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Kyle Wiggers: A Popular Technique to Make AI More Efficient has Drawbacks
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/17/a-popular-technique-to-make-ai-more-efficient-has-drawbacks/
Imad Khan: ChatGPT Glossary: 47 AI Terms That Everyone Should Know
No power or cell service? Life-saving satellite tech available on your iPhone, Android
https://www.wesh.com/article/hurriane-milton-satellite-iphone-android-how-to/62551394
Andrew R. Chow: Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro
https://time.com/7093536/surgeons-apple-vision-pro/
Dan Goodin: Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
Zachary McAuliffe: Google Drive Full? Here's How You Can Get More Storage Without Paying for It
Davey Winder: Hackers Force Chrome Users To Hand Over Google Passwords, Here’s How
Adam Benjamin & Zachary McAuliffe: Clear Your iPhone Cache Before You Upgrade to iOS 18
Chris Baraniuk: How pen and paper comes to the rescue in an IT crisis
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9zx22ley8o
Davey Winder: Google’s New Gmail App Password Rules — You Have 24 Hours (September 30) To Comply
Anthony Spadafora: 2.9 Billion Hit in One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever — Full Names, Addresses and SSNs Exposed
Clifford Colby: Check if Your Social Security Number Is Included in the National Public Data Breach
Andreas Dumont: 15 open-source apps that make any PC better — for free
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2432103/the-15-best-free-tools-for-your-windows-pc.html
Melissa Heikkilä: What are AI agents?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/05/1094711/what-are-ai-agents/
Better Business Bureau Tip: How to Spot and Avoid Identity Theft
https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/16951-bbb-tip-identity-theft
Kim Komando: How to Stop Google from Listening to Your Every Word
Nelson Aguilar: How to Boost Your Phone Signal for Better Reception on iPhone or Android
Jackson Chen: Google's New Built-In AI is the Biggest Update to the Browser in Over 15 Years
https://www.inverse.com/tech/google-chrome-gemini-ai-browser
Benj Edwards: The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/
Emily Stewart: Credit cards are getting smarter (How banks are using huge amounts of data to separate legitimate purchases from scams)
Mayank Parmar: Frustration Grows over Google's AI Overviews Feature, How to Disable
Trevor Mogg: ChatGPT AI Chatbot Can Now Be Used Without an Account
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpt-no-longer-requires-an-account/
Zac Bowden: Microsoft reveals subscription pricing for using Windows 10 beyond October 2025, and it's not cheap
Summer Stephan: Tech Scams are Financially Devastating Senior Citizens
The author is the District Attorney for the County of San Diego.
Tekla S. Perry: Meet the PHOLED That Is Transforming Displays
Blue phosphorescent materials fix OLED display weaknesses, improving energy efficiency and longevity.
Dan Goodin: This Tiny Device is Sending Updated iPhones into a Never-ending DoS Loop
The Flipper Zero device can cause havoc on nearby electronic devices.
Emma Beddington: 50 of the Weirdest, Most Wonderful Corners of the Web
Something for everyone, including: Music from selected decades and countries, Historical maps, Marine traffic, Word pronunciation, Live air traffic control chatter, Wildlife web cams, etc.
Karandeep Singh: Use Google Search like it’s 1998 to mark its 25th birthday
Joanna Goodrich: How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
Adobe and Pixar founders created tech that shaped modern animation
Includes a photo of 13 computer graphics pioneers, from the 1960s and 1970s. Younger generations take for granted what technology exists today, without a thought of how it came to exist.
Fernanda Lopez Halvorson: New Grant to Help More San Diegans Get Online (Free Internet Access)
The County is expanding its campaign to help more San Diegans get online.
You can "Raise You Hand" in a Zoom Meeting by waving.
If you enable one of its image analysis tools, Zoom itself can recognize when you physically raise your hand and turn that into a digital raised hand. Darn helpful, actually, and saves you having to remember where that “Raise Hand” button is located. To enable this feature, click on the tiny “^” adjacent to the Reactions button on your Zoom toolbar. A menu appears with one item:
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Scott J Shapiro: On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
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George Musser: How AI Knows Things No One Told It
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Jennifer Korn: 50 Years Ago, He Made the First Cell Phone Call
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Madhumita Murgia: OpenAI’s Red Team: The Experts Hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT
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David Zipper: The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
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