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FOR SOME DIGITAL DETOX, LOOK TO THE LATEST IN CRAFT KITS

Digital diversions may have us tethered to tech, but screen fatigue is real.

'IF,' IMPERFECT BUT CHARMING,MAY HAVE US ALL CHECKING UNDER BEDS FOR OUR OLD FRIENDS

How do you make a kid’s movie that appeals not only to the kids, but the adults sitting next to them? Most movies try to achieve this by throwing in a layer of wink-wink pop culture references that’ll earn a few knowing laughs from parents but fly nicely over the heads of the young ones.

NEW CARS IN CALIFORNIA COULD ALERT DRIVERS FOR BREAKING THE SPEED LIMIT

California could eventually join the European Union in requiring all new cars to alert drivers when they break the speed limit, a proposal aimed at reducing traffic deaths that would likely impact motorists across the country should it become law.

IS THAT 'HER'? OPENAI PAUSES A CHATGPT VOICE AFTER SOME SAY IT SOUNDS LIKE SCARLETT JOHANSSON

OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some users said it sounded like Scarlett Johansson, who famously voiced a fictional, and at the time futuristic, AI assistant in the 2013 film “Her.”

AVERAGE US VEHICLE AGE HITS RECORD 12.6 YEARS AS HIGH PRICES FORCE PEOPLE TO KEEP THEM LONGER

Cars, trucks and SUVs in the U.S. keep getting older, hitting a record average age of 12.6 years in 2024 as people hang on to their vehicles largely because new ones cost so much.

LAURYN HILL'S CLASSIC 'MISEDUCATION' ALBUM TOPS APPLE MUSIC'S LIST OF BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

Let the debate begin. Who has the best music albums ever? Apple Music certainly has an idea.

NVIDIA'S PROFIT SOARS.UNDERSCORING ITS DOMINANCE IN CHIPS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Nvidia on Wednesday overshot Wall Street estimates as its profit skyrocketed, bolstered by the chipmaking dominance that has made the company an icon of the artificial intelligence boom.

CYBERSECURITY LABELING FOR SMART DEVICES AIMS TO HELP PEOPLE CHOOSE ITEMS LESS LIKELY TO BE HACKED

Consumer labels designed to help Americans pick smart devices that are less vulnerable to hacking could begin appearing on products before the holiday shopping season, federal officials said this week.

FCC TO CONSIDER RULES FOR AI-GENERATED POLITICAL ADS ON TV AND RADIO, BUT CAN'T TOUCH STREAMING

The head of the Federal Communications Commission introduced on Wednesday a proposal to require political advertisers to disclose when they use content generated by artificial intelligence in broadcast television and radio ads.

USING AI, MASTERCARD EXPECTS TO FIND COMPROMISED CARDS QUICKER, BEFORE THEY GET USED BY CRIMINALS

Mastercard said this week that it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal.

Mac + iPad

THE VERY BEST FEATURES OF BOTH PLATFORMS WORKING TOGETHER

Q&A: CIA'S CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST'S CAUTIOUS EMBRACE OF GENERATIVE AI

Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster.

THE FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE BUYING YOUR FIRST USED TESLA

It's a good time to be in the market for a used Tesla. Tesla's significant price cuts over the past year on its new cars have caused the prices of used Teslas to drop significantly.

SENATORS URGE $32 BILLION IN EMERGENCY SPENDING ON AI AFTER FINISHING YEARLONG REVIEW

A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a new report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to “harness the opportunities and address the risks” of the quickly developing technology.

WAYMO IS LATEST COMPANY UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR AUTONOMOUS OR PARTIALLY AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGY

The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles.

GM'S CRUISE TO START TESTING ROBOTAXIS IN PHOENIX AREA WITH HUMAN SAFETY DRIVERS ON BOARD

General Motors’ troubled Cruise autonomous vehicle unit said it will start testing robotaxis in Arizona this week with human safety drivers on board. Read more at:https://www.magzter.com/stories/technology/AppleMagazine/GMS-CRUISE-TO-START-TESTING-ROBOTAXIS-IN-PHOENIX-AREA-WITH-HUMAN-SAFETY-DRIVERS-ON-BOARD

YOUNG SOUTH KOREANS ARE INCREASINGLY DRAWN TO BUDDHISM VIA SOCIAL MEDIA-SAVVY INFLUENCERS

A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: \"This too shall pass!\"

INTEL EXEC ON BRINGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INTO THE WORKPLACE

Artificial intelligence is just about everywhere you look these days — including the workplace.

OPENAI LAUNCHES GPTO, IMPROVING CHATGPT'S TEXT, VISUAL AND AUDIO CAPABILITIES

OpenAI’s latest update to its artificial intelligence model can mimic human cadences in its verbal responses and can even try to detect people’s moods.

VOICE-CLONING TECHNOLOGY BRINGING A KEY SUPREME COURT MOMENT TO 'LIFE'

Seventy years ago on Friday, no one outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building heard it when Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on school desegregation.

ILLNESS TOOK AWAY HER VOICE.AI CREATED A REPLICA SHE CARRIES IN HER PHONE

The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant.

WILL AI REPLACE DOCTORS WHO READ X-RAYS.OR JUST MAKE THEM BETTER THAN EVER?

How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job?

GOOGLE UNLEASHES AI IN SEARCH, RAISING HOPES FOR BETTER RESULTS AND FEARS ABOUT LESS WEB TRAFFIC

Google this week rolled out a retooled search engine that will frequently favor responses crafted by artificial intelligence over website links, a shift promising to quicken the quest for information while also potentially disrupting the flow of money-making internet traffic. Read more at:https://www.magzter.com/stories/technology/AppleMagazine/GOOGLE-UNLEASHES-AI-IN-SEARCH-RAISING-HOPES-FOR-BETTER-RESULTS-AND-FEARS-ABOUT-LESS-WEB-TRAFFIC

US ENERGY PANEL APPROVES RULE TO EXPAND TRANSMISSION OF RENEWABLE POWER

Federal energy regulators this week approved a long-awaited rule to make it easier to transmit renewable energy such as wind and solar power to the electric grid — a key part of President Joe Biden’s goal to eliminate carbon emissions economy-wide by 2050.

iPad Pro M4

LOGIC PRO & FINAL CUT PRO: THE NEW HEIGHTS OF MOBILE COMPUTING

ROKU WILL STREAM WEEKLY MLB GAME ON SUNDAYS.VIEWERS WON'T NEED ONE OF THE SERVICE'S DEVICES

Roku will carry Major League Baseball games on Sundays beginning this week, and viewers will be able to watch for free and not be required to use a Roku device, the streaming service announced Monday.

SMALL, WELL-BUILT CHINESE EV CALLED THE SEAGULL POSES A BIG THREAT TO THE US AUTO INDUSTRY

A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling.

FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM FACE FRESH EU DIGITAL SCRUTINY OVER CHILD SAFETY MEASURES

The European Union opened fresh investigations Thursday into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms.

CHANGES FROM VISA MEAN AMERICANS WILL CARRY FEWER PHYSICAL CREDIT, DEBIT CARDS IN THEIR WALLETS

Your wallet may soon be getting thinner.

TECH TIP: PROTECTING YOUR CAR FROM THE GROWING RISK OF KEYLESS VEHICLE THEFTS

They appear like ghosts in the night, standing outside your house, one holding up an antenna while the other crouches next to the car parked on the driveway. Within seconds, your car is gone, yet another victim amid a surge in auto theft enabled by the technology designed to make it easier to unlock and start vehicles.