Comment on this storyComment A group of college professors is suing Texas for banning TikTok on public-university computers and phones, saying it has undermined their ability to teach students and research one of the world’s most popular apps. Texas last year joined more than two dozen other states in banning the app on government-owned devices, with Gov. Greg Abbott (R) …
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The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the artificial intelligence start-up that makes ChatGPT, over whether the chatbot has harmed consumers through its collection of data and its publication of false information on individuals. In a 20-page letter sent to the San Francisco company this week, the agency said it was also looking into OpenAI’s security practices. …
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Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Code within the Samsung Internet Browser app suggests Samsung could integrate ChatGPT into the browser. ChatGPT integration could be part of the experimental Labs feature set. Samsung has been looking at ways to bring AI to its smartphones. Reports earlier in the year mentioned how Samsung caused panic at Google simply because it was …
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Telly begins shipping its free, ad-supported, dual-screen TV as part of its “public beta program”; users must submit demographic info, viewing habits, and more — Start-up says it received more than 250,000 sign-ups from U.S. consumers … The start-up, which plans to ship …
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After a full 48 hours, Amazon Prime Day 2023 is officially over. Whew, we made it. We hope you were able to find useful discounts among the Kindles, Echo Dots, iPads, LifeStraws, and other great deals we found sifting through the internet. If you missed out, fear not, a few great deals remain—at least for now. Below are the best …
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Home printers and scanners are going the way of the fax machine, and we can help you make the transition July 13, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT (Illustration by Elena Lacey/The Washington Post; iStock) Comment on this storyComment What if you didn’t need to own a fussy, undependable piece of technology that cost more money than it saved? It’s now …
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Fitbit is one of the most popular fitness tracker companies around, and its Versa and Charge lines are at the top of the pile. You don’t need to spend a ton of cash to get these devices though, as the Versa 4 and Charge 5 just received hefty price cuts for Prime Day. Starting with …
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Adam Crafton / The Athletic: How Apple expanded into sports since 2022, starting with the MLB, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him — In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue …
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The launch of Threads, Meta’s new Twitter killer, has catapulted some of us into a social media midlife crisis. What is it all for, anyway? Maybe some shiny new app will bring meaning and texture back to microblogging. But also, do we need so many shiny new apps? It’s fitting, then, that just as Twitter is getting a rethink a …
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Google’s Behshad Behzadi weighs in on how to use generative AI chatbots without compromising company information. Image: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock Google’s Bard, one of today’s high-profile generative AI applications, is used with a grain of salt within the company. In June 2023, Google asked its staff not to feed confidential materials into Bard, Reuters found through leaked internal documents. It …
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