Month: February 2023
Rolls-Royce Spectre EV First Drive: Elegant, Understated, Silent
WIRED got two hours behind the wheel of a preproduction prototype of what might be the ultimate high-end EV. It wasn’t enough. Source
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How to watch Google’s Live from Paris search and AI event
Google just announced this week it’s working on a conversational AI system called Bard, which is powered by its internal LaMDA AI model. Now, based on its many years of researching AI, Google sounds like it’s ready to take on AI systems like DALL-E and, more prominently, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The…
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Tinder’s incognito mode hides your profile from people you don’t like
Tinder now allows you to browse through profiles while staying hidden — but you’ll have to pay for it. In a post on Tinder’s newsroom, the dating app announced a new incognito mode that you can use to swipe through profiles without showing up in their recommendations feed unless you…
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Raphael Saadiq wants Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’s music to move you
Before the Disney Channel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur even introduces you to its eponymous kid supergenius and her time-displaced reptilian pal, a haunting, soulful tease of the show’s infectious theme song is one of the first ways it clues you into how it isn’t just any old superhero cartoon.…
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Microsoft’s new Bing and Edge hands-on: Surprisingly well-integrated AI
The age of generative AI is upon us, and this week alone Google and Microsoft made major announcements around their respective products for the masses. While Google unveiled an "experimental conversational AI service" called Bard yesterday, Microsoft had a fuller slate of news to share at its event in Redmond,…
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It turns out lots of us still want to use tablets at
Audio player loading… The latest Canalys (opens in new tab) data for global PC shipments is alarming, if not expected, with the final quarter of 2022 seeing a 21% decrease. In 2022, the world’s tech companies shifted 434.5 million PCs, a figure that includes laptops, desktops, and tablets. This is…
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