Tag: Software

Forget Ray-ban – Meta’s next smart glasses just got a surprise launch date and an exciting new partner

Meta has just announced it’s partnering with Oakley on something new Most likely, this is the long-rumored Oakley smart glasses We’ll find out more on June 20 Oakley and Meta are officially partnering on something – I mean, it’s smart glasses, right? – and we’ll be finding out everything about…

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Here’s why you should be excited about Audio Overviews coming to Google Search

Google is testing the NotebookLM feature Audio Overviews in Search The feature will offer short, AI-generated audio summaries for certain queries. The feature uses Gemini models to deliver podcast-style explanations with clickable links. I’ve been a fan of the Audio Overviews feature in Google’s NotebookLM since I first experimented with…

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Android 16 is out on all eligible Pixel phones, with new live update notifications feature

Google has released Android 16 to the masses, as it’s now available for compatible handsets. The company says new devices will come preloaded with the OS in “the coming months.” As usual, it’s first coming to Google’s own Pixel phones. The update includes several notable features. The biggest one might…

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Would you buy your child a ChatGPT‑powered Barbie? I’m queasy at the prospect of a real‑life Small Soldiers scenario

Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to build AI‑powered toys, which might lead to some amazing fun, but also sounds like the premise for a million stories of things going wrong. To be clear, I don’t think AI is going to end the world. I’ve used ChatGPT in a million ways,…

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OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature, and I find it makes working way more efficient

OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature to remember past chats, tone preferences, and files Projects now offers deep research, voice mode, mobile file uploads, and more OpenAI wants Projects to function more like smart workspaces than one-off chats ChatGPT’s Projects feature has been a useful way to organize conversations with…

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I tried Portraits: Google’s new way of turning real-life experts into your own personal AI life coach

Google’s new Portraits experiment lets users chat with AI avatars modeled on real experts. The project’s first Portrait is Radical Candor author Kim Scott. The avatar delivers advice based on Scott’s actual content and was developed with her direct involvement. Google is testing out a tool to connect people with…

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