Month: February 2024
Toward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use
The most important thing to know about social media is this: Most people don’t post. You know this. I know this. God knows this. I am going to limit my analysis to text-based sites because video sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram are not my ministry. This analysis may…
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9 Good Deals on Smartwatches, Robot Vacuums, and Video Games
Happy February! Welcome the leap month with these snazzy deals on tech and games. Source
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Hey Google, I was using that button!
Every time another Google app or feature bites the dust — even a small, relatively inconsequential one — I get annoyed. Really annoyed. Here’s the thing: there are Google Assistant-equipped devices in three rooms of my relatively small house: living room, bedroom, and office. Which means, unfortunately, that when I…
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Apple didn’t release new iPads last year, and now its sales are way down
Tomorrow, Apple will launch its Vision Pro headset, marking the company’s most high-profile product launch since the original Apple Watch. And later this year, it will open up the iPhone’s App Store (at least in the EU) in new ways, offering developers more freedom — even if some of them…
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The Arc Browser is getting new AI-powered features that try to browse the web for you
Earlier this week, the team behind the Arc browser for Mac (and recently Windows) released a brand-new iPhone app called Arc Search. As you might expect, it’s infused with AI to power an experience where the app “browses for you”—pulling together a variety of sources of info across the internet…
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OpenAI says there’s only a small chance ChatGPT will help create bioweapons
OpenAI’s GPT-4 only gave people a slight advantage over the regular internet when it came to researching bioweapons, according to a study the company conducted itself. Bloomberg reported that the research was carried out by the new preparedness team at OpenAI, which was launched last fall in order to assess…
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