Month: June 2024
The much-needed reinvention of the voice assistant is almost here
Voice assistants hold so much promise, but in the decade-plus since Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa first wormed their ways into our lives, their most compelling use is still setting timers. Competition from Google’s Assistant (and if we’re being charitable, Samsung’s Bixby) failed to light the spark of innovation in…
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The Morning After: Microsoft pauses its creepy Recall AI feature
Microsoft has belatedly cottoned on to the whole “using AI to watch someone’s screen might be a bit creepy” thing. It has announced it will limit the launch of Recall, which was due to arrive alongside the first batch of Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs on June 18. Instead, it will…
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The Samsung Galaxy S25’s battery might not impress – or overly disappoint
Samsung seems reluctant to increase the battery capacity of its standard flagships above 4,000mAh. It reached that capacity with the Samsung Galaxy S20 before reducing it for the Galaxy S22 and S23, and then returning to 4,000mAh with the Samsung Galaxy S24 – and we might get that same 4,000mAh…
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Picsart teams up with Getty to take on Adobe’s ‘commercially-safe’ AI
Image and video-editing platform Picsart has teamed up with Getty Images to launch a “responsible, commercially-safe” AI image generator that’s trained exclusively on the stock image platform’s licensed content. Picsart says its AI lab is building a custom model from scratch that will power the tool, allowing the platform’s paid…
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Avowed developer admits combat didn’t ‘look great’ but has been hard at work on improving it
Obsidian Entertainment, the developer behind the upcoming role-playing game Avowed is working on improving the upcoming role-playing game’s combat based on player feedback from January’s Xbox Developer Direct. At the time of that presentation, the game’s combat was criticized for appearing a little listless in its combat. In an interview…
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LinkedIn wants you to use AI tools to find your next job
LinkedIn has unveiled plans to shake up career development by integrating even more AI into its platform, this time to help coaching within LinkedIn Learning. With its latest injection of artificial intelligence, LinkedIn hopes to address the gap in accessible career advice for users on its platform. The company revealed…
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