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Open AI has unveiled Canvas, a new ChatGPT interface specifically crafted for developers that is now available in beta. Canvas has been developed using GPT-4o and makes it possible, among other things, to use a separate window for code. It also provides a number of shortcuts that can be used to review code, track down bugs,…
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Ah, gestures. Whether we’re waltzin’ around the world or working on a touch-enabled tech toy, don’t you just love how much you can convey with a simple swish of a single finger? While our single-fingered movements in the physical world may be more, let’s say, communicative in nature, here in the land o’ Android, a…
Are you a robot? Google really, really wants to know. The answer to this question is demanded of web users 200 million times a day via CAPTCHAs — “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” a system owned and operated by Google. Google got into the CAPTCHA game in 2009 when…
Apple has been accused of violating union rights, according to a complaint filed by the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) . The complaint, filed in May by the NLRB and released Monday, accused Apple of several federal labor law violations, including “coercively interrogating employees about their union sympathies;” “confiscating union flyers from its employee…
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the latest AI features for Copilot+ PCs, with improved Windows search and a tool that can detect and act on the contents of a user’s screen. Click to Do places an interactive overlay on a PC’s desktop screen and provides suggested actions for ways to interact with text and images. This could…
We live in a multi-device world. At a minimum, you almost certainly have both a computer and a phone — and potentially many more devices than that! And when it comes to transferring files between your Windows PC and whatever phone you’re using, you’re absolutely spoiled for choice. Microsoft, Google, and Apple have all developed…
Did you ever watch the early 2000s TV series Scrubs? The show revolved around a young doctor named JD who always meant well but often got lost in his own head and ended up making ill-advised decisions. In one episode, he started seeing a fantastical opera singer who’d show up over his shoulder and sing…
Microsoft on Tuesday announced several updates to its free Microsoft Copilot and paid-for Copilot Pro services aimed at making the personal AI assistant more powerful and easier to converse with. Among the updates is Copilot Vision. Built natively into Microsoft’s Edge browser, the Vision feature lets Copilot see what a user sees when surfing the…
When California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a key piece of AI oversight legislation Sunday, he said he did so because the measure “falls short of providing a flexible, comprehensive solution to curbing the potential catastrophic risks.” He then said he “has asked the world’s leading experts on genAI to help California develop workable guardrails for deploying genAI, focusing…