Day: June 15, 2023

Cable TV giants Comcast and Spectrum are ready to get on the FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) train big time. As reported by Cord Cutters, the two pay-TV companies are engaged in a joint venture to release their own 4K streamer called the Xumo Box, which will be rolled out to Comcast and Spectrum subscribers […]

It seems that despite the massive push to increase its own market share in the AI chatbot-verse, Google’s parent company Alphabet has been warning its own staff about the dangers of AI chatbots. “The Google parent has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots” and warned “its engineers to avoid direct […]

Luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz is outfitting its MBUX Voice Assistant with ChatGPT as part of a new US-only beta program. Joining the beta will allow drivers of over 900,000 “vehicles equipped with MBUX [to hold] “more dynamic” conversations with the onboard AI. In the official announcement post, the company states it's seeking to improve its […]

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) thinks it has the answer to alert fatigue in the form of automated actions. The new capability, part of AWS Security Hub, aims to prevent potentially dangerous human errors from occurring during the manual sifting through of large numbers of security alerts, where the repetitive nature of the task […]

Intel has made its rumored processor rebranding official with the announcement of the new Intel Core and Intel Core Ultra brands, phasing out the 'i' in its Core series processors that the company has used for more than a decade. “Our client roadmap demonstrates how Intel is prioritizing innovation and technology leadership with products like […]

Not enough of us are backing up our photos and videos – that’s the message from Mixbook following its survey on the photography habits of Americans.  While there’s no shortage of photo cloud storage and cloud backup services, the popular online photo printing service revealed just 35% of surveyed respondents regularly backup the photos on […]

Apple just announced some exciting software updates to its Apple TV 4k coming in autumn. Among the updates, there's something that will make those upgrading their streaming life with a VPN service very happy. The tech giant will finally release long-awaited support for third-party VPN apps, allowing developers to create dedicated applications. At the moment, […]

With online services increasingly becoming the center of people's lives, the amount of personal data we share on the web is growing exponentially. When data handling scandals occur, such as Meta's latest $1.3 billion blunder, we all get reminded of what's at stake for our right to privacy. However, the reality is that Big Tech […]

On the heels of the official release of Companion Mode — letting you use a single account on up to four devices — comes a report that multi-account support is in the works for the Android app. Multi-account support “would allow you to switch between profiles on the same device” according to a report from […]

Anyone who read Techradar's glowing Technics EAH-AZ80 review or noted our coverage of that flagship set of earbuds alongside the also-new EAH-AZ60M2 will know about the first-time-ever feature that most impressed us in this new lineup: rock-solid Bluetooth 5.3 multipoint connectivity to three devices simultaneously. But so often, such world-first features are the preserve of […]