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Volkswagen brings ChatGPT into compact cars
BERLIN/LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Volkswagen presented its first vehicles featuring a voice assistant that integrates ChatGPT technology at the CES electronics trade fair in Las Vegas on Monday, enabling drivers to have researched content read…
Opinion: External drives taking too long to load?
This week a reader writes: I have a Mac desktop with two 1 terabyte external SSDs, one used for Time Machine backups and one for my daily files.
As I understand it, these drives have to be “ejected” before disconnecting them. I’ve found…
Billionaire space battle heats up as Bezos eyes SpaceX rival
When the Vulcan rocket lifts off for the first time as soon as next week, multiple billionaires are sure to be watching.
Built through a joint venture of Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp, the new vehicle is poised to take on Elon Musk’s…
CES 2024: a preview of what car makers have in store for the tech show
From January 9 to 12, 2024, numerous automakers will be on-site at CES in Las to unveil their latest in-car technologies. A must-attend event for many years now, the consumer electronics show will put the spotlight not only on new…
Esports-Thirteen-year-old becomes first player to beat Tetris
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 13-year-old American is the first person to ever beat Tetris, forcing the more than three-decade-old classic Nintendo video game into a "kill screen."
Willis Gibson, who goes by the streamer name Blue Scuti, said…
China’s Baidu cancels US$3.6bil purchase of livestreaming site
BEIJING: Chinese internet giant Baidu has said it was cancelling the planned multi-billion-dollar purchase of livestreaming platform YY Live, partly blaming its inability to get government approval.
Baidu, the country's top search engine…
The top 10 most popular emojis of 2023
Emojis, or emoticons, are an everyday feature of our private and public messages. And it seems that laughing emoticons were the most popular this year. Find out which emojis were the most used on social networks in 2023.
A picture is worth…
Study: Avoid these behaviors in the office if you don’t want to annoy your colleagues!
Many people take advantage of their company's remote working policy during the festive season to extend their stay while doing some work out of the office, avoiding the inconveniences that come with corporate life. One such inconvenience…
New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft in copyright clash
WASHINGTON: The New York Times sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft in a US court on Wednesday, alleging that the companies' powerful AI models used millions of articles for training without permission.
Through their AI chatbots, the…
Opinion: The 10 best tech books of 2023
In the tech world, 2023 was a year of pure chaos.
There was the artificial intelligence boom that breathed life into an industry in dire want of its next big thing, delivering a torrent of new startups, investment and hype. There was also…