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Five of the major AI chatbots were tested. All of them regularly proposed dietary plans akin to skipping an entire meal each day.
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Google Play has introduced a new feature called Game Trials, which will let you play a portion of paid games for free before you commit to buying them. It's now rolling out to select paid games on mobile, and it's coming soon to Google Play Games on PC. Titles that offer Game Trials will show a button marked "Try" on their profile pages. When you click it, you'll see how long you can play the game before you have to buy it. In Google's example, the survival and horror game Dredge will give you 60 minutes of free play time, after which you'll get the option to either buy the game or delete it from your device.
Google has also announced that it's releasing more paid indie games over the coming months, including Moonlight Peaks, Sledding Game and Low-Budget Repairs. It has launched a new section in the Play store, as well, to feature games optimized for Windows PCs. You can wishlist the games from that section to get a notification when they're on sale.
Finally, the company is rolling out Play Games Sidekick, the Gemini-powered Android overlay it announced last year, to select games downloaded from Play. Sidekick can show you relevant info and tools for whatever game you're playing without having to do a search query. But if you'd rather ask other people for gaming advice instead of an AI, you can also look at a game's Community Posts, a feature now available in English for select titles on
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AI Grammar Checker & Paraphraser - LanguageTool for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge checks your spelling, grammar, and more. Help improve your writing with this extension/add-on that will continuously check your text for all types of errors and provide suggestions to improve your style and tone. [License: Freemium / Subscription $69.90 Per Year | Requires:
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Can injury-hit Rory McIlroy defend his crown at TPC Sawgrass?
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 Apple today released iOS 16.7.15, iPadOS 16.7.15, iOS 15.8.7, and iPadOS 15.8.7, updates designed for older iPhones and iPads that are not able to run newer versions of iOS and iPadOS.
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The reigning champions welcome Liam Rosenior's Blues to the Parc des Princes.
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A new paper argues that humans are losing varied ways of thinking due to the use of chatbots, and that's concerning.
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Anthropic's AI assistant can now keep a single continuous conversation across both tools.
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TikTok will soon let you stream full songs in its app via a new integration with Apple Music. The company's new Play Full Song feature makes it possible to link your Apple Music account toTikTok, and play any song that strikes your fancy directly in the app while you're scrolling.
Starting a song is as simple as tapping a button in the Sound Details page or your For You page. Assuming you pay for Apple Music, TikTok will then open up a streamlined version of Apple's music player, which you can use to listen to the song, save it for later or add it to a playlist.
TikTok says that Play Full Song is built using Apple's MusicKit APIs, which let developers surface elements of the Apple Music streaming service in their apps. TikTok has previously offered integration with multiple music streaming services through a feature it calls Add to Music App, which made it possible to save songs you heard on TikTok to your streaming library. What's particularly interesting about this new integration is that because it's using Apple's APIs, songs streamed with Play Full Song count as normal streams for the artists in Apple Music, so they don't lose out on any money.
Alongside the new feature, TikTok and Apple are also introducing a way for fans to listen to music live with their favorite artists. TikTok's Listening Party feature creates a live "shared environment" where people can listen to music and interact with artists directly, in what effectively sounds like an audio-only livestream. TikTok livestreams are a whole ecosystem in their own right, and Listening Party seems like a way to leverage some of the same technology for a more cont
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The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
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If you're an Amazon member with health questions, this chatbot may have answers for you.
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Google announced a new set of AI updates on Tuesday, embedding its Gemini assistant into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The rollout aims to transform these apps from passive tools into "active collaborators" that can draft documents, build complex spreadsheets, and design presentations by pulling data directly from a user's emails, chats, and files. From […]
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Happy MacBook Neo launch day! Apple's $599 notebook is finally here, and we picked one up to take a look at the new machine and share some first impressions.
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Microsoft first debuted its full screen Xbox experience for Windows in the ROG Ally Xbox handheld, in a bid to compete with Steam's nearly 15-year-old Big Picture Mode. That Xbox interface eventually made its way to other Windows 11 gaming portables last year. Today at GDC, Microsoft revealed that its big screen Xbox UI is headed to all Windows 11 devices (including laptops and desktops) in April. Oh yah, and it's now simply called "Xbox Mode."
Xbox Mode will only be available in select markets at first, and Microsoft describes it as bringing "a controller-optimized experience to your Windows 11 device, letting players browse their library, launch games, use Game Bar and switch between apps." You know, just like Steam Big Picture mode. Microsoft didn't have much else to share about optimizations in Xbox Mode, but when it debuted the feature for Windows 11 Insiders last fall, the company noted that its task switcher will let people quickly move between games, as well as their apps.
Microsoft revealed at GDC today that it plans to start sending Project Helix
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Bring one of the best desks of 2026 into your work, gaming or hobby space.
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I edited photos with the original Nano Banana, the pro model and now Nano Banana 2. Here's how they stack up.
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The Grammarly Expert Review feature included the names of writers and literary figures without consulting them first.
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Devices were remotely wiped by the hacking group. The company says the attack is now over.
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When used by humans, large language models often lack sufficient information to make a correct diagnosis, a new study in Nature Medicine shows.
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The appropriately-named Better Value plan has features that will appeal to families, but check the details.
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The Strait of Hormuz, a busy waterway off the coast of Iran, has come to a near standstill. If the war drags on much longer, it could mean higher prices for consumer goods around the world.
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State-aligned media released a list naming the offices of Microsoft, Palantir, and more as potential targets of military action.
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Adobe unveils an AI Assistant for Photoshop and upgrades Firefly, letting users edit images with prompts, voice commands, and new generative AI tools.
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The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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These are the best TVs I've reviewed for every budget, including top brands, including LG, Samsung and TCL.
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 The upcoming foldable iPhone that Apple plans to debut this September will operate like a cross between an iPhone and an iPad, reports Bloomberg.
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Innovation. Music. Films. Artificial intelligence. Here's what we're looking forward to at this year's South by Southwest festival and conference.
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Companies including Google, Microsoft, and Palantir were listed as targets by Iranian media as the conflict with Israel and the US spills into digital infrastructure.
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NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Reddit: Edible Plant Database. From the front page: "Explore 25,759 edible plant species from around the world — with edible uses, medicinal properties, cultivation details, and nutrition data. […]
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A new company called Musical Beings has officially unveiled the Tembo, which might be the cutest drum machine ever made. Just look at this thing! It's got a wooden chassis that resembles a standard drum machine, but with one key difference. The sequencer is tactile. Users arrange beats by placing magnetic pucks that trigger samples.
This seems like a really good way to introduce the basics of sequencing and beatmaking to kids and young adults, being that DAWs and grooveboxes can feature a steep learning curve. The sequencer isn't all that different from what's found on a typical groovebox, but the analog nature of it seems novel.
The company says it designed Tembo to "enable everyone to create music from the very first touch." Co-founder David Davidov told MusicRadar that most instruments take "so long to get to the fun part" and that Musical Beings wanted to "help people experience music as something they do, not just something they listen to."
Just because it's accessible to kids and amateurs doesn't mean it's not for seasoned musicians. This is a real-deal drum machine with plenty of nifty features. There's a five-channel, 16-step sequencer that's controlled via the aforementioned circular magnets. The machine inclu
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 Amazon today has the AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $119.99, down from $179.00. This is a solid second-best price on the AirPods 4 with ANC, and the best price we've tracked so far in 2026.
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The MTIA processors are the tech giant's latest attempt to build its own AI hardware, even as it continues spending billions on gear from industry leaders like Nvidia.
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NEW RESOURCES Government of Wales: Uncover the stories of Wales through free digital archive. "Launched by Adnodd, the national body for educational resources for the Curriculum for Wales, the collection resources cover […]
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Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?
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Yann LeCun's new startup AMI launched with a $1.03 billion seed round to build AI "world models," betting against the LLM-first approach.
The post Yann LeCun, Meta's Former AI Chief, Launches $1B Startup Focused on ‘World Models' appeared first on eWEEK.
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I really don't know how Apple did it. The MacBook Neo is a $600 laptop that doesn't feel like an afterthought, which is a curse that has befallen so many cheap Windows notebooks. Sure, it has a slower A-series processor and it's limited to 8GB of RAM. But the MacBook Neo still feels as deeply considered as Apple's most premium hardware. Its screen, trackpad and overall usability is so far ahead of the competition, every Windows PC maker, including Microsoft, should be ashamed.
I've argued that a cheap MacBook could be the best for Apple to peel away Windows users, and after spending almost a week with the Neo, I'm convinced it will do just that. It's just fast enough to handle basic productivity work. It's sturdy enough to be tortured by kids in classrooms. And you really can't beat its $599 starting price. Once Windows users learn it's not that hard to switch to macOS, Apple will likely have another hit on its hands.
What's so Neo about this MacBook?
I'll admit, I laughed at the MacBook Neo's name at first. It really does feel like a desperately hip name ASUS or Acer would slap onto their machines (in fact, Acer is doing so right now), rather than something Apple would even consider. But the Neo name is more than just a dated reference to the Matrix — it's also a clear signal that this is a new
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 Apple is planning to launch an all-new "MacBook Ultra" model this year, featuring an OLED display, touchscreen, and a higher price point, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.
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TWEAKS AND UPDATES 9to5 Google: Google Home just announced a bunch of Gemini, smart home updates rolling out now. "Google has announced a number of updates to the Gemini for Home experience […]
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A Nature Medicine study finds ChatGPT Health misjudged over half of medical emergencies and sometimes advised delayed care, raising concerns about AI triage reliability.
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Anthropic was banned after refusing mass surveillance and autonomous weapons use, while OpenAI secured a Pentagon deal. Inside Washington's AI showdown.
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 While the technology behind AI-powered chatbots quickly captured the public imagination, an even more powerful application of generative artificial intelligence has been creating a buzz among business leaders. It's called agentic AI. The post Agentic AI Set To Revolutionize Business Operations, Decision-Making appeared first on TechNewsWorld.
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Apple has a lot to prove at WWDC 2024. Not only must it fend off the negative attention it has been picking up from regulators, but it must also galvanize loyal developers and disabuse the industry perception that it has fallen behind on AI.
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Kyndryl continues to fill out its stable of network security partners, most recently inking an alliance with Palo Alto Networks for cybersecurity, SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE) services.
As part of the deal, Kyndryl will integrate Palo Alto's security products and services into its own managed security services, which include security monitoring, incident response, and threat intelligence.
Palo Alto brings a wide range of security offerings, including a family of next-generation firewalls, the Prisma Cloud security platform for cloud-based applications and workloads, endpoint security, and operational automation support.
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The new results show that people with a specific version of a gene are less likely to develop severe COVID-19. Earlier research had identified a specific group of genes, called the OAS1/2/3 gene cluster, as being involved in the risk for severe COVID-19.
One version of a gene in that cluster -passed down from Neanderthals, appeared to protect against serious disease, reducing risk by about 23%. Previous research was mostly done on people of European ancestory. Researchers are now seeing the same association of this genetic variant with less severe COVID-19 in people of African ancestory, according to a report published in Nature Genetics.
"The fact that people of African descent had the same protection allowed us to identify the only variant in DNA that actually protects against COVID19 i
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"Zhao Changpeng has become the world's biggest cryptocurrency billionaire(Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images)A cryptocurrency CEO has become one of the richest people on the planet.
Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, who manages the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, has joined the ranks of the world's top billionaires, with an estimated net worth of at least $96 billion, according to new calculations from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index published Monday.
Zhao's predicted fortune now rivals that of Oracle founder (ORCL) Larry Ellison and surpasses that of Mukesh
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