Google launches Bard GenAI in Canada, rebrands it to Gemini
Google today announced that its generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbot, Bard, is now available to Canadians, in both English and French. At the same time, it announced that Bard has been renamed Gemini. Sissie Hsiao, vice president and general manager, Gemini experiences and Google Assistant, explained the name change: “Our
Read moreFCC officially declares AI-voiced robocalls illegal
The FCC’s war on robocalls has gained a new weapon in its arsenal with the declaration of AI-generated voices as “artificial” and therefore by definitely against the law when used in automated calling scams. It may not stop the flood of fake Joe Bidens that will almost certainly trouble our
Read moreA fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store
A fake app that was masquerading as password manager LastPass on the App Store has been removed, whether by Apple or the fake app’s developer is yet unclear — Apple has not commented. The illegitimate app was listed under an individual developer’s name (Parvati Patel) and copied LastPass’s branding and
Read moreOpenSea takes the long view by focusing on its UX even as NFT sales remain low
The NFT space has lost a lot of its sparkle over the past few years, but that hasn’t stopped some founders, investors and projects from trucking along in hopes of another surge. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreDo comments in a LaTeX file change the output?
When you add a comment to a LaTeX file, it makes no visible change to the output. The comment is ignored as far as the appearance of the file. But is that comment somehow included in the file anyway? If you compile a LaTeX file to PDF, then edit it
Read moreThe Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, the best noise-canceling pair we’ve tested, are at their lowest price
You can use the $50 to add the wireless charging functionality these earbuds should have shipped with. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge There are no better earbuds for muting the world than the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, which remain our pick for the best noise-canceling earbuds. While
Read moreYour PDF may reveal more than you intend
When you create a PDF file, what you see is not all you get. There is metadata embedded in the file that might be useful. It also might reveal information you’d rather not reveal. The previous post looked at just the time stamp on a file. This post will look
Read morePayPal suggests it will be ready to offer ‘offline’ payments when DMA goes into effect
PayPal is working on a new consumer app for its mobile customers, and suggested that it will be “ready” to take advantage of the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), when it goes into effect next month for tech “gatekeepers,” like Apple. For PayPal, one of the significant
Read moreUpstash’s serverless data platform hits ARR of $1M just two years after seed funding
Upstash announced a $1.9 million seed round almost exactly two years ago, and an idea for building a serverless data platform for data-intensive applications built with Redis and Kafka. That doesn’t feel like that long ago, but a lot has changed in the data landscape since then. Fast-forward to now
Read moreMeta may not bring some products to Canada unless proposed AI law changed, Parliament told
Officials from four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta — largely offered polite criticism of the country’s proposed artificial intelligence law to Canadian parliamentarians for over an hour at a hearing Wednesday. Several agreed the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) legislation
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