OpenAI is an unconventional company in many ways, but last November it borrowed a page from the standard tech industry playbook: It held a developer conference where CEO Sam Altman urged software makers to build on top of ChatGPT. The company said it would soon launch a marketplace where developers …
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When Beeper launched a version of its long-in-the-works “iMessage for Android” app a couple of weeks ago, flaunting its ability to turn green Android texts into Apple’s proprietary blue bubble messages, the upstart knew that this would likely get Apple’s attention. It just didn’t anticipate getting this much attention. Since …
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If you're in the market for a new smartphone, you could choose one of the best folding phones—like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 or the Google Pixel Fold—rather than opting for a traditional single-screen model. The foldable form factor is getting more popular, even though it comes at a …
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In 1994, French artist Jean-Marc Philippe conceived of a spacetime capsule named KEO. This satellite would launch into space and orbit the Earth while carrying samples of our dirt, air, and water. Philippe also envisioned that it would have billions of personal messages on CD-ROMs, a collection so vast it …
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Google violated California and federal antitrust laws through deals that stifled competition for its Play mobile app store, a jury in San Francisco unanimously found today. The verdict delivers the first significant US courtroom loss for big tech in the years-long campaign by rivals, regulators, and prosecutors to tame the …
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UPDATE: December 8, 5:30 pm. Beeper said on Friday it was experiencing an outage and that some Beeper Mini users were not able to send or receive messages. TechCrunch reported that Android users sending messages to iPhones via Beeper Mini are seeing an error message that reads, “Failed to lookup …
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Update: Nothing has removed Nothing Chats from the Play Store and has delayed its launch due to “several bugs." However, Sunbird itself sent a notification to its users citing security concerns—the app isn't end-to-end encrypted as the company claimed. Having predominantly used Android phones, I am far too familiar with …
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I swear I used to have more time than I do now. Sometimes I wonder how much of the reason why is my phone. It's so easy to lose a half hour here and there to mindless scrolling. Now, it's OK if you don't feel guilty about your phone usage—we …
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As Israel intensifies its war on Hamas, civilians in Gaza and nearby parts of Israel live under constant threat of aerial assault. Israel's military is launching hundreds of strikes a day on Gaza and said Friday it was moving in ground forces, while Hamas is firing hundreds of rockets back …
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OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that unleashed ChatGPT on the world last November, is making the chatbot app a lot more chatty. An upgrade to the ChatGPT mobile apps for iOS and Android announced today lets a person speak their queries to the chatbot and hear it respond with its …
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