Tag: computing
Remember Skype? Well now it’s ad-free again, which will be a refreshing change for Windows 11 users
Remember Skype? Well, it’s still around, and while the likes of Google Meet and Microsoft Teams might hog the communications spotlight now, Microsoft is still working on Skype – and is hoping to make it more popular by killing the ads in the app and adding (you guessed it) AI…
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Get ready for AI to serve Google Search-style ads
AI conversational search engine Perplexity is taking a page from Google’s advertising playbook with a new sponsorship scheme. Companies will be able to pay for one of the “related follow-up questions” users see when they ask Perplexity to research something. The paid question will be labeled as such, like the…
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The original Apple Computer cost $666.66, but you can get Steve Jobs’ Polaroids of it for $2148
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to price his new Apple-1 computer, he chose a price roughly three times what it cost to build it: $666.66. The price made his cofounder and chief system designer Steve Wozniak laugh because of its proximity to a joke line he used to dial,…
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Google is trying to delete and bury explicit deepfakes from search results
Google is dramatically upping its efforts to combat the appearance of explicit images and videos created with AI in search results. The company wants to make it clear that AI-produced non-consensual deepfakes are not welcome in its search engine. The actual images may be prurient or offensive in some other…
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Turn your selfie into an action star with this new AI image-to-video feature
Artificial intelligence-powered video maker Runway has added the promised image-to-video feature to its Gen-3 model released a few weeks ago, and it may be as impressive as promised. Runway has enhanced the feature to address its biggest limitations in the Gen-2 model released early last year. The upgraded tool is…
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macOS Sonoma 14.6 unlocks dual display capability for the MacBook Pro 14-inch M3 at last
Apple just released a new version of macOS, and with the update to Sonoma 14.6, an important new feature has been brought to the base model (vanilla M3) of the MacBook Pro 14-inch – namely support for dual displays. With macOS Sonoma 14.6 installed, owners of this MacBook Pro model…
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