Tag: Software
The 6 best budgeting apps to replace Mint
More than 10 years and millions of users later, the popular budgeting app Mint has shut down for good. Parent company Intuit shuttered the app on March 24, 2024, and has prompted its users migrate to its other personal finance app, Credit Karma. I, along with 3.6 million others (as…
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Elon Musk brings controversial AI chatbot Grok to more X users in bid to halt exodus
Premium subscribers of all tiers for the X social media platform will soon gain access to its generative AI chatbot, Grok. Previously, the chatbot was only accessible to users who subscribed to the most expensive subscription tier, Premium+, for $16 a month (approximately £12 or AU$25). That’s set to change,…
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Microsoft says all AI laptops will have a dedicated Copilot button – but I don’t want that
Get ready, suckers, because the AI PC train is building up to full speed, engines burning – all aboard! Yes, Intel and Microsoft have revealed a new set of requirements for so-called ‘AI PCs’, those AI-powered laptops and desktops that Microsoft in particular has been pushing as of late, with…
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Want to skip to the good bit of a video? YouTube is testing a smart AI feature for that
I’ve been increasingly driven to distraction by YouTube’s ever-more-aggressive delivery of adverts before, during and after videos, which is making it a challenge to even get to the bits of a video that I want to see without having some earnest voice encourage me to trade stocks or go to…
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macOS has been riddled with bugs lately – but the new macOS 14.4.1 update has just fixed the most notorious one
The last few weeks have been plagued with bugs and oddities for users who updated their Mac devices to macOS Sonoma 14.4, including a particularly thorny issue that functionally broke a lot of users’ USB hubs. A new update, macOS 14.4.1, has just been released to address the most notorious…
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The Morning After: The EU is already investigating Apple, Meta and Google over fees and defensive policies
We had the first wave of changes and tweaks to Apple, Google and other big tech companies’ policies and services just before the EU’s sweeping Digital Markets Act (DMA) took a harder line against monopolistic behaviors and practices. See: third-party app stores with Apple, the option to pay for Facebook…
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