From CNET: Comcast on Monday announced Xfinity Shield, a home-security platform that taps into Xfinity Wi-Fi in new ways. It adds WiFi Motion, which uses compatible Xfinity Wi-Fi routers to detect movement in the home without cameras or dedicated motion sensors. WiFi Motion and other Shield...
From ComputerWorld: AI is known to be confidently wrong, and now it’s influencing humans to be that way, too.
In a new study, researchers tested AI’s influence on humans reviewing innovation proposals, and found that AI recommender tools were persuasive enough to convince the evaluators to reject...
From PC Mag: Consumer Cellular is making its wireless service a little more passport-compatible through a partnership with the eSIM provider Airalo.
The popular reseller of AT&T’s network now presents that prepaid international roaming service as its primary solution for travel outside the US and...
From PC World: Soon, Claude will be watermarking all its text outputs, and those watermarks will be invisible, Anthropic has been telling us. The big question, of course, is whether those watermarks will change the meaning — or lower the quality — of what Claude writes.
Anthropic gave a nuanced...
From CNET: Firefox’s AI-integrated Smart Window is getting a few new features meant to help people pick up their work right where they left off. The features, announced Tuesday, should make it easier to find answers, organize tabs together and see what you were working on earlier.
To make answers...
From PC Mag: OpenAI boosted ChatGPT’s Google Drive plug-in last week with a new capability that lets the chatbot access and edit Drive files and folders within the chatbot window.
The update began rolling out on Aug. 13 and is available for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Edu, Healthcare, and...
From PC World: On a week when AI watermarking is a hot topic, Google has just announced that Gemini will let you drop the visible watermarks from created images and videos.
Of course, “visible” is the key word here, with Google exec Josh Woodward explaining in a social post that invisible SynthID...
From CNET: A federal judge in California ruled this week that Google must stop making it difficult for consumers to install third-party Android app stores, saying the corporate giant was using “anticompetitive friction” to prevent people from doing so.
It was the latest chapter in the years-long...
In between the two cities of Calgary and Edmonton, there is a smaller place right in between called Red Deer. Every time I drive between the two larger cities, I think about stopping in the middle before I realize I have no reason to do so. However, one thing that is visible from the highway is a large windmill built on top of a store called Donut Mill. I have always wanted to go there because of the whimsical nature of the building and donuts...
From PC Mag: SpaceX appears to have developed its first Wi-Fi 7 router for Starlink, according to a new regulatory filing.
On Thursday, the company received an equipment authorization for the router from the Federal Communications Commission, which a user on Reddit spotted.
The device is called...
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