Galaxy Z Fold 4 folded in half on a desk, showing a larger gap near the hinge than the rendered Z Fold 5 in the leaked image.Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Another clearly visible but minor change shows the camera flash moved off of the camera bump on …
Read More »Amazon may soon offer free wireless phone service
As if Amazon doesn’t have enough services, there are widespread rumors that the retail behemoth, with over 300 million active customer accounts and over 1.9 million selling partners worldwide, is exploring offering free mobile wireless service. If the rumors are to be believed, the tech giant is in talks with …
Read More »Intel is officially killing off the ‘i’ in Core i7 — as it goes Ultra
The rumors were true: Intel is officially killing off the “i” in “Core i9,” “Core i7,” “Core i5,” and “Core i3” — and it won’t broadly refer to its next series of processors as “14th Gen,” either. The chipmaker is now planning to sell three tiers of consumer chips: Intel, …
Read More »Artificial intelligence won’t likely reach human-like levels without this one key component, study finds
Artificial intelligence will likely not reach human-like cognition unless the programs are connected to robots and designed with evolutionary principles, researchers in the U.K. found. Revolutionary AI platforms that mimic human conversation, such as the wildly popular ChatGPT, will never reach human-like cognition despite their large their neural networks and …
Read More »Twitter sued for $250 million by music publishers over ‘massive’ copyright infringement
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is suing Twitter on behalf of 17 music publishers representing the biggest artists in the business. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Tennessee, claims the company “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under …
Read More »Best safe and free screen savers for your computer
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Read More »Best Buy Upgrade Plus lets you pay for a new Apple Watch Ultra over three years
Much like how Apple lets users “lease” iPhones through its iPhone upgrade program, customers can pay off their iPad Pro or Apple Watch Ultra over an extended period of time. Apple gives iPhone customers 24 months, though, while Upgrade Plus stretches things an additional year. After the three-year period is …
Read More »Massive distribution of malware exposes gamers to theft and data breaches
A new villain has entered the scene in the infinite realms of the beloved video game Minecraft, where diamond swords fend off blocky monsters. Unlike creepers or ghasts, this antagonist doesn’t explode or float around aimlessly. Instead, it’s a real-world threat of infostealing malware distributed by hackers who’ve craftily used …
Read More »EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling
The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that “only the mandatory divestment by Google of part of its services would address its competition concerns.” It’s a significant move targeting the main source of the search giant’s …
Read More »Voice cloning on the rise: Understanding what it is, how it works and what it can be used for
Voice cloning through artificial intelligence is quickly becoming more advanced, more accessible and more widely used. While using artificial intelligence to clone voices can be beneficial in making certain work more efficient and assisting those who have lost their ability to speak, there are also many problems that have, so …
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