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Google Home is getting a set of new premade voice assistant actions. Google calls them pre-defined actions, but the point is, you can skip a lot of the busywork that makes actions in automations a time consuming endeavor. For example, new “pre-defined voice assistant actions” include announcing the weather, playing music, playing a podcast, telling … Continued
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The Pentagon has dramatically reduced the number of ships it had in the Caribbean ahead of the Maduro raid, moving vessels toward the Middle East. Read more ›
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The long-awaited cyberpunk platformer Replaced just got hit with a short delay. The pixel-art game was supposed to come out on March 12, but will now be released on April 14. That's just a month, which isn't that big of a deal considering this game has been on our radar for five years. Why the delay? Developer Sad Cat Studios notes that the game is "technically finished" but the team... Read more ›
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The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found. Read more ›
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A survey of 6,000 executives reveals a significant productivity disconnect, where 80% of firms report no measurable improvement to operations with the use of AI, while a third of senior leaders only use the technology themselves for just 1.5 hours per week. Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds has told The Register how Linux went from a solo hobby project on a single 386 PC in Helsinki to a genuinely collaborative effort, and the path involved crowdsourced checks, an FTP mirror at MIT, and a licensing decision that opened the floodgates. Torvalds released the first public snapshot, Linux 0.02, on October 5, 1991, on a Finnish FTP server -- about 10,000 lines of code that he... Read more ›
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The CEO said Horizon's redesign with two decks across an ultra-wide cabin captures lucrative cargo space that is unavailable on exisiting narrobodies. Read more ›
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Apple has positioned itself as an alternative to tech stocks dependent on the AI boom to grow. Read more ›
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An advert released to promote Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been banned after the UK's Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints that it "trivialised sexual violence" following an investigation. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: According to a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, this bug (tracked under CW1226324 and first detected on January 21) affects the Copilot "work tab" chat feature, which incorrectly reads and summarizes emails stored... Read more ›
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I feel for Avowed. It's a bit like an athlete that goes to an Olympics and makes it to a final but doesn't place. It's a great achievement, a success by many people's standards, but history doesn't care. Read more Read more ›
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Airlines are saying that AI is becoming an edge in running day-to-day operations — and a new source of risk that could quickly erode trust if it goes wrong. Read more ›
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Yoshua Bengio, known as a "godfather of AI" alongside fellow computer scientists like Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, said education " isn't just about acquiring the skills to get a job." Read more ›
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Local environmentalists warn that the island's marine ecosystem could be placed at great risk. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump spent much of the past year engineering price increases, financial panics, and trade wars. Nonetheless, despite his best efforts, he is presiding over a pretty good economy. Or so the headline statistics would suggest. Last week, a pair of government reports showed robust job growth and slowing inflation. Employers added 130,000 jobs […] Read more ›
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Welcome Captain Seven of Nine aboard the 'Enterprise' with IDW's new 'Star Trek' comic. Read more ›
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Levittown in Long Island, New York, was built in 1947 as a suburban community for America's growing families. Here's what it was like in the '50s. Read more ›
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For the 12 of us who woke up Tuesday morning wondering what we had missed on Monday’s late-night shows, CBS greeted us with a concerning development. Overnight, Stephen Colbert had laid into his network, dedicating time at the top of The Late Show to claim that CBS prohibited him from airing an interview with the […] Read more ›
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Nevada is taking action against the rapidly growing Wild West of prediction markets. The state's gambling regulators and attorney general sued Kalshi on Tuesday. They accuse the company of bypassing Nevada law by operating a sports gambling market without proper licenses. In addition, they say Kalshi provides services to individuals under 21, which violates state law.The lawsuit follows a federal appeals court’s rejection of Kalshi's request to prevent the state... Read more ›
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Android 17 Beta is officially live and we’ve got it up and running on a Pixel 10 Pro. You could have it on your device as well, since this is a beta build out of the gate, thanks to Google skipping the developer preview builds for this new version of Android. After a short mix-up … Continued Read the original post: Everything New in Android 17 Beta Read more ›
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Google has moved forward with its promise to bring AirDrop support to more phones. Today, the Search giant announced that the Pixel 9 series of phones now has AirDrop via Quick Share. In the briefest of announcements, Google said that Quick Share compatibility with AirDrop is available to the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel … Continued Read the original post: Google Brings AirDrop Support to Pixel 9 Read more ›
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Wouldn’t it be cool if the Now Playing service on your Pixel phone had its own app that could get new features more regularly and was easily updatable for Google? That could happen in the very near future. Spotted within version B.21 of Android System Intelligence, which currently powers Now Playing, Google is preparing a … Continued Read the original post: Google’s Pixel is Getting a Now Playing App Read more ›
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We have already seen a few Pixel 10a renders, but as we have gotten closer to a launch day, the quality of said renders has increased. Early renders usually start out as 3rd-party CAD renders, then renders from the OEM get leaked but they are low-res and don’t offer a lot of detail. This week, … Continued Read the original post: Pixel 10a Renders Show Flush Backside, Full Color Lineup Read more ›
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The Galaxy S26 Ultra launch is days away and we’ll then know all of the official specs, features, and reasons to buy one. More importantly, we’ll know the best Galaxy S26 Ultra deal that’ll get you the biggest savings and more. In previous Galaxy S launches, the pre-order period is the best moment to save … Continued Read the original post: Samsung’s Best Galaxy S26 Ultra Pre-Order Deal Read more ›
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T-Mobile announced this week that it has a new AI-powered feature on the way that’ll translate calls for its customers on their network. Rather than needing a device to do a similar translation (like a Pixel 10 does), T-Mobile wants any phone to be able to experience live translations when needed. Because this is the … Continued Read the original post: T-Mobile Will Start Doing Live Translation of Calls Read more ›
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Opening Google Photos on an iPhone this morning showed us an upcoming design change that could land on Android in the near future. Google appears to be readying a new bottom bar that takes on some style ideas from Apple’s newest design language, without bringing in that awful glass aesthetic. In the latest Google Photos … Continued Read the original post: Google Photos Gets a Fresh New Design Read more ›
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UPDATE FEBRUARY 13 – Google tried to ship out the first Android 17 Beta 1 update a couple of days ago, but something forced them to delay it slightly. They told us it was coming soon, yet didn’t provide a new date. Well, the update is now live. The first builds are CP21.260116.011.A1 for the … Continued Read the original post: Android 17 Beta 1 is Actually Here for Your... Read more ›
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Samsung is rumored to be preparing a wider Galaxy Z Fold phone for this year’s foldable launch. By “wide,” we simply mean that it’ll look closer to the original Pixel Fold than the current Galaxy Z Fold 7. Instead of a candybar-style device that unfolds into a square tablet, it would start as a wider … Continued Read the original post: Samsung’s Wide Galaxy Z Fold 8 Gets Potential First... Read more ›
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The Pixel 10a launch is days away and we’ll then know (from Google) all of the official specs, features, and whether or not they actually upgraded anything over the Pixel 9a. Once all of that is official, we should know about launch promos or pre-order deals that might get you a Pixel 10a for a … Continued Read the original post: Google’s Best Pixel 10a Pre-Order Deal Read more ›
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