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Free cash coming to Facebook users. Here’s how to claim your share
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Facebook earned more than $110 billion last year by selling advertisements targeted at its users, powered...
Generative AI: Five essential reads about the new era of creativity, job anxiety, misinformation, bias and plagiarism
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The light and dark sides of AI have been in the public spotlight for many years....
If you buy it, why can’t you fix it? Here’s why Australia still doesn’t have the ‘right to repair’
Credit: Shutterstock When you buy a product, you expect to be able to repair it. The problem is, many modern...
The problem with cashless payments
Cashless payments have advantages, but only to those who have the means to make them. Credit: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels, CC BY...
What are passkeys? A cybersecurity researcher explains how you can use your phone to make passwords a thing of the past
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Passwords could soon become passé. Effective passwords are cumbersome, all the more so when reinforced by...
Vampire Survivors: How developers used gambling psychology to create a BAFTA-winning game
Vampire Survivors game play. Credit: Poncle, CC BY The independent game Vampire Survivors delivered a shock result at the 2023...
Amazon joins generative AI race, targets tech at cloud customers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Amazon.com Inc. is joining Microsoft Corp. and Google in the generative artificial intelligence race, announcing technology...
Virtual fitting rooms can be a double-edged sword
For their first study, the researchers compared customer purchase data four weeks before and four weeks after an online women’s...
Clapper app finds new users as TikTok uncertainty looms
Credit: Clapper Edison Chen doesn't see his short video social network, Clapper, as a TikTok competitor. But at first glance,...
Whatever happened to the Metaverse?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When you first glide into Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality app from Meta Platforms Inc., you're...
Tax credit tool helps consumers track EV savings
Consumers have a new resource for finding plug-in electric and fuel cell vehicle tax credits. Current owners and those considering...
Global PC shipments plunge 29% in rough economy
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Shipments of Apple Macs plunged during the first quarter of this year as the global personal...
Kids judge Alexa smarter than Roomba, but say both deserve kindness
Kids agree that it's wrong to be attack smart technologies like Roomba or an Alexa, despite ranking Amazon's virtual assistant...
Don’t bet with ChatGPT: Study shows language AIs often make irrational decisions
Language AI’s have trouble weighing potential gains and losses. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The past few years have seen an...
Don’t bet on ChatGPT to always be rational
The default and fine-tuned LRMs’ accuracy using the threshold method and its associated ground-truths: normal, weak normal and weak (introduced...
The camera never lied… until AI told it to
An image generated by Jos Avery using the AI program Midjourney. An amateur photographer who goes by the name "ibreakphotos"...
Avoid using free public phone charging stations, FBI Denver warns
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Federal Bureau of Investigation officials in Denver are warning travelers and shoppers to avoid public free...
Convenience, control among benefits that inspire automated feature use
A Penn State-led team of researchers suggest that focusing on certain benefits of automated features, such as autocorrect, may lead...
Apple to make small number of job cuts in some corporate retail teams
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Apple Inc. is eliminating a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams, according to...
Slow down your thinking to spot fake websites, says study
Example real (top) and fake (bottom) screenshots used in the current research. Credit: Computers in Human Behavior (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107648...
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