Columbus, OH

Ready to upgrade your phone? Don't trade in or recycle your old tech just yet. Turn it into your own home security camera in minutes by installing a free app that can help you keep an eye on your home. Upgrading to the latest iPhone 15 or budget-friendly Google Pixel...

How to Turn Any Old iPhone or Android Phone Into a Home Security Camera

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SAMSUNG has revealed that a raft of new camera tricks, including a Astro Portrait feature, are being rolled out to older devices soon. The features will be included in the jam-packed the One UI 6.1.1 update, which arrived hand-in-hand with two new phones. It's the software that will come pre-installed...

Samsung reveals nine features coming to Galaxy phones soon with a free Android upgrade – including new camera tricks

The Android feature now includes a new “About this image” tab that can instantly pull up an image’s metadata, source, and whether a Google AI watermark is present to help determine its legitimacy. It could be helpful against weird out-of-context political images on social media. The feature...

Circle to Search can quickly figure out if an image is fake.

AMAZON is planning to charge for an AI-equipped version of its flagship voice assistant, and users are furious. The online retailer and tech giant has been teasing a new Alexa with generative AI integration for nearly a year. Now insiders say the company is planning to release it on a...

Secret Amazon plot ‘to charge for new Alexa AI’ sparks panic as users cry ‘the last thing I would ever do is pay’

Microsoft has quietly updated its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions with a free perk. There's now a built-in VPN service available in the Microsoft Defender app on Windows PCs, Macs, iPhones, Android phones, and iPads. The VPN includes 50 GB of bandwidth per user for secure and anonymous browsing,...

Microsoft 365 Now Includes a VPN

New York City, NY

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

AMAZON Alexa experienced an outage as hundreds struggled to access the service on Tuesday evening. Over 300 Amazon Alexa users reported issues with the personal assistant application just before 8;15 pm EST, according to Downdetector. Around half of the reported problems were associated with Alexa’s ability to connect. Alexa users took out their frustrations on […]

Amazon Alexa down updates – Voice assistant faces outage as users get ‘can’t do that’ message when trying to play music

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Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

MOD Pizza has over 500 locations across the country with 22 restaurants in Illinois. The Washington-based chain offers fast-casual fare known for its customized, artisan-style pizzas. Customers can choose from over 40 toppings and 8 sauces to create their own masterpiece.

Bankruptcy Looms for Major Pizza Chain With Chicago Suburban Locations

Virginia State

Bryshere Gray's name has been added to a growing list. Some Virginians have been keeping up with the ever-increasing tales of celebrities and their alleged connections to the saga of Sean Diddy Combs. There are now rumors that Empire actor Bryshere Gray is suing Diddy and Will Smith.

Empire actor Bryshere Gray is allegedly suing Will Smith and Sean Combs

Starting next month, Google will require apps on the Play Store to provide a “stable, engaging, responsive user experience.” If they don’t, the company plans to eventually remove those apps from the store. This policy is part of Google’s latest spam policy update and is designed to...

Google is getting ready to remove lots of Android apps from the Play Store

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NEW YORK — (AP) — A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday — from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks' mobile app — was triggered by a distributed denial of service cyberattack, according to the tech giant.

Microsoft says that a cyberattack triggered the hours-long outage impacting Azure customers

The text-to-image generator, which is trained on Getty’s stock pictures, now uses an upgraded version of Nvidia’s Edify AI model, making it faster and more accurate. It also comes with new features to control the “camera settings” used in an AI-generated image, such as depth of field or focal length.

Getty upgrades its AI image generator.

As it usually does for the end of a month, Microsoft has posted up a list of updates it has made for its Teams online meeting and chat services for the month of July. We have already reported on a number of them, including support for creating custom emojis in chats, the expansion of Copilot speaker recognition for Teams Rooms for Windows, and turning off notifications for channel posts, along with support for customizing sound notifications.

Microsoft reveals more updates for Teams, including a new gallery view for meetings and more

The company claims its triple laser PX3-PRO is the world’s first UST projector to be “Designed for Xbox.” What that means isn’t entirely clear given the Xbox can’t take advantage of the projector’s 240Hz maximum refresh rate. More useful may be the $3,499.99 PX3-PRO’s...

Hisense’s ultra-short throw laser projector is now Xbox certified.

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Rumors of Apple Intelligence's delays may have been greatly exaggerated. Apple's own brand of generative AI, which is set to spread across iPhones, iPads, and Macs later this year, is arriving today – at least bits of it – in an early form developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1.It's the first early access to Apple's promised generative features and a hopeful sign that some parts of Apple Intelligence will arrive with the eagerly-anticipated iPhone 16. Apple is rolling out iOS 18.1 dev beta, iPadOS 18.1 dev betas, and macOS 15.1 dev betas to developers and...

Apple Intelligence makes first appearance in iOS 18.1 developers beta, teasing a generative AI future

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook and Instagram are still running ads that promote online marketplaces for illegal drugs — including cocaine, hallucinogens, and prescription opioids — months after the publication first noted that Meta was facing a federal investigation for doing so. Meta says it will...

Meta still has a drug problem.

There have been a lot of beneficiaries of the AI boom — phones, cars, people who are too exhausted to read emails — but none as surprising as the world of robotics. With the help of large language models like ChatGPT, companies like Figure are imbuing their bots with personality or supercharging their ability to understand multi-step commands. From Nvidia to Tesla’s Optimus, there’s clearly a robot renaissance happening and chatbots are firmly at the middle of it.

Google Shows Off AI-Powered Robots That Are Ready To Serve

Minnesota State

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The hit History Channel series "American Pickers" is gearing up for an exciting return to Minnesota this fall. The show's production team has announced plans to film episodes throughout the state in September 2024, offering locals a chance to showcase their unique collections and share their stories with a national audience.

"American Pickers" Set to Unearth Minnesota's Hidden Treasures

Sign up to uncover the latest in emerging technology. Walmart is bringing AI to brick-and-mortar. The retail giant filed a patent application for a “machine learning framework.” Walmart’s patent details the infrastructure and method for transferring data between machine learning models, aiming to make it easier to gather data and save on time and resources.

Walmart AI Patent Signals Continued Pressure to Compete with Amazon

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Explore Beaufort SC

The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

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Ring camera features are back online following AWS problems

On Monday evening, Amazon Web Services sent a notice about issues in the US-EAST-1 region of its server networks, which supports many of the internet’s services....

Ring camera features are back online following AWS problems

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