News

Over the next year, parents whose children have Android phones and tablets will notice a new setting called “school time,” Google announced Thursday. The parental control allows caregivers to set limits on their child’s device functionality while at school, or during other periods when they want to minimize distraction. The …

As students prepare to go back to school, finding reliable online homework help services can be a challenge. Websites touting “homework help,” for example, are often obscuring dicey services that simply complete assignments for you (done both by human and robot hands), while self-proclaimed “tutors” peddle possible money-grabbing scams. Educators …

Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products that third parties sold on its platform. The CPSC unanimously voted to hold Amazon legally responsible for third-party sellers' defective products. Now, …

In less than a week, Swifties have turned their community into an online election headquarters for US vice president Kamala Harris—and the campaign wants in on the effort. After President Joe Biden announced that he would not seek reelection last week, Emerald Medrano, 22, flipped on the news. As he …

A few weeks ago, a Google search for “deepfake nudes jennifer aniston” brought up at least seven high-up results that purported to have explicit, AI-generated images of the actress. Now they have vanished. Google product manager Emma Higham says that new adjustments to how the company ranks results, which have …

When former US president Donald Trump announced a plan to establish a national “bitcoin stockpile” if he is reelected, the crowd at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, erupted into a fit of celebration. The frontrunner in the upcoming election was speaking their language. “For too long, the government …

Swiping apps have gamified dating. Date Like Goblins wants to solve that by turning first dates into gaming sessions. The app, which launched today via Kickstarter, gets users in the dating game through rather traditional means. They set up a profile, answer prompts, upload a photo (only if they want …

On May 13, OpenAI unveiled a new GPT-4o AI model to power its ChatGPT chatbot. The newest version is wildly capable and much more humanlike, with the ability to solve equations, tell bedtime stories, and claims to identify emotions from facial expressions. OpenAI has made a big deal about wanting …