AI is getting dangerously good at political persuasion

A research paper found that chatbots overall were 10 times more effective than TV ads and other media in changing someone’s ...
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Discord's new features let parents monitor teens without reading texts

Discord unveiled a major update to its Family Center to give parents more oversight of their teens’ activity without sacrificing privacy. Drone footage shows river breaking its banks in Washington ...
Forbes

Google Messages Could Finally Let You Recover Deleted Texts

Google Messages is testing a long-awaited trash folder feature, enabling users to easily recover accidentally deleted texts. This significant update, found in the latest beta, will eliminate the ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Visual Studio Copilot 'Planning' Feature (Preview)

Microsoft has introduced a new AI-powered capability called Planning in Visual Studio, now available in public preview as part of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14. The feature extends GitHub Copilot's ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large ...
IEEE

Aligning Visual and Textual Features: A Dual-Flow Retrieval Framework with Semantic Enhancement

Image retrieval as a subtask of cross-modal image-text retrieval primarily involves using an example image and its corresponding modified text description as queries to search for the target image in ...
Android Police

YouTube’s biggest redesign in years brings sleek look and enhanced features

Timi is a news and deals writer who's been reporting on technology for over a decade. He loves breaking down complex subjects into easy-to-read pieces that keep you informed. But his recent passion ...
Android Authority

Galaxy Watch 7 gets visual refresh, Now Bar, and new running features with One UI 8 in the US

After rolling out to users in Korea, the One UI 8 Watch update for the Galaxy Watch 7 is coming to the US. The update is based on Google’s latest Wear OS 6 platform. Samsung is also testing a beta for ...
Bleeping Computer

Notepad gets free AI features on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11

Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. Currently, this change is being rolled out to Windows 11 Insiders in the ...
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BioWare veteran says "flying is Anthem's best feature" but also its "worst feature" because it broke the game, and reckons Monster Hunter is a great example of how to add ...

Anthem, BioWare's now-dead live-service game, got its fair share of flak at launch, but there's one thing pretty much everyone who's played it can agree on: the flying was awesome. Mark Darrah, a ...
techtimes

Google Debuts 'Read Aloud' Feature on Pixels for All Article, Text Screenshots

Google has debuted a new feature called "Read Aloud" for Pixel smartphones, which will be available for all screenshots featuring articles, texts, and more. The latest feature will read aloud the text ...