Users will be notified if an Assistant feature is being removed when they activate one of the utilities affected. | Illustration: The Verge Several “underutilized” Google Assistant features will soon be joining the infamous Google graveyard — such as the ability to use your voice to send an email, video, or audio messages — as
Read MoreCharisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Dudesy, a podcast generated by AI and curated by humans, releases an hour-long comedy special featuring an AI recreation of George Carlin, who died in 2008 — The hour-long special arrived from Dudesy, a podcast run by artificial intelligence … Following the special’s release …
Read MoreUgreen’s new NASync Kickstarter launches soon and shows off a storage solution with cloud support, a smart assistant, and up to 184TB of storage
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus Realme has confirmed that an upcoming device will offer the OnePlus 12’s 64MP 3x camera. The new phone is believed to be the Realme 12 Pro Plus. This device will also offer a flagship-tier main camera sensor. The OnePlus 12 was revealed in China last month, and one of the most notable additions
Read MoreAustralia’s eSafety commissioner has blasted the social media platform X after it found that over 6000 banned accounts have been reinstated following Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media giant. Australia’s eSafety Commissioner launched a scathing attack on the social media giant, formerly known as Twitter, stating it had created a “perfect storm for safety
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google plans to remove 17 “underutilized” Assistant features in February, including voice-controlled Play Books audiobooks, media alarms, and Calm meditation — Bard is the future of Assistant. Ahead of that happening, Google announced today that Assistant features with low usage will be removed in February.
Read MoreMoneycontrol: ByteDance plans to shut down music streaming service Resso in India on January 31, after removing the App Store and Google Play apps in mid-December 2023 — ByteDance said all existing users of Resso in India will be offered a full refund for the remainder of their subscription fees
Read MoreOpenAI finally launched the much-awaited GPT store, which allows users to purchase and sell different GPTs based on OpenAI’s large language models. The store serves as a marketplace for personalized AI applications, allowing users to access various AI applications. Some examples of customized applications, shared by OpenAI, include Khan Academy’s Code Tutor for learning coding
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google’s Gboard adds a physical keyboard toolbar on Android tablets, to access the clipboard, translation, and more, after adding stylus handwriting support — After rolling out the new stylus handwriting capabilities last month, Gboard now offers a physical keyboard toolbar on Android tablets.
Read MoreGoogle laid off hundreds of employees in its latest round of layoffs yesterday to cut costs. Looking forward, Google intends to focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and has cut tech jobs, in line with a rising number of layoffs across the industry. The key areas experiencing layoffs at the search giant include its core engineering
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: After announcing the $199 R1 “Large Action Model” AI handheld at CES, Rabbit sold 10,000 units in one day; second batch orders should ship in April to May 2024 — The R1, the pocket-size gadget from Rabbit that’s supposed to use your apps for you, has already sold out of
Read MoreMore than 4 million school records, including safety procedures, student medical files, and court documents, were also publicly accessible online.
Read MoreSuper bright, 100-inch panels are all the rage, and fully transparent screens are wowing attendees as well. Here’s all the TV tech making its way into your living room this year.
Read MoreCredit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority On January 26, 2024, Google will begin to remove nearly 20 Google Assistant features. These features include setting music alarms, invoking a stopwatch, and more. The company says it is doing this to free up resources to focus on features users care about the most. Traditionally, making a product
Read MoreResearchers in Beijing have discovered a way to turn succulents into supercapacitors to help store energy. While previous research has found ways to store energy in plants, it often required implants or other modifications to the plant itself to function. These foreign components might be rejected by the plant or hamper its natural functions leading
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority ChatGPT was facing an outage, with many users unable to log in and use the service. OpenAI’s status page confirmed a service degradation but not a service disruption. ChatGPT is now back, and service has resumed. Update, January 11, 2024 (07:09 AM ET): ChatGPT is back online. We can
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Google has released Android 14 QPR 2 Beta 3 for supported Pixels. This release includes many bug fixes and features that Google did not mention in its release notes. Android 14 is the flavor of the season, and the updates keep coming. Google has a branch of Android releases
Read MoreDespite the name, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has very little to do with the original Bluetooth, other than its use of the same 2.4 GHz frequencies. This is where [Dmitry] got the idea to use a 2.4 GHz nRF24L01+ module to implement his very own BLE device, without the typical BLE chipset. This should be
Read MoreHannah Miller / Bloomberg: PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in 2023 — A disastrous 2023 for crypto startups hasn’t dissuaded true believers. — Cryptocurrency startups had a brutal 2023 …
Read MoreDominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: PitchBook: female-founded US companies raised $44.4B out of $170.59B in VC funding in 2023; companies with all-female founding teams raised ~$3.1B, down 39% YoY — Female-founded companies in the U.S. raised $44.4 billion out of the $170.59 billion in venture capital allocated last year.
Read MoreElectric vehicle charging stations are still scarce in many parts of the US. The White House announced grants totaling $623 million to top up electric cars, bikes, and scooters.
Read More2023 was very much the year of the large language model. OpenAI’s GPT models, Meta’s Llama, Google’s PaLM, and Anthropic’s Claude 2 are all large language models, or LLMs, with many billions of parameters, trained on content from the internet, and used to generate text and code. To read this article in full, please click
Read MoreIf you define your infrastructure as code, shouldn’t your workflow automation use the same as-code approach? That’s how Flowpipe works. Define workflows with HCL (HashiCorp configuration language), then run them using a single binary that you deploy locally, in the cloud, or in any CI/CD pipeline. Flowpipe embodies the same architectural ingredients you’ll find in
Read MoreMartin Coulter / Reuters: London-based Hyperexponential, which offers math modeling tools to insurance companies to help price policies, raised $73M led by Battery Ventures — U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has backed London-based insurance startup Hyperexponential in a $73 million funding round, the insurance software company said on Thursday.
Read MoreCredit: Smartmania Renders of the Motorola Moto G Stylus (2024) have leaked, giving us a good look at the affordable smartphone with an integrated stylus. The phone also has a 3.5mm headphone jack. Android is all about choices, and that choice is reflected in the phone ecosystem. But for people who want a smartphone with
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