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The promotion is tied into A Minecraft Movie and is now available.
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 Visa wants to pay Apple approximately $100 million to be the new payment network for the Apple Card, reports The Wall Street Journal. As of right now, the ?Apple Card? is on the Mastercard payment network, but that is set to change because Apple is ending its partnership with Goldman Sachs.
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"Arkansas takes a hatchet to adults' and minors' protected speech alike though the Constitution demands it use a scalpel," the judge said.
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ChatGPT's built-in image generation feature is now available to everyone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last week that the company is delaying its rollout to free tier "for a while," because the tool was way more popular than they had expected. But the company made the feature available to free users over the weekend, allowing them to generate images from within ChatGPT and without having to switch to OpenAI's DALL-E generator. Prior to its rollout to the free tier, the tool was only available to Plus, Pro and Team subscribers.
Altman previously said that free users will get a limit of three images per day. Based on our experience trying it out, some accounts are limited to just one a day. Those who find themselves able to generate more than one will still have to wait anywhere between a few minutes and a few hours. One of the tool's most popular uses that we've seen so far is the creation of Ghibli-style images using real-life photos. Users simply have to upload the photo they want to use and then instruct ChatGPT in natural language to create a Ghibli-style version of it. The trend had raised concerns, yet again, about the legality of using copyrighted work as training data for artificial intelligence. It also resurfaced the reaction of Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli's founder, upon being shown AI-generated animation years ago. "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself," the director said.
In a tweet, Altman said that the tool could still exhibit erra
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 Is there no middle ground between a $200,000 deluxe camper van and an arduous, time-consuming DIY build? Established camper van nameplate Outside Van is looking to till that ground, providing buyers with a Goldilocks solution in which some of
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Meta's 'Hypernova' glasses could cost well over $1,000 and include a tiny display on one lens with its own, tiny app tray.
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The promise comes as a Tufts student faces deportation over an op-ed.
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Keep your devices safe from malware, phishing attempts and other threats with the best antivirus software, researched and ranked by our team of CNET experts.
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 Amazon today has all-time low prices on the new M4 MacBook Air, with up to $60 off the 13-inch and 15-inch versions of the computer. Right now these discounts are only available on Amazon, and most of them have estimated delivery windows of early April.
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TikTok's deadline to sell off or cede its US operations is once again approaching. The 75-day extension delaying the enforcement of a nationwide TikTok ban is set to run out Saturday, April 5, unless the company finally reaches an agreement to find a new owner. Who might buy it, and what happens if no deal is reached? Here's the shape of things right now:
Potential buyers
President Donald Trump has suggested that "a deal" is imminent and could be reached before that deadline. What such an agreement will look like is still extremely unclear. A number of interested buyers have come forward, including YouTuber MrBeast, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian and Perplexity AI. Oracle, which almost bought TikTok in 2020 and was a key part of TikTok's earlier negotiations to address national security concerns, is also in the running.
Depending on which bid wins out, TikTok could end up looking very different. ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese owner, won't allow another company to take control of the app's coveted recommendation algorithm. That means a new owner would have to rebuild TikTok's central feature. Perplexity AI, for example, has said it would take on this task of reverse-engineering the app's "For You" feed, making it
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Regardless of your needs, this hidden camera can prove to be incredibly useful.
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Yes, all this sounds familiar, although it's not yet clear if we're seeing a typical rough landing for an app revamp or a Sonos-level dumpster fire. Plex does have a laundry list of issues it plans to address in the coming weeks (again, déjà vu), and the laggy, stuttering app performance will hopefully improve over time. We'll be watching.
In the meantime, there are some Plex "new experience" issues we can tackle right now, starting with the Live TV, Discover, and On Demand tabs at the bottom of the screen. You can't swap them out with other options, unfortunately, but you can make them go away.
Another "new experience" feature we can hide are the user reviews for movies and TV shows in your Plex library. If you love seeing what random folks thought about the content on your Plex media servers, then hey, leave ‘em be. Want to hide them? No problem.
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The improvements arrive ahead of a Plex Pass price hike.
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This year's Amazon Spring Sale has ended, but there are still some deals floating around that you can take advantage of. While this shopping event focused the discounts on household, outdoor and fashion gear, a number of our favorite gadgets made it into the sale. In line with the "spring" theme, we found great discounts on cordless vacuums, robot vacuums, air purifiers and other smart home tech, along with solid deals on headphones, streaming devices, mesh Wi-Fi systems and more. Here, we've collected the best Amazon Spring Sale deals you can still get today even after the event has ended.
Best Amazon Spring Sale deals you can still get
Amazon Fire TV Stick HD for $20 ($15 off): Our top pick for the best bud
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If you've been paying attention, you know that the Windows world is badly fragmented. Not only are users split between Windows 10 and Windows 11, but Windows 11 users aren't even all on the same version. Now, over the past year, AI has added another wrinkle with Microsoft mainly developing its Copilot PC features for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X platform while neglecting AMD's Ryzen AI 300 and Intel's Core Ultra 200 series processors.
Fortunately, that's changing. On Monday, Microsoft wrote in a blog post that PCs powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, Intel Core Ultra 200V, and Snapdragon X series processors are all eligible for "exclusive Copilot PC experiences like Live Captions, Cocreator, Restyle Image, and Image Creator." The word "like" offers some wiggle room, since other AI-powered experiences—such as the ability to resize photos—is only available in the Photos app on PCs running on a Snapdragon chip.
Still, it's a major step up for AMD and Intel. Microsoft and its partners launched Copilot PCs in May 2024, showing off all of its favored AI features on Snapdragon machines. Although Microsoft promised that it would soon bring those features to Copilot PCs powered by AMD and Intel, months passed… Microsoft then eventually released Windows Recall for Copilot Snapdragon PCs, then offered that feature
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Creatives in the UK are once again speaking out against AI developers accessing copyrighted material. The Society of Authors have published an open letter calling for UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to hold Meta accountable for possible copyright infringement regarding its LLM, Llama 3. Signatories of the letter include successful British authors Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Val McDermid and Sarah Waters.
A March 20 article in The Atlantic served as the letter's impetus. It reported that Meta had used LibGen, a pirated collection of over 7.5 million books, to train its AI models. Anyone on the internet over the last few weeks has likely seen videos of distraught authors learning that their work is available on the database (and potentially used by Meta without their permission). A lawsuit in the US alleges Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of LibGen's data to train its AI. The lawsuit's plaintiffs include writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
"These cases are shining a light on the unscrupulous behaviour exhibited by global tech companies which seemingly exploit copyright-protected material, safe in the knowledge that they will not be held to account," the Society of Authors' letter stated. "This must change, and global tech companies
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Many of the most popular PDF apps switched to subscriptions, meaning you're functionally paying to be able to use an extremely common file type. If you don't want to pay every month for as long as you need to use PDFs, then replace your subscription to Acrobat with a perpetual license to SwifDoo.
This all-in-one PDF app can edit, annotate, rearrange, scan, and do a whole lot more to any PDF file, and you only pay for it once. It's normally $129, but right now, a SwifDoo Perpetual License is on sale for $29.97.
How to use PDFs without a subscription
SwifDoo is a simple tool. It lets you work with PDFs about as easily as if they were Word docs. You can edit text, add annotations, convert between different file types, or just sign documents. SwifDoo also lets you encrypt PDFs, compress them for easier file transfers, and rearrange pages. The OCR can even recognize text on documents that you couldn't edit before. So all those hard copies lacking an original can finally go digital again.
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Anxious about the economic headlines? A CD can provide much-needed peace of mind.
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 Last week, we covered a report claiming that Apple's book-style foldable iPhone (or "iPhone Fold," as we are provisionally calling it here) will use liquid metal hinges to improve durability and help minimize screen creasing. Today, a Chinese leaker provided more details on the properties of this hinge material that help to clarify why Apple chose it for its first foldable device.
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