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 Animated GIFs have become a staple of the internet. Invented in 1987, the looping, soundless video clips can be found everywhere online, from social media networks to messaging platforms. They're often used to express emotions, communicate ideas, or just make people laugh.
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 Apple will soon begin selling the Vision Pro in additional markets outside the U.S., according to Bloomberg, and Mark Gurman today reports that the United Kingdom and Canada are included in the list of countries where the headset is next set to launch.
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Memorial Day is just the beginning of a sales spree. Here's everything you need to know about the best days to shop sales to get deals.
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Looking for a new case for your iPhone 15 model? Check out our favorite cases, tested by our experts.
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Maybe you can finally get Frogger across the road, or beat your buddy at Mario Kart.
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We reviewed the best security cameras for your home from Ring, Arlo, Nest and more.
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Only a limited group of users have access to this new feature.
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It doesn't take long to give your old iPhone or Android phone a new lease on life as a security camera.
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Here are some hints, and the answers, for Connections No. 342.
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Springtime means it's keynote season in the tech world, and in 2024, that means "time to show off your AI bona fides." Google and OpenAI have already revealed big new upgrades to Gemini and ChatGPT this month, and now it's time for Microsoft Build. The tech giant's annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote slated for Tuesday, May 21 at 12 PM ET/9 AM PT, and you can watch the entire event live on YouTube (which is also embedded below) and at Microsoft's site (registration required). What about that Microsoft Surface event you may have heard about? Well, that's actually happening a day earlier: Monday, May 20. Confused? Don't worry, here's the tl;dr
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It might not be Memorial Day yet, but top brands are already offering big savings on popular mattresses.
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Check out all the hottest deals happening right now during Amazon's Memorial Day sale.
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The ChatGPT upgrade "brings GPT-4-level intelligence to everything, including our free users," said OpenAI's Mira Murati.
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Take $300 off the retail price of the Purple Restore Hybrid Mattress on Memorial Day 2024.
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We may have a good look at Motorola's next foldable phones. Separate leaks from 91Mobiles (via 9to5Google) and longtime device-leaking insider Evan Blass show the entry-level Moto Razr 50 and high-end Razr 50 Ultra (likely branded as the 2024 Razr and Razr in the US) in various colors from all sorts of angles.
Leaks point to the high-end Razr (2024) — aka Razr 50 Ultra — running on a Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip with 12GB of RAM and 256GB storage. It's expected to have a 6.9-inch OLED display at 2,640 x 1,080 resolution on the inside and a 3.6-inch cover display on the outside. A 50MP wide-angle camera paired with a 50MP telephoto lens, a 32MP front sensor and a 4,000mAh battery round out the (alleged
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NEW RESOURCES Progressive Geographies, and machine-translated from French: André Breton's manuscripts freely accessible on Gallica. "In partnership with the Atelier André Breton Association, and thanks to the exceptional generosity of Aube Elléouët-Breton, […]
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 This week's best deals included some of the first discounts on the new M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air, as well as big savings across the entire AirPods lineup. If you're okay with investing in a previous generation, you'll also find big savings on the M1 iPad Air.
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 Apple is planning to launch an all-new iPhone 17 model next year with a "significantly thinner" design, according to The Information. The report says the device could have a higher price tag than the Pro Max model, which currently starts at $1,199, suggesting that the device would become the new highest-end model in the lineup.
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 Over the past few days, some iPhone users have said the "Allow Apps to Request to Track" toggle in the Settings app is suddenly grayed out on their devices. The issue was highlighted by @iDeviceHelpus on X, and in a post on Reddit.
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Agiloft's new GenAI Prompt Lab capabilities power unmatched connectivity between contracts, generative AI large language models, and the people using them
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NEW RESOURCES NREL: NREL Battery Supply Chain Database Maps Out the State of North America's Manufacturing Base . "As part of ongoing efforts to map the battery landscape, NAATBatt International and NREL […]
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 Just a dozen humans in all of history have had the incredible experience of walking on the Moon. The best of the best. Our bravest and most competent. Earth's ambassadors. Twelve men of incredible physical fitness and intellectual prowess.
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We tested, researched, and interviewed to bring you the best weight loss programs this year. Here are our favorites.
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The move would align marijuana more closely with other drugs that are often used for medicinal purposes, but that doesn't mean pot will be legalized.
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Step up your cycling game without leaving the house. These are the best indoor bike trainers around.
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Silicone controller sleeve, 3pcs.
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 Apple today published its second annual App Store Transparency Report [PDF], highlighting details like the number of apps that were rejected during the year, the number of customer and developer accounts deactivated, the number of apps removed from the ?App Store?, and more.
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The company is still assessing a helium leak in the service module of its Starliner capsule, whose test launch with astronauts has now been postponed three times.
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If you're interested in a premium travel credit card, act fast to earn this limited time offer.
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The epic sci-fi film starts streaming next week.
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Content creators and influencers are pushing back against a potential TikTok ban, saying the app is essential to their livelihoods.
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 OpenAI's Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team's founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.
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 While millions of people who couldn't normally see the aurora borealis took in the recent color-filled spectacle in the night sky, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was looking straight at the sun to catch all the action. The fiery footage is well worth a watch.
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 Most iPhone users are familiar with Apple's Live Photos, which capture 1.5 seconds of video before and after you take a picture, with the aim of adding a little bit of life and movement to still images. What some users might not know is that you can also make a Live Photo bounce back and forth like a boomerang.
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The developers have fixed at least 16 vulnerabilities in Firefox 126.0. Mozilla categorizes two of these vulnerabilities as high risk in its security report . A use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2024-4764) could come to light and become exploitable if WebRTC is used more intensively (e.g. during video conferences) and a new audio source is added. A missing type check in the built-in PDF viewer PDF.js could open up the possibility of executing arbitrary JavaScript code in this context (CVE-2024-4367).
Some vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute injected code. Attacks on Firefox users are not yet known. With the menu item " Help " About Firefox, you can initiate an update check and download the update manually if required.
This is new in Firefox 126
Mozilla advertises on the What's new page that you can edit PDF files in Firefox and in this case means that you can fill out forms. H
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Share and stay connected with your friends with the Facebook for Android app. Facebook for Android makes it easy to stay connected and share with friends. [License: Freeware | Requires:
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Early Memorial Day deals are here and Amazon is offering up to 50% off Blink security devices.
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate lets you access a huge number of games on your console, PC and mobile phone -- and right now you can save even more.
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If you're looking to put a TV in a smaller room, our picks for the best 55-inch TVs include the best options out there.
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OpenAI and Reddit announced a partnership on Thursday that will allow OpenAI to surface Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to bring AI-powered features to its users. The partnership will "enable OpenAI's tools to better understand and showcase Reddit content, especially on recent topics," both companies said in a joint statement. As part of the agreement, OpenAI will also become an advertising partner on Reddit, which means that it will run ads on the platform.
The deal is similar to the one that Reddit signed with Google in February, and which is reportedly worth $60 million. A Reddit spokesperson declined to disclose the terms of the OpenAI deal to Engadget and OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.
OpenAI has been increasingly striking partnerships with publishers to get data to continue training its AI models. In the last few weeks alone, the company has signed deals with the Financial Times and Dotdash Meredith. Last year, it also partnered with German publisher Axel Springer to train its models on news from Politico and Business Insider in the US and Bild and Die Welt in Germany.
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If you can't tell by now, just about every tech company is eager to pray at the altar of AI, for better or worse. Google's recent I/O developer conference was dominated by AI features, like its seemingly life-like Project Astra assistant. Just before that, OpenAI debuted GPT 4o, a free and conversational AI model that's disturbingly flirty. Next up is Microsoft Build 2024, the company's developer conference that's kicking off next week in Seattle.
Normally, Build is a fairly straightforward celebration of Microsoft's devotion to productivity, with a dash of on-stage coding to excite the developer crowd. But this year, the company is gearing up to make some more huge AI moves, following its debut of the ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat in early 2023. Take that together with rumors around new Surface hardware, and Build 2024 could potentially be one of the most important events Microsoft has ever held.
But prior to Build, Microsoft is hosting a showcase for new Surfaces and AI in Windows 11 on May 20.
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 The iMessage service that Apple users to send messages to one another appears to be down for some users, and messages are failing to go out or are taking an extra long time to send.
: Apple's status page says iMessage service has been restored, with the outage lasting approximately 45 minutes from 2:49 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Pacific Time. Apple says FaceTime, HomeKit, and Apple Messages for Business were also affected.
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 You can now buy a brand-new McLaren for just US$7,950! We should point out that the vehicle is not a supercar but an electric mountain bike - one of four models that the British automaker has just announced. Another in that lineup is said to be the most powerful of its kind.
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As we wait for all the legal issues to resolve, now is a good time to stay two steps ahead, and ponder a fundamental question: If the ban does go into effect, could a VPN help you get around the new restrictions?
Much of the answer keys into the specific nature of the ban—namely, that app stores in the U.S. would ostensibly be forced to remove the TikTok app from their marketplaces. If that's how the ban plays out, then theoretically a VPN should put you back in business, with the caveat that you'll already need to have the TikTok app installed prior to the ban.
There's a lot to unpack here, including what the law would require of TikTok, and how technically savvy users could respond. Read on for details. And if you're looking for a VPN to make your digital life more more secure—or, who knows, preserve TikTok access—check out my rankings of the best VPNs.
How would a TikTok ban likely play out?
The short but frustrating answer is that no one knows exactly how a TikTok ban would be implemented. While the law was passed and signed by president Biden, the actual details are still being worked o
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OpenAI will accompany the launch of the GPT-4o model with a new Mac app that will showcase the capabilities of the new model, which can now "see" the world around it. A Windows app will debut later on. The GPT-4o model can now "see," as well, via vision capabilities that include desktop screenshots as well as the ability to upload video and screenshots from a mobile app — again, just an iPhone app for now.
Perhaps the most intriguing thing about the new ChatGPT app with GPT-4o, however, is that the model now seems far more human in both tone and intonation. For one thing, the model is "real time," which means that you don't have to wait for it to complete its statement before you can jump in and cut it off. The speech synthesis can even harmonize its voices, as well as provide what we could consider to be "normal" conversational interactions, translations, and more. Normal conversations will now have GPT-4 levels of sophistication across the board.
Consider this GPT-4o demonstration, which now incorporates teenager-level sarcasm on demand, below. Consider this a demonstration, however: GPT-4o's new audio and video capabilities are coming in the future, OpenAI said. (You can still "talk" to ChatGPT via the mic app on the Web version of ChatGPT.)
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TWEAKS AND UPDATES ZDNet: OpenAI's new tool can detect its own DALL-E 3 AI images, but there's a catch. "AI-generated images can be used to trick you into believing fake content is […]
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