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Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice
Wired / 20min
We get it, relationships are hard. But asking ChatGPT how to do emotions is not going to work. Here are some better ideas.
Google Docs phishing scams are on the rise - here's what you need to know
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
Cybersecurity software company Check Point has identified a worrying new Google Docs phishing scam that is bypassing usual detection measures to get straight into victims’ inboxes. The researchers refer to the phishing scam as an evolution of BEC (business email compromise) 3.0, or one that maliciously uses legitimate sites to get access to a target’s mailbox. With so many companies now favoring
Tech warriors in the battle for Israel’s democracy
TechCrunch / 54min
Erel Margalit Contributor Erel Margalit is an Israeli high-tech investor, social entrepreneur, and former Knesset member. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jerusalem-based VC firm Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Margalit Startup City, the international collection of thematic socioeconomic hubs. Israel is a country that has battled for its existence and survival since Day 1. Having f
The iPhone's best app for long exposure photos is now free – here's how to use it
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 18min
If you fancied adding long exposure photography to your arsenal iPhone camera tricks, now is a good time to do just that – the best app for shooting light trails and wispy waterfalls, Spectre, has just been made free. Originally costing $2.99 / £2.99 / AU$4.49, Spectre has now been made into a free download because its maker has introduced a new Spectre Pro tier. Sure, you have to pay for the lat
15 Best Deals: Desktop Monitors, Gaming Keyboards, and Sex Toys
Wired / 20min
However you like to play, you can score a discount today.
NASA slammed into an asteroid. Hubble just spotted a spectacular effect.
Mashable / 21min
NASA 's unprecedented asteroid experiment is still churning out results. Last year in a mission called DART , the space agency intentionally slammed a sacrificial spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos , which was 7 million miles from Earth. Scientists hoped to prove civilization could alter the path of a menacing asteroid — should one be on a collision course with our planet — and they suc
7 Misconceptions About Open Source Software
How-To Geek / 26min
When it comes to free and open source software (FOSS), many people find themselves adrift in a sea of misconceptions and misunderstandings. This is unfortunate because FOSS is a critical component of the software ecosystem and provides enormous benefits.
NASA's rover photo shows water once absolutely gushed on Mars
Mashable / 1h
Mars once gushed with water. The Red Planet, long ago callously stripped of its insulating atmosphere, is today 1,000 times drier than the driest desert on Earth. But deep, roaring rivers used to flow through parts of the ancient Martian landscape. Earlier this year, NASA 's car-sized Perseverance rover found evidence of a "rollicking" and "high-energy river." The waterway, evaporated billions of
How to download songs from Spotify
Mashable / 1h
One of the benefits of Spotify Premium is that users can download their favorite songs, playlists, and podcasts for offline listening. If you're going on a long journey in an airplane or heading to an area with spotty internet, downloading song to use as a soundtrack will help you create a seamless listening experience. Though Spotify doesn't allow users to download individual songs from playlist
Samsung Galaxy Watch 6: Three things we want to see (and one we don't)
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 has consistently been one of our favourite Android smartwatches, taking the battle to Apple Watch with an excellent array of apps and more and more new features each time. It’s top of our list of the best smartwatches for Android users in terms of value and functionality. In our review of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 , we noted that it felt like the company had hit a little
NASA thinks space is teeming with planets that have gone rogue
Mashable / 1h
In elementary school, you might have learned what a planet is: big, round, and orbiting a star. But there’s another category of planets — one that probably eluded your teacher — that only partially meets that definition. Over the years, scientists have found worlds that appear to aimlessly wander space alone, called rogue planets. New NASA research conducted with Osaka University in Japan propose
Amazon's new Echo Pop is not a necessity in your smart home lineup
Mashable / 1h
The Echo Pop is one of Amazon’s newest Alexa devices. With a flat speaker on the front, it’s made to sit discreetly in the corner of a room and fill it up with music. Additionally, it shares many of the same Alexa features as Amazon’s other Echo devices. At $39.99, the Echo Pop is also the least expensive way to add Alexa to your home. As a bonus, it comes in a couple of unique colors that other
How Do the White House’s A.I. Commitments Stack Up?
NYT > Technology / 2h
Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they’ll do with their technology. Our columnist sizes up their potential impact.
A Mystery in the E.R.? Ask Dr. Chatbot for a Diagnosis.
21NYT > Technology / 2h
At a medical school in Boston, instructors are using ChatGPT in training exercises to help teach students how to think like doctors.
'Oppenheimer': Yes, there really was a nuclear reactor under a football field.
Mashable / 2h
For two years of my time as a student at the University of Chicago, my dorm building, my cafeteria, and the library where I worked all stood on the same block as the site of the world's first-ever manmade nuclear reactor. Upon first glance, you wouldn't really know just how much this stretch of land in Chicago's Hyde Park shaped the Atomic Age. Between the hustle and bustle of students, you might
Are 'Oppenheimer' and 'Dune' the same movie?
Mashable / 2h
I love Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer . I love Denis Villeneuve's Dune . In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that I love them both so much because they're the same movie. "But how can that be?" you may ask. "After all, Dune is a science-fiction epic. Oppenheimer is based on the real life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. What could they possibly have in common?" SEE ALSO: 'Oppenheimer' review
Stream under the stars with this outdoor movie bundle, now over $500 off
Mashable / 2h
TL;DR: As of July 22, get the Outdoor Movie Bundle: Wemax Go Portable Projector with 50-inch Portable Screen for only $249.97 (reg. $798.98) — a 68% discount. Ready to spice up your summer nights? Imagine relaxing under the stars, watching your favorite flicks with your family, hosting a blockbuster night with your pals, or binge-watching your go-to comfort show while camping. This outdoor movie
Learn ChatGPT with this training bundle for $30
Mashable / 2h
TL;DR: As of July 22, get the Complete ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Training Bundle for just $29.99 — you'll save 42%. It seems you can't read a newspaper or turn on the news without hearing about artificial intelligence . And one of the tools at the center of all this attention is ChatGPT . It's an AI chatbot tool developed by OpenAI that can help you do research, answer questions, and
Learn all about cybersecurity with this class bundle, now under $80
Mashable / 2h
TL;DR: As of July 22, get the Complete 2023 Cybersecurity Developer & IT Skills Bundle for only $79.99 (reg. $1,378.00) — that's 94% off. If you are looking to make a career jump into a growth industry, look no further than the world of cybersecurity. This is a complex field that's on the rise. And if you'd like to test the waters, this Cybersecurity Developer and IT Skills Bundle is an affordabl
Llama 2: What to know about Meta's ChatGPT competitor
Mashable / 2h
On Tuesday, Meta announced Llama 2 , a new version of its large language model. Lots of attention has been paid to LLMs like OpenAI's GPT-4 which powers ChatGPT and Google's PaLM 2 which powers Bard, but don't sleep on Meta's efforts to compete in the generative AI arena. Unlike GPT-4 and PaLM 2, which are closed models, Llama 2 is open-source (more on that below). It is already scoring similarly
Save 31% on a refurbished iPad Pro, on sale for under $180
Mashable / 2h
TL;DR: As of July 22, get this refurbished 2017 iPad Pro for only $170.99 (reg. $249.99) in the Mashable Shop — a 31% discount. If you've been thinking of getting a tablet, now is a good time. With travel season in full swing, you'll need a trustworthy device to take with you, whether on the road, rails, sea, or in the sky. This refurbished iPad Pro is worth considering , as it's on sale for just
So, how hot will Earth get?
Mashable / 2h
What do these events have in common? Twenty (and counting) straight days of temperatures exceeding 110 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizona. 126 F measured in China. 120 F at 1 a.m. in Death Valley, California. 109 F in Rome. They're all new temperature records. Yes, heat waves are normal. But continuously breaking, nearly breaking, or obliterating heat records isn't normal. Such historic and s
Doc Hammer reveals the 'Venture Bros.' scene he regrets losing
Mashable / 2h
When Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick were tasked with transforming their in-the-works eighth season of The Venture Bros. to a feature-length finale instead, brutal choices had to be made. In an interview with Mashable — conducted before the SAG/AFTRA strike — the creators of this early Adult Swim classic shared the difficulties and joys of being asked to kill your darlings. Among those darlings ki
ChatGPT's Android app arrives in the last week of July
Engadget / 3h
When OpenAI released a ChatGPT app for the iPhone in May, it promised that Android users will get theirs soon. Now, the company has announced that ChatGPT for Android is rolling out to users sometime next week. Moreover, its Google Play listing is already up, and users can pre-register to get it as soon as it becomes available. It's unclear if the app will initially only be available in the US li
Get 130 hours of Python training for under £20
Mashable / 7h
TL;DR: The 2023 Complete Python Certification Boot Camp Bundle is on sale for £15.46, saving you 76% on list price. If you're learning to code for the first time, Python may be the place to start. This user-friendly coding language has a wide array of applications, and there's even a low-cost way to start learning from real experts. The 2023 Complete Python Certification Bootcamp Bundle gives you
How to watch U.S. Prime Video for free
Mashable / 7h
SAVE 83%: Unblock U.S. Prime Video for free with ExpressVPN. A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £82.82 but comes with a generous money-back guarantee. Streaming sites only provide you with access to the shows and movies from your location's content library, and that includes Prime Video. That's annoying, but it does mean you could potentially unlock a massive bank of extra conte
How to watch the Netball World Cup 2023 for free
Mashable / 7h
The Netball World Cup is an international netball tournament that takes place once every four years. Inaugurated in 1963, the competition has been dominated by Australia and New Zealand, but that could all change this year. If you are interested in watching the Netball World Cup for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need. When is the Netball World Cup in 2023? The N
Disgruntled Investor Charged With Kidnapping "Crypto King"
Futurism / 8h
King's Ransom On Monday, the Toronto Police Service announced that it had arrested and charged four men for the December kidnapping of Aiden Pleterski, a 24-year-old self-described "Crypto King" who headed up a cryptocurrency investment business that quickly went bankrupt. The suspects are facing dozens of other related charges, including discharging a firearm, kidnapping for ransom, aggravated a
The Government Is Accusing SBF of Intentionally Leaking His Ex-Girlfriend’s Diary
Futurism / 8h
Dear Diary Somehow, the FTX drama continues. This time, the Department of Justice is accusing the exchange's ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of leaking excerpts from his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison's diary to the New York Times — less than a day after its contents were published by the paper. In a DOJ memorandum , US attorneys claimed that Bankman-Fried allegedly giving the NYT Ellison's diary entrie
Redditors Invented a Fake Word and an AI Site Published an Article Thinking It Was Real
Futurism / 8h
AI Copycat Leave it to Redditors to pick a petty but oh-so-sweet fight with an AI-written website, tricking it into making an idiotic error. Recently, dedicated perusers of the "World of Warcraft" subreddit realized that a shoddy gaming website called Zleague was ruthlessly scraping threads from the forum for content and regurgitating them in AI-generated news articles with little to no editing o
A Majority of Americans Don’t Care About Mars, Want NASA to Defend Against Killer Asteroids
Futurism / 8h
Defense Attorney While NASA's Mars ambitions keep getting more expensive , Americans are quietly deciding that their off-world priorities lie elsewhere. A newly-released Pew Research survey shows that while a majority of Americans are supportive of NASA in general, they're way less into the agency's dogged pursuit of research into possible life on Mars and are way more interested in protecting ou
Trillions of "Rogue Planets" Are Wandering Through Our Galaxy, Scientists Say
Futurism / 8h
Orphan Worlds Planets without a star, known as rogue planets, may vastly outnumber star-orbiting worlds in the Milky Way, according to a pair of studies set to be published in The Astronomical Journal . Sans a sun, these rogues waywardly drift through the cosmos without end, and may number in the trillions. "We estimate that our galaxy is home to 20 times more rogue planets than stars – trillions
Invincible Season 2 Finally Has a Release Date and New Trailer
Gizmodo / 9h
It’s been over two years since Mark Grayson fought his father in the season finale of Invincible season 1. In that time, fans have had one question above all others. When is season 2? Well, at San Diego Comic-Con, the team behind the incredible animated adaptation made it official. Invincible season 2 is coming on… Read more...
Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites
43Ars Technica - All content / 9h
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of Amazon's Kuiper satellite processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. (credit: Amazon ) Within a few years, Amazon hopes to be building and launching up to 80 satellites per month to populate the company's Kuiper constellation , a $10 billion network that is similar to fleets already operated by SpaceX and OneWeb providing Internet connectivity around th
Netflix's 'One Piece' trailer shows live-action Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates fighting fit
Mashable / 10h
The official trailer for Netflix's live-action One Piece series is here, giving fans a better peek at the new versions of their favourite characters in action. Based on the manga by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece follows the enthusiastic and supernaturally stretchy young pirate Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), who is on a self-imposed quest to find the titular fabled treasure and become king of the pirate
Wordle today: Here's the answer and hints for July 22
Mashable / 10h
It's Barbenheimer Saturday and in highly unrelated news, there's a brand new Wordle . As always, we're here with some tips and tricks to help you figure out the solution. If you just want to be told the answer, you can jump to the end of this article for July 22's Wordle solution revealed. But if you want to solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Where
One Piece's New Trailer Shows a Plethora of Pirates
Gizmodo / 10h
Netflix’s adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has been slowly teased out over the past year or so ahead of its release next month. After a grand reveal during the streamer’s Tudum event in June, a new trailer at San Diego Comic-Con was released that features a more expansive look at the show. Read more...
Behold the Throne of Photo Ops at the Jurassic Park SDCC Experience
Gizmodo / 11h
io9 ventured into Jurassic Park at the 30th anniversary experience for the Steven Spielberg classic at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 and got face to face with a T-Rex... while sitting on an iconic toilet. Read more...
What We Do in the Shadows’ Cast Reactions to Pride Episode | io9 Interview
Gizmodo / 11h
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Quordle today - hints and answers for Saturday, July 22 (game #544)
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's good fun, but also difficult. What's more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also
The Quest Pro series may be dead as Meta struggles to stay in the VR game
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Meta has reportedly decided to cancel all future work on Quest Pro VR headsets including suspending all “development on the second-generation Quest Pro”. According to a recent report by The Information , sources close to the situation claim that Meta told its suppliers “earlier this year it won’t order any new components for” its high-end headset. GoerTek, the Chinese electronics company who manu
Get a Peek at Magic: The Gathering's New Doctor Who Set
Gizmodo / 12h
Today, Wizards of the Coast has revealed the upcoming Doctor Who Universes Beyond Magic: The Gathering set at San Diego Comic-Con. The sneak peek includes eleven cards and shows off about twenty additional piece of art. The set will be released in October, but is currently available for preorder online at Amazon or at… Read more...
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Gets Its First Trailer
Gizmodo / 12h
Daryl Dixon has pretty much always been the most popular character on The Walking Dead . Sure people love Rick and Michonne. They loved to hate Negan and The Governor. But Daryl has always been that perfect balance.
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