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Source: The Verge As winter descended on San Francisco in late 2022, OpenAI quietly pushed a new service dubbed ChatGPT live with a blog post and a single tweet from CEO Sam Altman. The team labeled it a “low-key research preview” — they had good reason to set expectations low. “It couldn’t even do arithmetic,”…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25786757/Voicemod_Key_hed.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Voicemod launches its voice-changing dongle for Xbox and PlayStation")
Source: The Verge Voicemod has released a hardware solution that enables its popular soundboard and voice-changing desktop software to work on Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch consoles. The Voicemod Key dongle is now available in the US after initially being teased in July, with Voicemod planning to launch it in additional countries “soon.” Universal voice…
Source: Venture Beat Pin emerges from stealth with $3M funding to transform AI-powered recruitment, achieving 70% candidate match rates and reducing hiring time from 60 days to two weeks through proprietary machine learning models. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Epic Games and Telefonica are partnering to bring the Epic Games Store to the mobile provider’s new devices. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25047547/236883_Epic_Vs_Google_B_CVirginia.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Epic’s dream is starting to come true — its store will be preinstalled on ‘millions’ of Android phones")
Source: The Verge Telefónica, one of the largest carriers in the world serving the UK, Spain, Germany, and Latin America with the O2 and Movistar networks, will begin preinstalling the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android phone it sells — including Samsung phones. It’s part of a “long term partnership” to bring the…
Source: Venture Beat Voicemod announced its new hardware dongle, Key, which allows console gamers to modify their voices and use sound effects in-game. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24062776/STK138_Stream_Kradtke_01.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Steam is adding a new default option for game updates")
Source: The Verge Valve is testing an option in the new Steam client beta that will force games by default to only download updates when you launch them. Currently, Steam by default decides what game updates to download based on a few different things. As explained by Valve: For games you recently played, Steam will…
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Source: The Verge MakerHawk Type-C USB Tester Voltmeter If you’ve ever wondered whether the USB-C cables or devices you’re using are delivering the power they promise, you’ll want a voltmeter. MakerHawk offers comprehensive insight into metrics like voltage, current, and power capacity, allowing you to suss out whether that impossibly cheap cable and adapter combo…
Source: Venture Beat Apple and OpenAI are partnering to bring ChatGPT to iPhone, transforming Siri, camera and productivity features in iOS 18.2. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures by storing carbon in the frozen ground. Wildfires have changed that, according to the latest Arctic Report Card released yesterday at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos…
