Month: February 2024
Grounded and Pentiment are Microsoft’s first Xbox-exclusive games for Nintendo Switch
Grounded and Pentiment are the first previously Xbox-exclusive games to arrive on Nintendo Switch. Obsidian’s 2D narrative adventure role-playing game Pentiment will launch on Switch tomorrow, followed by Grounded, the survival co-op that’s a combination of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and A Bug’s Life, on April 16th. Both games were confirmed…
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Microsoft finally teaches Copilot AI some new tricks – but is this enough to stop Windows 11 users getting impatient?
Windows 11 just received improvements in testing to make its Copilot AI more useful with implementing changes in the actual OS environment – in other words, the features that we’re all waiting for. Copilot has a pretty limited repertoire in terms of what the AI can do for manipulating Windows…
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How to Dry Off a Soaked iPhone (Don’t Use Rice)
Most phones are waterproof these days, but not all of them. Here’s what to do—and what not to do—if your device takes a dunking. Source
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Google Gemma: because Google doesn’t want to give away Gemini yet
Google has released Gemma 2B and 7B, a pair of open-source AI models that let developers use the research that went into its flagship Gemini more freely. While Gemini is a big closed AI model that directly competes with (and is nearly as powerful as) OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the lightweight Gemma…
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The Morning After: Fujifilm updates its TikTok-famous compact camera
Fujifilm’s X100V was, for some reason, a huge hit on TikTok. This made it hard to buy, despite its tiny form factor and retro Fuji appeal. Fortunately, the company is here to make money offer an improved update, the 40.2-megapixel X100 VI. While keeping the same retro form, it has…
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Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI so you can talk to your PDF
Adobe has jumped about the generative AI bandwagon by rolling out its own AI Assistant across Acrobat and Reader. The generative AI-powered conversational tool, currently in beta, is set to provide summaries, answer questions, and help with formatting information to share via email within the popular PDF apps. Though most…
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