Tag: computing
Google Chrome update aims to supercharge your web browsing with three AI features
Chrome on desktop is set to receive a new series of AI-powered features across several updates that aim to help people find products on the internet. There will be three in total with the first one being a change in how Google Lens functions allowing it to behave similarly to…
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A Taco Bell AI is either the best idea of the 21st century or one that’s going to make you question your choices
The voice taking your order for a Doritos Locos taco at the Taco Bell drive-thru might belong to an AI server. Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands is spreading its voice AI feature to hundreds of new locations across the U.S. The Mexican food chain has found early success with…
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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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