Tag: Software
Apple’s ‘AI crisis’ could mean EU users will have the option to swap Siri for another default voice assistant
“In response to EU regulatory pressure” Apple could be working to let users in Europe switch to third-party voice assistants over Siri The move comes amid indefinite delays to AI-powered Siri upgrades originally planned for March 31 Executives are showing concern for the future of the company, as Apple falls…
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Google’s AI Overviews are often so confidently wrong that I’ve lost all trust in them
Have you Googled something recently only to be met with a cute little diamond logo above some magically-appearing words? Google’s AI Overview combines Google Gemini’s language models (which generate the responses) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, which pulls the relevant information. In theory, it’s made an incredible product, Google’s search engine, even…
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Forget the Force, AI brings the late James Earl Jones’ iconic Darth Vader voice to Fortnite
You can now speak with Darth Vader in Fortnite Disney and Epic Games announced the revival of Darth Vader’s iconic voice thanks to the power of AI James Earl Jones died in 2024, but his voice lives on Disney and Epic Games have confirmed Darth Vader’s iconic voice will be…
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A compact biodegradable battery with fungal paper electrodes is what researchers at this university are dreaming of
Mycelium might power electronics someday, if it stops biodegrading before the job is done The split-gill mushroom’s extracellular matrix may be the key to future green batteries Scientists dream of compostable batteries, but controlling fungal behavior remains a major challenge Researchers from Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science…
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She let ChatGPT read her coffee grounds – then filed for divorce
A Greek couple thought it would be fun to use ChatGPT as a fortune-teller and have it “read” coffee grounds in their cups ChatGPT claimed the husband was cheating with someone whose name starts with E The wife is now filing for divorce over the AI tasseography response A woman…
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I discovered the world’s smallest external SSD, and at just 2.8g, it is dangerously small enough to be mistaken for a yummy snack
Suneast Portable SSD Nano is smaller than a coin Weighing just 2.8g, the drive is easy to carry and just as easy to lose Read and write speeds are decent, but far from what power users might expect today We’ve seen some impressively small SSDs over the years, and some,…
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