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OpenAI says it is rolling out web browsing and 70+ third-party plugins in beta to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week (Kristi Hines/Search Engine Journal)

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: OpenAI says it is rolling out web browsing and 70+ third-party plugins in beta to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week  —  Uncover new possibilities with ChatGPT web browsing and plugins beta features.  Available to ChatGPT Plus users who opt-in for experimental features.

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OpenAI says it is rolling out web browsing and 70+ third-party plugins in beta to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week (Kristi Hines/Search Engine Journal)

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: OpenAI says it is rolling out web browsing and 70+ third-party plugins in beta to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week  —  Uncover new possibilities with ChatGPT web browsing and plugins beta features.  Available to ChatGPT Plus users who opt-in for experimental features.

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Numerator: Amazon has a 3% US grocery market share including branded stores and Whole Foods; UBS: physical stores accounted for ~90% of US grocery sales in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Numerator: Amazon has a 3% US grocery market share including branded stores and Whole Foods; UBS: physical stores accounted for ~90% of US grocery sales in 2022  —  Amazon is still barely scratching the surface of the grocery market despite years of efforts.

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Tools of the Trade: Dirt Cheap or Too Dirty?

We’ve recently seen a couple reviews of a particularly cheap oscilloscope that, among other things, doesn’t meet its advertised specs. Actually, it’s not even close. It claims to be a 100 MHz scope, and it’s got around 30 MHz of bandwidth instead. If you bought it for higher frequency work, you’d have every right to

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A $499 Pixel Tablet is not a $100 Nest Hub replacement

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority You’re not alone if you’re a little unsure what Google’s strategy for its smart home ecosystem is right now. Shortly after killing off support for third-party smart displays, Mountain View launched the Pixel Tablet at Google I/O 2023 — a dockable large screen with built-in Google Home functionality. In

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Doc: India launched a probe into Google after a complaint from Match Group and Indian startups that Google’s new User Choice Billing system is anti-competitive (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Doc: India launched a probe into Google after a complaint from Match Group and Indian startups that Google’s new User Choice Billing system is anti-competitive  —  India’s competition watchdog has begun an inquiry into Google after some companies alleged the service fee the U.S. firm charges …

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A $499 Pixel Tablet is not a $100 Nest Hub replacement

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority You’re not alone if you’re a little unsure what Google’s strategy for its smart home ecosystem is right now. Shortly after killing off support for third-party smart displays, Mountain View launched the Pixel Tablet at Google I/O 2023 — a dockable large screen with built-in Google Home functionality. In

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Can Google’s Pixel Fold really hang?

For US buyers, the Pixel Fold is the first credible alternative to Samsung’s Galaxy Fold series. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s debut foldable makes a strong first impression. But if recent Pixels are anything to go by, the company has a lot to prove when it comes to performance and dependability.

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Netflix has become an avatar for the striking writers’ complaints, as the streaming era eroded working conditions, stagnated wages, and disrupted residual pay (New York Times)

New York Times: Netflix has become an avatar for the striking writers’ complaints, as the streaming era eroded working conditions, stagnated wages, and disrupted residual pay  —  Fear of protests prompted the streaming giant to shift an anticipated presentation for advertisers to a virtual event and a top executive to skip an honorary gala.

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The open-source AI boom is precarious because it is built on top of giant models like LLaMA and GPT-3, and could collapse if Meta and OpenAI decide to shut shop (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: The open-source AI boom is precarious because it is built on top of giant models like LLaMA and GPT-3, and could collapse if Meta and OpenAI decide to shut shop  —  Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation.  But if top companies get spooked,

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Passively Generating Power Day and Night Takes The Right Parts

A thermoelectric generator (TEG) can turn a temperature difference into electricity, and while temperature differentials abound in our environment, it’s been difficult to harness them into generate practical and stable sources of power. But researchers in China have succeeded in creating a TEG that can passively and continuously generate power, even across shifting environmental conditions.

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Germany plans to spend billions to subsidize its chip industry and secure the “oil of the 21st century”, as some believe the move does not make economic sense (Guy Chazan/Financial Times)

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany plans to spend billions to subsidize its chip industry and secure the “oil of the 21st century”, as some believe the move does not make economic sense  —  The Scholz government is spending billions subsidising the country’s semiconductor industry.  Some believe it does not make economic sense

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Google Search changes could significantly decrease publishers’ traffic and affiliate revenue, but the Perspectives section may highlight individual journalists (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: Google Search changes could significantly decrease publishers’ traffic and affiliate revenue, but the Perspectives section may highlight individual journalists  —  A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers’ sites, as more people …

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Tiny Bitcoin Miner Plays The Lottery

Usually when we think of Bitcoin miners, we imagine huge facilities of server racks doing nothing but essentially wasting energy, all for the chance that one of those computers amongst the rows will stumble upon the correct set of numbers to get rewarded with imaginary money. The idea being that the more computers, the more

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