Tag: small businesses

Yousician’s Metallica guitar course can help unleash your inner Eddie Munson

Just as it is to Eddie Munson in Stranger Things 4, Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” is, to me, the “most metal ever.” I spent my teen years obsessively learning the guitar, and Metallica was one of my biggest influences. The combination of vocalist and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield’s thrash riffs…

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Google Calendar is getting better at weeding out spam invites

Google Calendar has released a new update for an issue that it promised to fix three years ago. The “known senders” feature will finally let you block invitations from people you don’t know that can effectively spam up your calendar. With the “Only if the sender is known” toggle enabled…

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How to get the most out of Google Drive

Google Drive is an incredibly powerful tool for storing and organizing all sorts of data. And best of all, it’s available to anyone with a Google account for free (at least to start). Additionally, because Drive holds all your files in the cloud, it offers some important advantages compared to…

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Meta’s ‘Make-A-Scene’ AI blends human and computer imagination into algorithmic art

Text-to-image generation is the hot algorithmic process right now, with OpenAI’s Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini) and Google’s Imagen AIs unleashing tidal waves of wonderfully weird procedurally generated art synthesized from human and computer imaginations. On Tuesday, Meta revealed that it too has developed an AI image generation engine, one that…

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Google makes it easier for your stuff to sync between Android phones and Chromebooks

Google is rolling out Chrome OS version 103, which includes features that will make it easier for users to share things between Chromebooks and Android devices. For one thing, as the company announced at CES, Phone Hub is getting an upgrade. From your Chromebook, you’ll instantly be able to access…

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Oura collaborated with Gucci to make an 18 carat gold smart ring

Oura, the startup that’s pushing the limits of how small a wearable can be, just announced a collaboration that could boost its profile considerably. It’s teaming with fashion house Gucci on the Gucci x Oura Ring, crafted in black synthetic corundum and adorned with the famous interlocking “G” and a…

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