Chinese internet technology company ByteDance, which is known for developing TikTok, has reportedly been using UK news sites to train its ChatGPT competitor called ByteSpider without paying these websites or acquiring proper permission from them. ByteDance has been accused of operating a bot that has been targeting renowned publishers such as The Guardian, Daily Mail … Read more
Google has announced Google AI Studio in a bid to be at the forefront of the AI space. Here’s how developers can leverage its capabilities. Last week, Google unveiled its most capable AI model to date dubbed Gemini in a bid to make artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible and useful for people around the world. … Read more
ANDROID users with older phones will no longer receive updates for Google Chrome and the Calendar app. The pair are dropping support for a raft of Android devices, according to 9to5Google, which means the apps may begin to stop working properly for millions of users. 1 The current version of Chrome for Android is version … Read more
GOOGLE Messages is finally giving Android owners the WhatsApp treatment in letting users send Ultra HDR images in messages. The Android native messenger has been undergoing a bit of a revamp this year. 1 Meta-owned WhatsApp introduced the same feature to its 2billion users earlier this yearCredit: Alamy Just last week, the messenger was rumoured … Read more
There are plenty of reasons to have a remote control for your computer. Maybe you need a way to access your files from outside your home, or you use a “headless” system without a monitor. Or maybe you just don’t want to get up to turn on your HTPC and would rather your phone did all … Read more
THE bonuses just keep coming for Samsung devices – with a looming update rumoured to offer generative AI wallpapers. Samsung recently rolled out a sparkly new operating system under the title One UI 6.0 – also known as Android 14 for Google Pixel owners. 2 Generative AI is an artificial intelligence model that can generate high quality … Read more
There are a lot of different ways to store files online or share them with others. Services like Google Drive and Dropbox are both popular choices that are also convenient for easily sharing large files you couldn’t fit into an email. If you’re wondering which is better, there’s no reason to guess. We’ve already compared … Read more
Canadian print media will receive most of an annual payment from Google to the country’s news outlets AFP Canada’s print media will receive nearly two-thirds of an annual Can$100 million (US$75 million) payment from Google to the country’s news outlets in exchange for distribution of their content, the federal government announced Friday. At the end … Read more
A GOOGLE leak has revealed a major Android upgrade that could prove to be a serious rival for Apple’s Siri. The US tech firm has unveiled Gemini, its newest LLM (large language model) to take on AI tasks. 2 A high tec AI assistant called Pixie could be coming to Google phones (stock image) A … Read more
BUILT FOR ART: For the first time, Creator Labs, the arts incubator that nurtures artists with their personal work, will feature talents who are based outside of the U.S. Among the new participants are Campbell Addy, Gabriel Moses, Justin French and Furmaan Ahmed — all of whom are U.K.-based. Now in its eighth season, the program was … Read more
