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Amazon Freevee Gets New Free Channels From NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal is bringing content from Saturday Night Live and Keeping Up With the Kardashians to Freevee and Xumo Play this summer. NBCUniversal has revealed it's making past seasons of Saturday Night Live, Keeping Up With the Kardashians and Top Chef available to watch on new free, ad-supported streaming TV -- or FAST -- channels. Amazon Freevee and Xumo Play will both begin offering NBCUnivers ... Read more
2023-06-30 20:20:20
AI's Teachable Moment: How ChatGPT Is Transforming the Classroom
Teachers and students are already harnessing the power of AI, with an eye toward the future. My 12-year-old nephew's bedroom is a shrine to monsters. Intricate Lego dragons loom ominously atop bookshelves jam-packed with reference works for the handmade creatures he painstakingly crafts out of clay. Then there are the paintings. Dozens of them. Plastered over the walls. Giant squid, kaiju, dinosa ... Read more
2023-06-30 20:19:50
Android Auto Lets You Use Google Maps on Phone, in Car Simultaneously
Google has seemingly stopped restricting Android Auto from displaying Google Maps on both your phone and car dashboard at the same time. Android Auto has been a helpful interface that abridges Google's operating system to use while driving, but it's had some limitations, like preventing Google Maps from displaying on a phone as it's being used on a car dashboard. Now Android Auto users on Reddit ... Read more
2023-06-30 20:16:16
UK porn age checks raise privacy concerns
Children will be better protected online under amended internet safety laws, the government insists, despite concerns around privacy. The Online Safety Bill will require age verification on services that publish or allow pornographic content. But digital rights groups say there is a lack of transparency around the tools and how they collect people's data. Tech minister Paul Scully admitted &quo ... Read more
2023-06-30 20:15:29
Google Working on Another Game Streaming Service, Report Says
Is this another Stadia? Google appears to be internally testing a new way for users to play online games, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The new product, reportedly called Playables, will let people play games on their mobile devices or computers via YouTube. Games could be played on the YouTube website or app. So far, Google doesn't appear to have immediate plans ... Read more
2023-06-30 00:08:01
Apple Reportedly Has New M3 MacBook Pro, iMac in the Works
The tech giant could release more than a dozen updated devices over the next 12 months, reports Bloomberg. Apple unveiled its new Vision Pro headset earlier this month, but that's not the only device the tech giant is expected to launch in the coming months. Apple reportedly has more than a dozen updated products set to be released later this year and into the first half of 2024, including new Ma ... Read more
2023-06-30 00:07:24
This Is Why Your Phone Keeps Getting So Damn Hot (and How to Prevent It)
If your phone gets too hot, you might experience issues with battery life and performance, or it could even be permanently damaged. Here are a few tips to help prevent overheating. It's the start of summer, and that means trips to the beach and backyard BBQs, which can lead to another summer phenomenon -- overheated phones. Now that temperatures are warmer, it's not at all unusual to grab your ... Read more
2023-06-30 00:06:23
Can Canada make big tech pay for news?
Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, and Google say they will block local news from their platforms in Canada after the country became the latest jurisdiction to pass a law aimed at forcing tech giants to pay news providers for content. What happens now? As president of La Presse, a leading French-language publication in Quebec, Pierre-Elliott Levasseur says he tried for years to negotiate paym ... Read more
2023-06-30 00:04:18
Acer Swift X 14 Review: Staid but Speedy OLED Ultraportable
A stellar 14.5-inch OLED display and strong performance from a 13th-gen Core i7 CPU and RTX 4050 GPU outweigh the Swift X 14's shortcomings. Beneath a compact and admittedly mundane exterior hides a powerful, OLED ultraportable for content creators. The Acer Swift X 14 is endowed with a gorgeous 14.5-inch OLED display and powered by the latest Intel and Nvidia silicon in the form of a 13th-gen Co ... Read more
2023-06-25 20:48:47
Google Pixel Tablet Review: Android Tablets Are Back
Google's fast tablet is also a dockable home hub. Will Google commit to its tablet vision this time? The world of Android tablets has been a weirdly up-and-down ride for the last decade or so. I remember Google's fantastic little 7-inch Nexus tablet back in 2012. And Google's considerably less successful Chromebook-meets-Android Pixel Slate, a sort of touchscreen laptop/tablet hybrid. That was Go ... Read more
2023-06-25 04:06:56