Month: December 2024
How ChatGPT helps me keep my kids entertained over the holiday period and into 2025
The holidays are a magical time, but let’s face it: keeping a young child and a few energetic nieces and nephews entertained during those long winter breaks can be challenging. Enter ChatGPT. While mainly used for adults, the AI-powered chatbot has more than a little Mary Poppins in its features.…
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YouTube Premium is the only digital subscription I’m keeping for the whole of 2025 –here’s why
The cost of digital subscriptions can quickly add up, month on month: for AI chatbots, cloud storage, media publications, dating apps, photo editing software, fitness programs, VPN tools, gaming subscriptions, the best streaming services, and more. When you’re looking to save some money, it’s often one of the first places…
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The FTC’s Microsoft antitrust probe reportedly focuses on software bundling
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly investigating Microsoft like it’s 1998. In the waning days of the Biden administration, outgoing chair Lina Khan’s probe is said to be picking up steam, according to ProPublica. The FTC is particularly concerned with Microsoft’s bundling of ubiquitous Office products with cybersecurity and…
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The Batman 2 is delayed to 2027, but Mickey 17’s release date is moving up
If you’ve been waiting patiently to see how Matt Reeves’ story for The Batman continues once the reboot’s sequel arrives, you’ll have to wait a little longer. It was once set to open October 2nd, 2026, after an initial delay caused by the Hollywood writers’ strike derailed Warner Bros. plans…
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Forget all the fancy writing apps: I wrote a novel in Google Docs and it had everything I needed
In the words of comedian and gamemaster Brennan Lee Mulligan pretending to be George R.R. Martin: “Have you ever tried to write? It’s the saddest, hardest, worst thing in the world.” As much as I love his comedic chops, Mulligan is wrong on this count – I consistently find that…
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You can now rent Google’s most powerful AI chip: Trillium TPU underpins Gemini 2.0 and will put AMD and Nvidia on high alert
Trillium has hit general availability just months after preview release Powerful AI chip offers more than four times the training performance Google uses it to train Gemini 2.0, the company’s advanced AI model Google has been developing Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), its custom AI accelerators, for over a decade, and…
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