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It looks like X (formerly Twitter) is getting spicier. Well, at least its Communities feature is. Admins will soon be able to label their subreddit-style groups as “adult content”, a move that comes hot on the heels of rumors swirling around X’s potential embrace of NSFW material.The news was dropped, almost casually, by X engineer Dong Wook Chung in a recent post. Chung hinted that “soon” your X feed might be a lot more filtered, with NSFW content automatically stashed away within Communities. The catch? Admins get to decide whether their Community gets the “Adult” label or not. This might…
Google Pixel users should prepare for a potentially smoother experience beginning with Android 15. For years, Google’s flagship devices have grappled with a phantom stutter that would plague scrolling across different apps and parts of the system UI. This jittery frustration even reared its ugly head on the new Pixel 8 line. But a recent announcement from Google may finally banish this glitch for good.Over on the Android Public Issue Tracker, an extensive thread reveals just how many folks feel the pain. Since October, the growing complaints of Pixel 8 and 8 Pro owners describing choppy scrolling experiences has caught…
The forthcoming iPhone 16 Pro is largely expected to have the same design as its predecessor but Apple may still manage to make it appear more striking if a new rumor is to be believed.On the flip side, compared to stainless steel which was previously used for the Pros, titanium made the edges of the new phones matte. And while some liked the brushed finish, others thought it was dull, with some considering polishing their new not-so-shiny phones.It looks like Apple isn’t a huge fan of the matte look either. According to Korean tipster yeux1122, the iPhone 16 Pro may feature…
Google’s experimental AI assistant, Gemini, seems to get more useful by the day. In the newest update to the Gemini app on the Google Play Store, Google’s given it some new skills when it comes to navigation.As reported by 9to5Google, the Google Gemini app received a Play Store update on March 25th. This update brings the app up to version 1.0.618909562, and includes the following notes in its changelog: “Now when you ask for directions Gemini will automatically start navigation with Google Maps”.This is a change to how the app worked in the past where this capability was not available natively…
Apple is supposedly in the process of developing its new wearable device, the Apple Ring. Samsung is said to be ready to unveil its first Galaxy Ring during the next Unpacked event to be held this summer and full-scale production of the device will reportedly start next quarter. After toying with the idea of making a smart ring for many years, Apple now seems ready to take on its rival. Starting back almost a decade, Apple filed for patents related to an Apple Ring including one for a ring that included a camera, and one for a ring that had NFC…
, is on sale at a gorgeous $150 discount on Amazon. This means you’ll get it for 15% off its price if you act fast and pull the trigger on this deal today! Galaxy Z Flip 5 256GB: Now $150 OFF on Amazon! Get the 256GB variant of the Galaxy Z Flip 5 on Amazon and save $150. The phone has great performance, takes beautiful photos, and is a real bargain right now. Act fast and score sweet savings today! $150 off (15%) We should note that this bad boy was discounted by 20% a few weeks ago, allowing you…
You know how Amazon’s smallest and cheapest smart speaker was on sale at a significantly lower price than usual last week for the e-commerce giant’s Big Spring event? While that sitewide deals festival is technically over now, the Echo Pop can somehow be purchased at an even heftier discount with a nice and handy smart bulb included.Although we’ve obviously seen this type of bundle sold at a special price before, it’s certainly not every day that the Echo Pop scores a $29.99 discount alongside an Amazon Basics Smart Color Bulb.That’s an incredible 56 percent slashed off a regular combined price…
Reben is OpenAI’s first artist in residence. Officially, the appointment started in January and lasts three months. But Reben’s relationship with the San Francisco–based AI firm seems casual: “It’s a little fuzzy, because I’m the first, and we’re figuring stuff out. I’m probably going to keep working with them.” In fact, Reben has been working with OpenAI for years already. Five years ago, he was invited to try out an early version of GPT-3 before it was released to the public. “I got to play around with that quite a bit and made a few artworks,” he says. “They were…
Ever feel like your smartphone knows you a little too well? It suggests restaurants you’d love, predicts your next text, and keeps trying to get you hooked on that weird cat-themed video game (we’ve all been there). Well, with the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) infiltrating the mobile tech scene, your phone might just get even better at understanding you.Last year, Google sprinkled AI magic all over its Pixel 8 series. Following suit, Samsung infused its Galaxy S24 series with AI prowess. But the Korean tech giant didn’t stop there – it extended its Galaxy AI to previous models like the Galaxy…
AI language models work by predicting the next likely word in a sentence, generating one word at a time on the basis of those predictions. Watermarking algorithms for text divide the language model’s vocabulary into words on a “green list” and a “red list,” and then make the AI model choose words from the green list. The more words in a sentence that are from the green list, the more likely it is that the text was generated by a computer. Humans tend to write sentences that include a more random mix of words. The researchers tampered with five different…
Recently, an eyebrow-raising story made the headlines. A T-Mobile customer faced with a $78,000 monthly bill, and nope, that’s not actually a story about someone getting scammed. This fee is actually… from roaming charges. And many other people have had similar situations when traveling abroad. In fact, if you’ve been like me and considered roaming charges to not be that big of a deal, then this article is for you. Here’s how to prevent a jaw-dropping invoice from your carrier after you’ve traveled. But before that…How did they owe $78,000 in charges?! As I already mentioned, the customer didn’t get scammed…
Did you miss out on Amazon’s Big Spring Sale festivities last week for some reason? Even though the e-commerce giant has technically ended that absolutely huge event, many of its best deals on some of the greatest phones, tablets, smartwatches, earbuds, and headphones money can buy in 2024 are still available.That’s probably not going to be the case much longer, however, and the same goes for the few Best Buy and Walmart promotions we’ve added to the below Amazon-dominated list to give you as many money-saving options as possible this week. On the whole, our latest deals roundup may not…
TIDAL is making it much easier to share music with your friends. The streaming service sneakily pushed out an update that makes it possible to share universal links with people who use different music streaming services.A new update released on March 26 introduces this specific feature that’s been confirmed to work with multiple music streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify (via Reddit). Here is an excerpt from the changelog:Now, with just a couple of taps, your friends can play any TIDAL track, artist, or album that you share on their preferred streaming service – no fuss or feeling left…
In the past couple of months, Meta has been amping up its AI efforts, matching the trends of 2023 and 2024. Now, a report from the New York Times (via Android Headlines) claims that Meta will bring AI to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. AI coming to Ray-Ban smart glasses The smart glasses in question come from a partnership between Meta and Ray-Ban. The device is equipped with a microphone and camera, and while it’s gorgeous as a fashion statement, it can also take photos, record videos, and even play music. And with AI claiming its place in almost any tech…
Scoring sweet savings on a high-end smartphone is always welcome. Therefore, you’ll definitely like this deal, as you can save big on the Edge+ (2023), Motorola’s current top-of-the-line phone.This mobile powerhouse is discounted by $200 on the manufacturer’s official website. In other words, you can now snatch one for just $599.99 instead of paying the phone’s usual price of $799.99. To save even more, consider trading in your old smartphone. Motorola is giving a sweet trade-in discount of up to $100. Packing a high-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage space, the Motorola Edge+…
“It’s early, but it could be restorative,” says Cory Nicholas, a former laboratory scientist who is the CEO of Neurona. “I call it activity balancing and repair.” Starting with a supply of stem cells originally taken from a human embryo created via IVF, Neurona grows “inhibitory interneurons.” The job of these neurons is to quell brain activity—they tell other cells to reduce their electrical activity by secreting a chemical called GABA. Graves got his transplant in July. He was wheeled into an MRI machine at the University of California, San Diego. There, surgeon Sharona Ben-Haim watched on a screen as…