Month: March 2023
How to take a screenshot on a Chromebook
Chromebooks are designed to be simple and straightforward, but if you’re new to Chrome OS, it may not be immediately obvious how to do certain things. One potential source of confusion is figuring out how to take a screenshot, since the keyboards built into most Chromebooks contain keys you won’t…
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Tim Sweeney explains how the metaverse might actually work
At its State of Unreal event at GDC, Epic announced… a lot of different things. There were animation tools for virtual humans, a sprawling digital asset marketplace, a new Fortnite creator economy, an Unreal Engine-powered creation tool for Fortnite, and more. But to wrap up the keynote, Epic’s outspoken CEO,…
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This fake ChatGPT Chrome Extension could compromise your Facebook account
Google has removed a ChatGPT extension from the Chrome Web Store that was stealing Facebook cookies – but not until about 9,000 people had installed the malicious bot. The compromising extension is called Chat GPT (notice the odd space in the name of the extension), which is nearly identical in…
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Github Copilot X uses GPT-4 to polish off your code
Following on from its success among developers with Copilot, GitHub has announced the next stage, Copilot X, which is designed to expand beyond the realms of code auto-completion. While Copilot was based on a GPT-3 descendant known as Codex, it will likely come as no surprise that the Microsoft-owned software…
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How and where to buy refurbished tech online
Yes, I’ll probably want the iPhone 15 when it comes out. But as I consider a tablet for my six-year-old (so he’ll stop stealing mine), I don’t think a brand new device is necessary. Both economically and environmentally, refurbished tech might be a better bet if you don’t need the…
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Shopify and Google Cloud integrate to eliminate online shopping search abandonment
Ecommerce platform (opens in new tab) Shopify has extended its partnership with Google Cloud to create a solution for search abandonment to hopefully retrieve sales as the end goals. In a bid to solve a pain point for retailers, Google Cloud’s Discovery AI solutions will be the latest integration available…
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