ChatGPT Is Still Bleeding Users
ChatGPT’s explosion in popularity may have been short-lived as the number of website visits dropped for the third consecutive month, according to data released by Similarweb on Thursday. OpenAI’s ChatGPT…
You Need to Update Your iPhone, Right Now
Image: MeskPhotography (Shutterstock) Apple has just released a security update warning iPhone users to update their phones to iOS 16.6.1 to avoid becoming the target of a vicious malware attack.…
Texas Energy Grid Paid Bitcoin Miner $31.7 Million to Stop Working Amid Heatwave
The Lone Star State apparently loves cryptocurrency so much that it’s willing to pay mining firms to not do their jobs. One of those mining operations, called Riot Platforms, claims…
Spotify Tests Making Lyrics a Premium-Only Feature
Image: Primakov (Shutterstock) Spotify giveth and taketh away: If you want to sing along to your favorite tunes, you’d better fork over $10.99 every month. The music streaming platform has…
Facebook Supreme Court Says Posts About Abortion Are Not Death Threats
In March 2022, Meta removed a pair of posts on Facebook and Instagram criticizing a proposed South Carolina bill that would have horrifyingly applied homicide penalties to abortion seekers. One…
Three Decades After Launch, Microsoft’s WordPad Is Headed to the Trash Bin
Image: MagioreStock (Shutterstock) Microsoft is deprecating its WordPad software from Windows, leading to the end of a decades-old staple, the company announced on Friday. WordPad will no longer be available…
Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon
Less than one month after enduring public backlash over confusion about how it trains its artificial intelligence tools, Zoom says it’s prepared to plow forward with a ChatGPT-style chatbot to…
Did a Right-Wing Network Interview a Fake AI Trump?
With the proliferation of generative AI, we’ve come to the point where technology has helped compound the sense of distrust in both media and politics that exploded during the four-year…
‘Go Catch That Squirrel:’ Google AI Teaches a Robo-Dog Conversational Commands
Google researchers may have finally found a tech solution for the laborious task of training stubborn dogs to listen to commands. That is, of course, if you’re willing to opt…
Samsung Launches ‘Food,’ an AI-Driven Recipe App
Samsung Electronics is releasing a food and recipe app powered by AI with 160,000 recipes readily available to users, the company announced on Wednesday. The app, called Food, builds on…