Comment on this storyComment The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk. The agency this week sent the San Francisco company a 20-page demand for records about how it addresses risks related to …
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Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR The first public beta of iOS 17 has been released, and it includes new features that weren’t disclosed in the main iOS 17 keynote announcement. It finally adds in features like full-page screenshots and bilingual Siri, which have been available on competitor platforms for a while. Other new features include better dual-SIM support, expanded …
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Clive Cookson / Financial Times: UNESCO calls for regulation of AI-based neurotechnology; research shows private investments in Neuralink and others reached $7.3B in 2020, up ~20x since 2010 — Manipulation of brain signals advancing so fast it threatens human rights, warns UN body — Neurotechnology is advancing so fast …
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Technology is a double-edged sword. Sometimes it makes our lives easier and gives us world-changing innovations like the steam engine, the microprocessor, and the internet. Other times it gives us things like spam, Black Friday, and Amazon Prime Day. But at least with those last two, we get some killer deals even if we do get chased by ads everywhere …
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Nick Fernandez / Android Authority The Steam Deck still rules the roost as far as PC-based gaming handhelds go, but the ASUS ROG Ally is its biggest challenge to date. It hasn’t been a perfect launch for ASUS, though, and reports of microSD card issues popped up shortly after the release. Now, the Taiwanese company has confirmed that the ROG …
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Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan — Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the United Kingdom, allowing independent sellers, small merchants …
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American action movie villains have always acted as a sort of paranoia litmus test, capturing a snapshot of the particular anxieties plaguing the country and its citizens at any given time. During the Cold War, movies like From Russia with Love, Rocky IV, and Red Dawn nodded at the public’s fear of wily Soviets, ostensibly hell-bent on ruining the capitalist …
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority Do you like to keep a clean house? By that we mean, is your phone cluttered with apps you don’t use seldom or not at all? Or are you someone who regularly uninstalls unused apps? Managing unused apps on Android is pretty simple. You still have to delete them manually, but you don’t have to …
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Google updates Bard with support for 43 more languages, including Arabic, and releases the chatbot in Europe and Brazil after adding new privacy features — Latest version to also include a privacy hub for all users — Google is betting a new version of its artificial-intelligence chatbot will say hallo …
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Gideon Lichfield: I’m sure it will be if it isn’t already. No, totally, I think we’re gonna get a hydroponic organic psilocybin encased in artisanal, ethically sourced chocolate harvested from the Western-facing slopes of some mountain in Nicaragua, and it’s gonna be very expensive. And somebody with a very snooty head, who’s gonna be standing there at the shop explaining …
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