Month: October 2024
ChatGPT’s new ‘Canvas’ is the AI collaborator you didn’t know you needed
ChatGPT has been writing text and software code since it debuted, but any fine-tuning of your prompt has required a full rewrite. OpenAI released a new feature called Canvas that offers a shared, editable page where ChatGPT can mimic a human collaborator and repeatedly edit or offer feedback on the…
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The new Ford Expedition adds Android Automotive and half of the Lincoln’s panoramic screen
The new Expedition, which is first being teased with a drone light show today in Texas, looks like it has only the left half of the Lincoln’s 48-inch pillar-to-pillar panoramic display, leaving behind just a 24-inch panel for the Expedition. You’re getting the same instrument cluster and navigation combo in…
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Port workers on the East and Gulf coasts agree to end their strikes
The International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. have reached a tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend the Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues. Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease…
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Disney Imagineer wants his amazing retractable lightsaber to become a toy
I think the company would like to do that. And I think Josh D’Amaro, our number two guy, our head of Disney Parks, said it at a public — I hope — meeting of toy vendors to say, hey, we’d like you to take what we have learned in terms…
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Watch what it’s like to handle an overturned truck full of burning batteries
A truck full of lithium-ion batteries was knocked over near the Port of Los Angeles on September 26th, exploded, and was left to burn for days — interrupting traffic on highways, and a bridge and shutting down port terminals. A local towing company, Pepe’s Towing Service, caught the explosion on…
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Apple releases iOS 18.0.1 with bug fixes for iPhone 16 touchscreen and more
This update provides important bug fixes and security updates for your iPhone including: Touch screen may be temporarily unresponsive in certain circumstances on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models Camera may freeze when recording macro mode video on the Ultra Wide camera in 4K with HDR turned off on…
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