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What could possibly be better than getting the state-of-the-art Galaxy S24 Ultra for $1,150 with no strings attached or as little as $300 with an additional $100 Samsung store credit after meeting a couple of key requirements? How about a cheaper-than-free Galaxy S24 Plus?Is such a thing even possible? With a new Discover Samsung Spring offer, it sure is, although you do obviously need to jump through a few hoops to save $1,050 on a device that normally starts at $999.99.First of all, you have to be okay with an upfront activation on T-Mobile or AT&T and a monthly installment…
The narrator sits on the floor and eats breakfast with the cats. LORE MACHINE / WILL DOUGLAS HEAVEN After more than a year in development, Lore Machine is now available to the public for the first time. For $10 a month, you can upload 100,000 words of text (up to 30,000 words at a time) and generate 80 images for short stories, scripts, podcast transcripts, and more. There are price points for power users too, including an enterprise plan costing $160 a month that covers 2.24 million words and 1,792 images. The illustrations come in a range of preset styles, from…
TL;DR:ChatGPT app can now read its responses aloud in various voices and languagesImproves accessibility for visually impaired users and potentially makes interactions more engaging for everyoneThis is part of a larger trend of AI assistants becoming more sophisticated and integrated into smartphonesLast year, OpenAI dropped the ChatGPT app, making chatting with the AI-powered bot on smartphones a breeze. It’s been getting cool updates since, and we even hinted at a possible ChatGPT widget for Android. Well, now there’s more. OpenAI just released a Read Aloud feature for the ChatGPT app on both iOS and Android devices.ChatGPT can now read responses to…
—This is an excerpt from a new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT CSAIL director Daniela Rus Robots are an incredible way to enhance and extend the reach of human capabilities. In 2009, I worked with the biologist Roger Payne to use camera-mounted drones to study whales and their life spans. The same drone was used to study uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, so they could be observed without the risk of bringing germs to people who had not developed immunity. We also built a drone that launched from a self-driving car, flying…
Motorola may have already introduced its new Moto G Play (2024), but last year’s model remains in the spotlight at the official store. The super budget-friendly phone with an MSRP of about $170 is once again retailing at a 41% cheaper price, which means you can get it for just under $100. As you might imagine, this is far from the first, second, or third time we’ve seen this generous 41% markdown. Actually, it’s been coming and going for several months now. Nevertheless, the Motorola phone has never been offered at better prices at the official store or Amazon. So,…
Can you find a better phone than the OnePlus 12R available at a comparable price right now? Probably not, and this bad boy’s value proposition is made that much stronger by a killer new Amazon deal.Unfortunately, this does not slash anything off the super-reasonable $499.99 and $599.99 list prices of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered handset in 128 and 256GB storage configurations respectively, instead throwing in a very nice gift worth a very cool 100 bucks.That essentially means you’ll be spending $100 under the $599.99 and $699.99 Amazon would normally charge you for the two aforementioned variants of the OnePlus…
Recently we’ve seen some AI failures on a far bigger scale. In the latest (hilarious) gaffe, Google’s Gemini refused to generate images of white people, especially white men. Instead, users were able to generate images of Black popes and female Nazi soldiers. Google had been trying to get the outputs of its model to be less biased, but this backfired, and the tech company soon found itself in the middle of the US culture wars, with conservative critics and Elon Musk accusing it of having a “woke” bias and not representing history accurately. Google apologized and paused the feature. In another now-famous…
“I’m beyond proud of my home state for passing the strongest-yet electronics Right to Repair bill” That’s how iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens feels about the fact that Oregon has passed an electronics Right to Repair law.“By applying to most products made after 2015, this law will open up repair for the things Oregonians need to get fixed right now. And by limiting the repair-restricting practices of parts pairing, it protects fixing for years to come. We won’t stop fighting until everyone, everywhere, has these rights”, he says.Oregon’s Right to Repair bill will not only protect owners’ right to get their…
Several weeks ago, we found a couple of generous offers on the fantastic Sony WH-1000XM4 and the newer model, the XM5, at Walmart. We believed the savings opportunity would come and go, not to return for at least another month. Well, it seems that we were wrong. The deal is back on, and guess what — it’s even better than before! At the time of writing, you can treat yourself to the older version at $100 off its price tag, while the new headset currently boasts a $90 cheaper price tag. By the way, the XM4 are currently available at…
Have you ever wished you could take a message back or noticed a typo right after hitting send? Fortunately, many popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram already offer the option to edit your messages after sending them. Now, Instagram is finally jumping on board with this feature.Meta has recently released a software update for the Instagram app, bringing the long-awaited feature of editing direct messages (DMs). However, there’s a catch: you only have a 15-minute window to make any changes. To edit a message, simply press and hold on the sent message, then select “edit” from the dropdown menu.…
In case you’re looking for a super budget-friendly tablet for the whole family, think not twice and get yourself the sleek Lenovo Tab M8 (4th Gen) right away. Typically, this slate retails for a measly $99.99 at the Lenovo store, but it’s once again available at a 23% cheaper price, meaning you can get it for less than $80!The budget Android slate first hit the shelves last year and has seen plenty of price cuts so far (by the way, it’s available at lower prices on Amazon, too!). However, the 23% markdown is among the best bargains we’ve seen for…
Google Maps not only helps you get from point “A” to point “B” quickly and safely, the app will also show you where you can grab a good meal, find a room to spend the night, catch a movie or some live entertainment, and visit the local landmarks once you arrive at “B.” Google Maps still feels the competition from the sometimes superior Apple Maps which excels at telling a driver exactly when to turn (for example, “turn left at the next stop sign” rather than Google Map’s “turn left in 3/4 of a mile”).And of course, Google Maps still…
What if we could throw our sight, hearing, touch, and even sense of smell to distant locales and experience these places in a more visceral way? So we wondered what would happen if we were to tap into the worldwide community of gamers and use their skills in new ways. With a robot working inside the deep freezer room, or in a standard manufacturing or warehouse facility, remote operators could remain on call, waiting for it to ask for assistance if it made an error, got stuck, or otherwise found itself incapable of completing a task. A remote operator would…
Google has just announced the new March 2024 feature drop for Pixel devices, bringing a variety of improvements to Pixel phones, Pixel Watch, and Pixel Tablet. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most notable new features. Pixel phones get calling, social media, and AI featuresCall Screen gets better: Call Screen will now provide users with a “hello” chip at the bottom to encourage callers to speak up after the call screening intro, saving you valuable time. This helps with callers who stay quiet because they are taken aback by the feature and are not sure what to…
However, there was one problem with Samsung’s narrative. The device that filmed the Rihanna concert was not a Galaxy S24 Ultra. In fact, it wasn’t recorded with a Samsung phone at all. The video was shot by a two-year-old iPhone 13 Pro Max and to prove it, the person who recorded the video posted the metadata. The video includes a 10x digital zoom-in and a .5x optical zoom-out. Of course, the iPhone 13 Pro Max does not feature the Tetraprism periscope zoom lens that delivers 5x optical zoom on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Samsung praises a video that it…
Both iPhone and Android users need to make sure that they do not have any of the 249 fake Crypto Wallet apps mentioned by Trend Micro on their phones. These apps pretend to be legit cryptocurrency wallet apps but have led to the theft of more than $4.3 million. Pretending to be from legit crypto wallet app companies, emails are sent out to potential victims containing “malicious links” that lead iOS and Android users to visit listings for the attackers’ fake apps.Do you see the brilliance in this process? By sending victims to a page where their malware-laden apps can…