Genetic testing companies like 23andMe and Ancestry offer a pretty enticing prospect. Just mail off a little bit of your spit in a tube and the company's lab can reveal the details of your ethnic background and trace the many branches of your family tree. The popularity of such tests …
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The spread of misinformation is a massive problem online, and generative AI is only helping boost the creation of inauthentic or real-but-repurposed media. Even in the pre-generative-AI era, an image surfaced through a quick Google search might have been used out of context or attached to a less-than-reliable website. Google …
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OpenAI recently made two big adjustments to ChatGPT. People who pay for the company’s $20-a-month ChatGPT Plus subscription can now prompt it to browse the internet, although ChatGPT is locked into Bing’s search engine. Subscribers can also ask the chatbot to create images using Dall-E 3 in beta. This isn’t …
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A few well-placed security cameras can help you keep an eye on your property wherever you are. Arlo, maker of some of our favorite home security gadgets, has jumped ahead of Black Friday with its own suite of deals on security cameras and video doorbells right now. We've noted the …
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Google is currently running a beta test of its new Google Play Games for PC service, enabling you to play Android games on your Windows desktop or laptop. The free service allows you to play select titles on a bigger screen with a keyboard and mouse. Google syncs your progress …
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Assassin's Creed Mirage takes us around 9th-century Baghdad, where you'll find everyday people lying on rugs in verdure courtyards while scholars observe stars from rooftops. This is the third time we return to West Asia under Islamic rule in the Assassin's Creed series, but here, we experience a turning point …
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Remember when Chromebooks first launched with the pitch that they'd be cheap and all they'd need to run was a web browser, so you didn't have to worry about specs? Yeah. Well, they mostly lived up to the cheap part, but the specs … those are hit or miss. To …
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The exact timing varies, but eventually it comes for many of us: seasonal affective disorder. (It happened to me this week.) The days are shorter, the skies are drearier, and winter looms ahead. We can't make the sun shine year-round, but we can help the transition to hibernation mode feel …
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Bird-watching, or birding, is an admittedly curious pastime. You're essentially spying on little feathery creatures trying to go about their lives. Rather than landing you in jail though, this hobby can actually make you friends, improve your focus and concentration, and enrich your life. (Maybe even get you a show …
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The opening hours of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 feel slick and cinematic, like a well-edited superhero movie. It’s the kind of game you sit back with, soak up. If mucking up your PlayStation 5 controllers weren’t an issue, it would go perfect with a bucket of popcorn. Just because it’s massive, …
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