Monthly Archives: February 2023

This touchscreen Lenovo Chromebook is now just $114 refurbished

Answer emails and attend video meetings without lugging around your laptop. The post This touchscreen Lenovo Chromebook is now just $114 refurbished appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Macro raises $9.3 to layer intelligence on top of digital documents

Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer at Bridgewater Associates, grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. He wondered why there wasn’t a way to read and write on … Continue reading

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Giannis, Doja Cat and Amy Schumer will peddle Google’s Pixel during the Super Bowl

Super Bowl ads make strange bedfellows. Half a week out from The Big Game, Google just dropped their spot. This time out, the company’s Pixel 7 is in the spotlight — specifically the smartphone’s impressive AI imaging features. Legally, one … Continue reading

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Google announces improved contextual translation features

Google announced a host of new translation-related features at its Live from Paris event today including improved contextual search, a redesigned iOS app and a seamless AR translation feature through Google Lens. The search giant is improving contextual translation in … Continue reading

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Google’s A.I.-powered ‘multisearch,’ which combines text and images in a single query, goes global

Amid other A.I.-focused announcements, Google today shared that its newer “multisearch” feature would now be available to global users on mobile devices, anywhere that Google Lens is already available. The search feature, which allows users to search using both text … Continue reading

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Retirement Plans in 2023: Choosing the Right Account

Retirement planning can easily be overlooked while juggling your career, raising children, paying off debt, and enjoying today. In fact, according to a Bankrate survey conducted in 2022, 55 percent of American workers are behind on their retirement savings. If … Continue reading

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How the US Can Stop Data Brokers’ Worst Practices—Right Now

Legal experts say a key law should already prevent brokers from collecting and selling data that’s weaponized against vulnerable people.

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What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide

Supersmart algorithms won’t take all the jobs, But they are learning faster than ever, doing everything from medical diagnostics to serving up ads.

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Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover could harm gamers, British regulator says

The U.K.’s competition regulator said Wednesday that Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard could harm competition in the U.K. gaming market.

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Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot is fun but sometimes more cautious than ChatGPT

Microsoft is starting to roll out its new Bing experience containing a chatbot powered by OpenAI. It’s sometimes unwilling to do things that ChatGPT will.

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