for the wrong reasons. But despite these high-profile flops, another AI wearable has just emerged on the scene, and it might be one of the strangest offerings yet. […]

Meta has a new AI model that can label and follow any object in a video as it moves around. The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) extends the capabilities of its predecessor, SAM, which was limited to images, opening up new opportunities for video editing and analysis.  SAM 2’s real-time segmentation is a potentially […]

ChatGPT’s impressive new Advanced Voice Mode, which it demoed back in May during the launch of GPT-4o, is now rolling out to some Plus subscribers. But a new OpenAI comment suggests that a full release for the feature may not happen until the end of the year. As noted on Reddit’s ChatGPT subreddit, a new […]

Recently found evidence suggests Google Photos may receive a new tool to make hiding photographs displaying certain faces easier. Android Authority unearthed details of this update after digging through the latest patch of Google Photos on Android. As the publication explains, the current method has you select a person’s face within the People section then tap […]

Microsoft has reportedly added a new full-screen pop-up that’s effectively an advert (or as the company puts it, a ‘recommendation’) urging Windows 11 users to back up their PC with OneDrive, its cloud storage service. We’ve seen a similar full-screen nag panel that pushed Windows 11 users to switch to Edge, Microsoft’s default browser for […]

You may remember that a while back, we reported on a nifty feature hidden in test versions of  Windows 11, allowing users to see and use their phone within the desktop OS (in File Explorer) as if it were an external drive. We have been waiting patiently for this feature to finally drop somewhere, and […]

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has a new startup called Lumi aimed at helping creators complete, publish, and sell books and comics. Lumi offers a suite of AI tools to complement users’ existing talents and merchandise what they create. Lumi’s pitch is that most people aren’t equally proficient at every aspect of making and selling […]

X (formerly Twitter) thinks it’s circumvented some of the issues other social media companies such as Meta have bumped up against in regard to training its AI, Grok, on user data and information – but there’s something you can do about it.  X quietly added a setting that allows your posts, interactions, inputs, and results […]

Last month, digital photography brand Blackmagic Design launched its Blackmagic Camera app on Android, but it was limited to a handful of Galaxy and Pixel phones. On those phones, it gave users access to pro-level film tools, and now the company revealed it’s expanding the availability of its software to older devices. The announcement almost went unnoticed as it was […]

The new SearchGPT feature introduced by OpenAI has stumbled in its rollout, as first discovered by The Atlantic. SearchGPT is a new tool designed to combine OpenAI’s AI models with real-time web data for faster, more accurate answers. It’s not widely available but represents OpenAI’s vision of how AI and search will augment each other […]

A new bug is affecting some Windows 11 and Windows 10 users, and it’s been caused by the July cumulative update from Microsoft. It’s an odd one, too, and what’s happening is that the BitLocker recovery screen is being presented to some users after booting up their devices, which must come as a bit of […]

Adobe is rolling out a bunch of new AI features for Photoshop and Illustrator that aim to speed up the design process and offer more control and variety to users. Using Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models, the company suggests it will take a fraction of the time it currently takes to manually produce minute image […]

Samsung is dropping its first-party messaging app in the United States and making Google Messages the pre-installed option out of the box. The company made the announcement in a notice sent through the Samsung Members app. It states that “Samsung Messages will no longer be preloaded” on the Galaxy Z Flip6, Z Fold6, and “newer models”. […]

After an 11-year drought, EA Sports has launched a new college football video game with the likeness of 11,000 players real players. To achieve an accurate look for all those players, “EA Sports College Football 25” relied on artificial intelligence to create digital avatars, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The AI marks […]

In our Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review, we described the gadget as the best AI wearable on the market at the moment – and it seems Google is ready to get back into the smart specs market with its own pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses. According to The Financial Times and The Verge, Meta […]

Windows 11 has witnessed the introduction of yet another piece of nagging designed to drive the use of another Microsoft service – but as always, this is in danger of having the opposite effect. Windows Latest flagged up a fresh move regarding Microsoft’s promotional activity: a pop-up to push the Windows Backup app (which was […]

While some computers are starting to get back online after yesterday’s massive Windows outage took down numerous critical systems across the world, there’s still a lot of troubleshooting to do – and it could be weeks before everything gets back to normal, according to experts. The collapse was caused by a faulty update made to […]

Google’s AI-fueled Ask Photos feature, previewed at Google I/O 2024, has begun initial testing, as first shared by 9to5 Google. Ask Photos employs Google’s Gemini AI to search a user’s photo library using natural language without first organizing and tagging the image. Google hasn’t shared any release date, but it looks like a select group […]

Choosing the best photos for your dating profile can be tough, so Tinder created a virtual curator to help you out. The artificial intelligence-powered Photo Selector will analyze your shortlist of potential photos directly from your phone and suggest those its model predicts would present you at your best. To use the feature, a Tinder […]

European music streaming service Deezer has turned to artificial intelligence to help users curate playlists. The new Playlist with AI feature produces a list of songs based on text prompts describing anything from a musical genre or time period to your current emotions or activities.  Playlist with AI is currently in beta, with a random […]

Windows 11’s much-awaited 24H2 update might arrive a bit later than was previously rumored, or at least that’s the most recent chatter and speculation online. Windows Latest picked up on a Microsoft update regarding the potential release timeframe for 24H2 (as part of the introduction of smaller updates for Windows 11 that we just reported […]

Artificial intelligence models require as much useful data as possible to perform but some of the biggest AI developers are relying partly on transcribed YouTube videos without permission from the creators in violation of YouTube’s own rules, as discovered in an investigation by Proof News and Wired.  The two outlets revealed that Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, […]

Windows 11 is getting some work done on its interface that might consist of more minor tweaks, but nonetheless useful ones, and handy time-savers in some cases. All this is packaged up in a new beta build (preview version 22635) recently released by Microsoft, and the first noteworthy change is to File Explorer. Specifically, it’s […]

US Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) faced the loss of her voice due to Parkinson’s Disease-like Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), relying on common robotic-voiced text-to-speech tools. Now, thanks to AI-powered voice cloning provided by ElevenLabs, she can give speeches in her original voice despite PSP’s impact on her vocal abilities.  After Wexton used the robotic-sounding speech […]

Windows 11 could be getting a significant alteration to the Start menu – and for a change, it’s a useful one, rather than some of the less welcome ad-related tweaks we’ve seen in recent times for the menu. This was uncovered by leaker PhantomOfEarth on X, and it’s a new category view for the ‘All […]

A new Samsung XR/VR headset, developed with Google and running Android in some form, is definitely in the works – and we might now have a better idea of exactly when we’re going to be able to get our hands on it (and put our heads in it). According to sources speaking to Business Insider […]

This month of VR gaming has been a wonderfully weird one as I venture through the Meta Quest 3’s latest wacky puzzle games – and then work my frustration out in a high-octane VR battle royale. I finally got to experience what it’s like to be in Taskmaster (it’s harder than you think), how good […]

OpenAI has developed an internal scale for charting the progress of its large language models moving toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a report from Bloomberg.  AGI usually means AI with human-like intelligence and is considered the broad goal for AI developers. In earlier references, OpenAI defined AGI as “a highly autonomous system surpassing […]

Artificial intelligence-powered influencer Kenza Layli has been crowned the first Miss AI by the World AI Creator Awards (WAICA). Layli, built by Moroccan company Phoenix AI marketing agency, beat out more than 1,500 other virtual models in the inaugural virtual beauty pageant. “I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity to represent AI creators and to […]

If you have all your snaps stored in Google Photos, but want to shift them to the iCloud equivalent – perhaps because you’re making the leap from Android to iPhone – then you’re in luck, as Google has just implemented a new tool that’ll do exactly this. This is part of the Data Transfer Initiative […]

A new AI chatbot can help you understand climate change and how it’s causing a global crisis. The Washington Post has introduced Climate Answers, which is designed to respond to your questions directly using the newspaper’s climate journalism.  The AI draws from the publication’s extensive archive on the subject to compose its response in everyday […]

The latest Windows 11 update (for July 2024) has arrived packing a cure for a known issue whereby the taskbar was essentially broken (not for the first time this year). Even though the bug had a limited impact, it certainly affected some Windows 11 users when it was first discovered in the preview of the […]

During Google I/O 2024, the tech giant previewed Gemini Live, a unique version of the AI on mobile capable of holding “natural conversations.” You can think of it like Siri, as you’ll be able to engage in a two-way dialogue with Gemini and have the AI respond concisely. Since the initial announcement, we haven’t heard […]

Photoshop has been under fire lately following some controversy around its new smallprint – and now the Canva-owned Affinity Photo is looking to capitalize with an impressive-looking new trial offer for its photo-editing software. A new six-month trial for Affinity Photo, which you can also get for its Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher software, covers the […]

Artificial intelligence-powered chatbot Perplexity has augmented its Pro Search tool for research as it endeavors to stand out from ChatGPT and other rivals in the increasingly competitive space.  The upgrade makes the ‘conversational search engine’ better at math and programming, as well as better at handling multi-step reasoning. It also sees the integration of the […]

Windows 11 users are finally getting spellchecking in Notepad along with autocorrect, features that were introduced in preview versions of the OS earlier this year. In fact, it was back in March 2024 that testers got to play with a new version of Notepad that had a spellcheck and autocorrect, so it has taken four […]

Windows 11 is set for a change to the Start menu that’s not been popular in preview, and will surely be even less popular when it makes its full debut in Microsoft’s operating system next week. The change in question involves a new account manager section that’s been added to the Start menu – though […]

Windows 11 is going to get more AI abilities – which is a given, especially considering Microsoft’s big push behind Copilot+ PCs, aka AI PCs – and we can expect more of this in the future, not just with the OS and its default apps. While Microsoft will of course be introducing new features that […]

Some day, there may be an Artificial Intelligence Olympics, where generative AIs face off to create the wildest images, videos, and hallucinative text responses. In the meantime, we have the real Olympics, starting July 26 in Paris, France. They will feature flesh and blood athletes, but behind the scenes will be AI chatting with athletes, […]

WhatsApp is apparently developing an artificial intelligence-fueled image creator that will allow users to make AI avatars of themselves to place in virtual settings they suggest. The feature, first identified by WABetaInfo in a future beta version of the Android version of WhatsApp, will likely use WhatsApp parent company Meta’s Llama portfolio of AI models.  […]

OpenAI’s delaying of ChatGPT’s impressive Voice Mode upset many fans of the AI chatbot, but they may have now been scooped. French artificial intelligence developer Kyutai has introduced a real-time voice AI assistant named Moshi.  Moshi is designed to provide lifelike conversations with users through voice, like Alexa or Google Assistant, but is powered by […]

ChatGPT has inadvertently revealed a set of internal instructions embedded by OpenAI to a user who shared what they discovered on Reddit. OpenAI has since shut down the unlikely access to its chatbot’s orders, but the revelation has sparked more discussion about the intricacies and safety measures embedded in the AI’s design. Reddit user F0XMaster […]

Spotted an AI-produced version of yourself in a YouTube video recently? Don’t worry – you can now ask the platform to take it down.  That’s because YouTube has quietly implemented a new policy addressing concerns over AI-generated mimicry of people, allowing affected individuals to request the removal through YouTube’s privacy request process. It marks the […]

Meta is continuing its monthly cadence of Meta Quest 3 updates with Horizon OS v67 which is beginning to roll out now. Following the comprehensive mixed reality improvements we’ve seen in recent months this latest batch of upgrades is a little more modest, but does bring one big productivity enhancement. As we reported previously following […]

Suno and its artificial intelligence-fueled music composition is now available as a mobile app on iOS in the U.S. The app translates Suno’s AI music creation and sharing tools to smartphones as the company attempts to stake a claim for the most successful AI music developer.  The Suno mobile app essentially carries over what the […]

Google is reportedly going to unite existing and new machine learning (ML) features into a collection known as Google AI for Pixel. An anonymous insider recently spoke to Android Authority, spilling the beans on what the tech giant may have in store. Before diving into the details, remember that this reporting of a potential update […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sketched out a tantalizing idea of what people might expect from the eagerly anticipated GPT-5 artificial intelligence model. He attempted to balance optimism and caution in his comments, but his vision of the new model’s potential underlined his confidence that GPT-5 will represent a substantial improvement over its predecessor, GPT-4, and […]

At WWDC 2024, Apple confirmed that its upcoming Apple Intelligence toolset will feature integration with ChatGPT to help field user queries that Siri can’t handle on its own, and now we’re hearing that a second third-party chatbot could be added to the mix. According to Bloomberg’s resident Apple expert Mark Gurman, Google Gemini could join […]

Gaming browser Opera GX has augmented its AI assistant Aria with several new AI tools, including creating images, speaking out loud, summarizing conversations, and linking appropriately for the conversation. Aria’s new ability to generate images from text prompts leverages Google’s Imagen2 model. Users can generate up to 30 images per day, with the option to […]

The Ray-Ban Meta glasses have a new rival for the title of best smart glasses, with the new Solos AirGo Visions letting you quiz ChatGPT about the objects and people you’re looking at. Unlike previous Solos glasses, the AirGo Vision boast a built-in camera and support for OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model. These let the glasses […]

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude generative AI assistant to be more useful in the office. Claude Pro and Claude Team subscribers can now better organize and track their work with the AI assistant thanks to the new Projects and Artifacts features. Projects are both a place for storing and interacting with data for tasks. Users […]

We’re six months into 2024, and in the first half of the year we’ve been treated to a whirlwind of augmented and virtual reality tech goodness. The star of the show was the Apple Vision Pro launch, but we’ve also seen Meta open up its Horizon OS to its former VR rivals, and Xreal launched […]

Google seemingly has plans to expand its Circle to Search feature to other Android phones via Google Lens. In a recent deep dive, news site Android Authority found clues to the update within the recent Google app betas files and compiled them all together.  What’s particularly interesting is they managed to get the tool working […]

Gemini continues its march across the Google ecosystem. The AI is currently making its way to Google Messages after restrictions were scaled back on June 18.  According to the news site MySmartPrice, you’ll soon be able to instruct the feature to “draft messages, have fun conversations, plan events,” among other things. However, the form that […]

Google Translate is adding 110 new languages to its library, the largest expansion ever made to the platform. The update leverages Google’s PaLM 2 large language model, an artificial intelligence tool that helps accurately translate across a wider array of languages than before. Those languages are spoken by approximately 614 million people, or about 8% […]

It’s been a big day for the Chrome platform. Not only has the mobile app received an update to its search function, but Chromebooks are receiving a patch in the form ChromeOS M126. It’s not a major refresh, but it does introduce several quality-of-life improvements that collectively aim to make the system more accessible. There […]

Character.AI’s collection of virtual personalities based on real and fictional sources will speak up thanks to the new Character Calls audio feature. The artificial intelligence-fueled chatbots can now engage in two-way voice conversations for free on the startup’s app. Augmenting the synthetic people hosted on Character.AI’s hub with voices is supposed to make them more […]

Windows 11 just got its latest update, but Microsoft has put it on hold following the discovery of a bug that’s seriously bad news. This is the KB5039302 update, which is an optional download for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2, so it’s still in preview, ahead of its release as the cumulative update for July […]

Toys”R”Us premiered a film made with OpenAI’s artificial intelligence text-to-video tool Sora at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival. “The Origin of Toys”R”Us” was produced by the company’s entertainment production division Toys”R”Us Studios, and creative agency Native Foreign, who scored alpha access to Sora since OpenAI hasn’t released it to the public yet. That makes Toys”R”Us […]

Wix, one of the best website builders, just introduced a new tool, allowing Figma designers to import their work into Wix Studio more easily. The tool, called Wix Studio Figma, is a plugin that allows designers to create dynamic web experiences more easily. The company claims Studio’s built-in robust native business solutions, as well as […]

Google is working on creating artificial intelligence-powered chatbots mimicking famous people and fictional characters, according to a report from The Information. These AI celebrities, YouTube influencers, and imaginary people will also serve as a template for users to build their own generative AI chatbots with customized personalities and appearances. At first glance, these chatbots sound […]

Weird audio mixing is a really annoying problem. How many times have you watched a video or movie where the audio sounds fine only for the dialog to be super quiet?  Google is helping audiences out by expanding YouTube’s Stable Volume feature from the mobile app to “Android TV and Google TV devices.” It’s a […]

The Prince Charles Cinema in London canceled the world premiere of “The Last Screenwriter” after receiving complaints over the use of ChatGPT to write the film’s script. Swiss director Peter Luisi employed the generative artificial intelligence chatbot to write the film and gave the AI the screenwriting credit. Aptly enough for a script composed by […]

Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot has long been one of the best ChatGPT alternatives and now a big update has taken it to another level – including beating OpenAI’s GPT-4o model in some industry standard benchmark tests. Like Google Gemini, Claude is a family of three different AI models. The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet (which takes […]

When the Meta Quest 3 was unveiled I was impressed by a lot of what it had to offer in both the virtual- and mixed-reality departments, but by far the most interesting feature was Augments – persistent MR elements that you can use to decorate your home. As we approach the one-year mark since the […]

Microsoft has revealed a new tactic in its campaign to persuade Windows 11 users to switch to the Edge browser – and it’s a 3D banner, no less. I suppose that’s a bit different from the usual nags I’ve seen from Microsoft, which has tried so hard, for so very long, to cajole users into […]

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini can do a lot of things, but one thing they aren’t renowned for is their sense of humor – and a new study confirms that they’d likely get torn to shreds on the stand-up comedy circuit. The recent Google DeepMind study (as spotted by the MIT Technology Review) […]

Amazon has spent a good portion of 2024 working on an upgrade for Alexa. Rumors from last month said the tech giant sought to implement AI tech into their assistant allowing it to compete with the likes of ChatGPT.  Now, as part of a new report, Reuters recently spoke to “eight current and former employees […]

What’s going to drive Copilot+ PC sales, do you think? Superb AI acceleration chops? Windows on Arm getting emulation nailed for fast app and gaming performance (on Snapdragon X models)? No – it’s the Copilot key on the keyboard, dummy. Surprised? Well, we certainly are, but apparently one of Microsoft’s selling points for Copilot+ PCs […]

Microsoft has seemingly pulled its Recall feature – the AI-powered search that screenshots your PC activity and has caused controversy aplenty – not just from Copilot+ PCs at launch, but now from Windows 11 test builds, too. If you cast your mind back to a week ago, June 14, Microsoft came forth with an announcement […]

Perhaps one of the most annoying bugs in Windows 11 has finally been addressed and fixed by Microsoft in the latest update for the OS. The glitch in question caused visual distortions in videos in Chromium-based browsers for some Windows 11 users, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera. The level of distortion changes from […]

Microsoft has acknowledged that there’s a bug introduced by recent Windows 10 updates that can break a piece of taskbar functionality – but the good news is a fix is in the works. The problem is evident for some Windows 10 users when right clicking on a pinned app on the taskbar, when instead of […]

Windows 11 could put your iPhone or Android device right into the heart of the Start menu, in a manner of speaking – or at least the Phone Link app is apparently headed this way. That’s according to clues unearthed by MS Power User, which reported on whispers from Windows 11 testers to the effect […]

AI video generators like OpenAI’s Sora, Luma AI’s Dream Machine, and Runway Gen-3 Alpha have been stealing the headlines lately, but a new Google DeepMind tool could fix the one weakness they all share – a lack of accompanying audio. A new Google DeepMind post has revealed a new video-to-audio (or ‘V2A’) tool that uses a […]

The Apple Vision Pro recently celebrated its first birthday, but the headset may already be losing momentum – a new report suggests that Apple has now halted work on its high-end successor. According to The Information, Apple has “told at least one supplier that it has suspended work on its next high-end headset.” The reason for […]

Reactions to Apple Intelligence, which Apple unveiled at WWDC 2024, have ranged from curious to positive to underwhelmed, but whatever your views on the technology itself, a big talking point has been Apple’s emphasis on privacy, in contrast to some companies that have been offering generative AI products for some time.  Apple is putting privacy […]

Audio brand Sonos is ruffling the feathers of its user base again after it was discovered the company had made an important update to its private policy. As pointed out by YouTuber and repair technician Louis Rossman, the change affects the “How We May Share Personal Information” section.  The old policy had a line that […]

June 2024 has been a big month for Pixel smartphones. Not only did Gemini Nano roll out to the Pixel 8a, but Google also released a huge security update to multiple models.  It addresses 50 vulnerabilities, ranging in severity from moderate to critical. One of the more insidious flaws is CVE-2024-32896, which Tom’s Guide states […]

Microsoft recently announced that it’s resurrecting the Beta channel for Windows 10 in order to test new features – which means, yes, the OS is officially being actively worked on – and the very first preview build has arrived in this channel. The not-so-exciting news is that build 19045 (aka KB5039299) for Windows 10 22H2 […]

Windows 11’s Recall feature has been causing controversy recently, so much so that Microsoft has actually halted the feature in its tracks (for now) – but a new discovery won’t fan any of those particular flames. In fact, it could well prove useful for those who eventually take the plunge with the now-delayed AI-powered functionality. […]

Alongside a roar of applause for the Calculator app for iPad at Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote, the crowd seemed pretty happy with the debut of Passwords as well. It’s an aptly named app that takes the popular password manager feature of iCloud Keychain and gives it a home outside of Settings.  Passwords is a dedicated […]

The text-to-video AI boom has really kicked off in the past few months, with the only downside being that the likes of OpenAI Sora still aren’t available for us to try. If you’re tired of waiting, a new rival called Dream Machine just landed – and you can take it for a spin right now. Dream […]

With the unveiling of visionOS 2.0 for the Vision Pro at WWDC 24, Apple introduced many new features but left my wish to open up environments ungranted. Even so, aside from new display options for Mac Virtual Display and more control gestures, there is one feature that stands out from the rest. When I reviewed […]

When Apple introduced macOS Sequoia and its new iPhone Mirroring capability, I didn’t get it. Now, though, after seeing it in action and considering some non-obvious use cases, I may be ready to reconsider. Apple unveiled the latest AI-infused version of macOS during its WWDC 2024 keynote, which also saw major updates to iOS, iPadOS, […]

Windows 11 and 10 users, you can breathe a sigh of relief for a moment, as there’s news that’s not about sticking more AI into the heart of Windows 11, or about Windows 10’s seemingly unavoidable end – although I don’t know if this development will be a cause for joy. Microsoft is fully rolling […]

So yes, most of the new AI-infused or AI-powered features coming to iOS, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 Sequoia are powered by Apple Intelligence using either on-device or in the Private Compute Cloud. And yes, that goes for the vast majority of Siri’s new intelligence and new powers, as well.  But Apple is giving users […]

The Apple WWDC 2024 keynote is always one of the highlights of the tech calendar, and this year’s edition was bigger than most. That’s because, as widely predicted, Tim Cook used the occasion to reveal Apple Intelligence – arguably the biggest development in Apple-land since… well, the reveal of the Vision Pro last year.  As […]