From ExtremeTech: The internet is a big, sometimes tremendously scary place, and your personal information is floating around in it. Google is rolling out a tool to help you keep a lid on your sensitive contact information, building on an older feature that required some legwork. Now, all you have...
From CNET: Google has added a new artificial intelligence-powered grammar checker in its search engine. While Gmail and Docs have had grammar and spelling checks for a while, this is a new feature for Search.
In a support page, Google says the grammar check feature uses "AI systems" to analyze...
How do you take on a scammer? Recently, I received a call on my cell phone from an unknown number. Normally, I do not pick up from unknown numbers, but since I was expecting a call from another institution, I swiped "Slide to Answer" on my phone just in case. The call started with a man talking about cryptocurrencies, how I am at risk of losing all my assets, and I can pay him to protect or recover the funds. I just laughed and told him I am at...
A week back, we had a bachelor party for the Editor-in-Chief, and we went to several places around town to race, game, and hang out. One visit included Speeders Calgary, which is an indoor electric go-kart course. With our group of twelve guys, we split into two preliminary heats to give us our first set of best lap times. After the preliminary heats, the next set of time trials would group the faster and slower six drivers together. In my...
From The Verge: This April through June quarter is almost always Apple’s most boring financial stretch of the entire year, and today’s earnings release shows this year was no exception. The company reported revenue of $81.8 billion, down from $83 billion last year. With the new iPhone 15 series...
From Tom's Hardware: Having experienced two consecutive quarterly losses, Intel bounced back to profitability in the second quarter and is looking positively toward the second half of the year. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger expressed optimism about the company's future in a conversation with Yahoo Finance...
From PC Mag: Spending less time on ChatGPT? You're not alone.
Worldwide traffic to the popular chatbot continued to fall in June and July, according(Opens in a new window) to Similarweb, which tracks website and app visits.
Similarweb noticed an initial traffic dip a month ago. It now reports...
From PC World: If you’re having a tough day at work, consider that it could always be worse. For example, someone over at AMD licensee PowerColor is in a heap of hurt right now, because the company accidentally posted a full listing for the Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card, complete with...
From TechCrunch: India is delaying the implementation of its import limitations on laptops, tablets and servers a day after the unexpected regulation left electronic industry giants in a state of disruption and uncertainty.
New Delhi will provide a “transition period” before implementing the...
From PC Mag: So long, Cortana. Microsoft is retiring the voice assistant’s Windows app this month.
The company is now rolling out an update for some Windows users that effectively disables the Cortana app. The update causes the software to only show(Opens in a new window) a page that says the...
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