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Larry Magid: Observing Safer Internet Day
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (219+ words) The local events are on track to reach more than 70,000 young people this year. The Sacramento event, hosted by ConnectSafely in collaboration with National PTA and Children Now, will bring together about 100 young people, elected officials, tech executives and other…...
Google lets users tailor AI search with data from photos, email
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (91+ words) Google lets users tailor AI search with data from photos, email'mercurynews.com By Annie Bang, Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.s Google is rolling out a new option to personalize search results by tapping user data from the tech giants other applications,…...
Apple to revamp Siri as a built-in iPhone, Mac chatbot to fend off OpenAI
2+ week, 10+ hour ago (1249+ words) By Mark Gurman, Bloomberg Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google. RELATED:…...
Cleaning Up Digital Clutter on Phones and Computers
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (361+ words) If you're like most people, you probably take more than one picture of the same scene. I do because I want to make sure I got it right. But when I look at those pictures later, I often realize that…...
Google Gemini can proactively analyze users’ Gmail, photos, searches
3+ week, 1+ day ago (160+ words) This marks our next step toward making Gemini more personal, proactive and powerful," he added.Personal Intelligence is initially launching in the US in beta. Gemini could already retrieve information from various Googleservices when asked to do so, but the…...
Apple bundles creative apps into new $13-a-month subscription
3+ week, 2+ day ago (223+ words) Apple bundles creative apps into new $13-a-month subscription'The Mercury News Apple bundles creative apps into new $13-a-month subscription The bundle, announced Tuesday, includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Pixelmator Pro, among others, and will be available Jan. 28 for $12.99 per…...
Meta’s Threads makes a play for podcasters and their rabid fans
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (281+ words) (Bloomberg/Ashley Carman) " Meta Platforms Inc.s Threads will launch podcast previews, or the ability to upload snippets of shows that play directly in user feeds, as part of a broader effort to encourage podcasters and their fans to spend…...
Help! My two-factor authentication on Amazon stopped working
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (408+ words) Q:" I've been an Amazon customer for 20 years, but after changing my phone number, I'm locked out of my account because two-factor authentication (2FA) still uses my old number. Amazon updated the phone number on my account, but 2FA remains broken. One agent…...
Google releases more efficient Gemini 3 AI model across products
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (265+ words) (Bloomberg/Carmen Arroyo) " Alphabet Inc.s Google is rolling out a more efficient and affordable version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model across its products, building on the companys momentum after the successful launch of Gemini 3. Google on Wednesday…...
OpenAI unveils more advanced model as race with Google heats up
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (469+ words) OpenAI is rolling out a new artificial intelligence model designed to make ChatGPT better at coding, science and a wide range of work tasks, weeks after Alphabet Inc's Google put the startup on defense with the well-received launch of Gemini…...