Month: November 2024
This voice controlled AI might one day replace your mouse and keyboard
Anthropic’s experiments with giving Claude AI control of your computer are taking a new tone, literally. Voice control could potentially change how you get your device to operate. The AI assistant developer has teamed with Hume AI and its new Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) 2 to give Claude a grasp…
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Early Kindle Black Friday Deals and Amazon Device Sales (2024)
The brand-new Kindle lineup is already on sale, and so are many other Amazon products, from Eero routers to Echo speakers. Source
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The best Black Friday deals on AirPods, MacBooks, and other Apple tech
Since the beginning of November, Amazon and other retailers have been releasing a steady drip of early Black Friday deals. However, now that we’re officially just a few days out from the main event, it feels like there are more deals than ever — and they’re getting better by the…
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Zoom 2.0 relaunches as an AI-first company without video in its name
Zoom is changing its name from Zoom Video Communications Inc. to just Zoom Communications Inc. In a post on the company blog, Zoom Communications CEO Eric Yuan writes that Zoom is now an “AI-first work platform for human connection” that delivers “modern, hybrid work solutions.” It’s a muddy, if vague,…
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Drake says UMG and Spotify used bots and payola to make ‘Not Like Us’ seem popular
In 2024, UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices, to “break through the noise” on Spotify, and likely other music platforms. It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves with a song, “Not Like Us.” in order to make that…
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Google and the DOJ make their final arguments in the ad tech monopoly case
Google and the Department of Justice met one final time in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom to debate the future of Google’s online ad tech juggernaut. Over about three hours of closing arguments, attorneys for each side delivered their last arguments before US District Court judge Leonie Brinkema, who is expected…
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