Author Archives: Techme101

Google CEO adds a new calendar feature at Stripe co-founder’s request

While users often tag companies and CEOs with online feedback and complaints, you know you’ve made it when the CEO not only replies to you, but also implements the change you’ve asked for.

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GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence

Researchers studying the emotional impact of tools like ChatGPT propose a new kind of benchmark that measures a model’s emotional and social impact.

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India’s Rapido begins testing food delivery to take on Swiggy, Zomato

Rapido’s beta food delivery service has popped up in three key localities in Bengaluru before a broader rollout.

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Paid ChatGPT Users: GPT-4o Back as Default After Outcry – ‘Like Losing a Friend’

CEO Sam Altman announced this change along with numerous others to OpenAI’s proprietary ChatGPT chatbot.

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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

People select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.” Instagram then finds overlaps with friends who chose the same things.

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Monarch Tractors won’t be built by Foxconn after Ohio factory sale

Monarch’s tractors were the only vehicles being built by Foxconn in Ohio after Lordstown Motors, Fisker Inc., and IndiEV went bankrupt.

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday: 100+ Updates Including Azure OpenAI Service, Memory Corruption Flaw

Microsoft patched CVE-2025-50165, an “extremely high-risk” memory corruption flaw in its graphics component that could let attackers execute code over the network.

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Pebble’s smartwatch is back: Pebble Time 2 specs revealed

The Pebble Time 2’s final smartwatch specs are revealed. (And yes, you can call it a “Pebble” again!)

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Pocket FM gives its writers an AI tool to transform narratives, write cliffhangers, and more

Pocket FM is building LLM to help users write faster and in turn, produce more audio shows.

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Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

Data suggests leading adult site Pornhub lost more than one million visitors in two weeks.

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