Entering the home market for the first time can feel complicated and stressful. With changing rules, financial requirements, and shifting property values, making sense of housing choices often means spending hours sorting through listings, comparing programs, and coordinating different people. A group of new Canadian apps aims to help first-time homebuyers with these common problems,…
Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passkeys, which are considered more secure. And because we should be using different ones for each device and/or app, the best way to track all of them is…
Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app. “Why do I have to go the PC settings to forget a network and Control panel to…
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project’s leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to the automaker’s efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for…
HOUSTON – A new law passed by the Texas Legislature bans the use of cell phones and other personal communication devices in public schools during the school day. The law, which took effect last month, requires all school districts to adopt policies that restrict or prohibit the use of devices such as cell phones, tablets…
President Donald Trump has called for Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign as Intel’s CEO over his reported ties to Chinese tech firms. The demand follows Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioning Intel’s board chairman whether Tan’s alleged connections to China would conflict with security regulations. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately,”…
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Tea and Flo are both still operating and available in major app stores. It’s a good reminder how often we turn over sensitive information to our apps and what little recourse we have when things go wrong. Online…
Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok got a “spicy” upgrade that reportedly spits out explicit deepfake videos, including a clip of Taylor Swift dancing topless, according to a report. Grok Imagine, the startup’s new generative AI tool launched Monday, created a six-second clip of the “Shake It Off” singer whipping off a silver dress to reveal…
The dating app Tinder is shown on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/Illustration/File Photo LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Investors’ love for dating apps is under strain. Dissatisfied younger users are hitting the revenues of companies like Tinder owner Match Group (MTCH.O), opens new tab. But some…
Elon Musk will bring back the defunct short-video platform Vine — only this time with an artificial intelligence twist that could transform how users create and share content online. The tech billionaire revealed Monday that his social media company X, formerly Twitter, found the full library of the six-second video app. “We recently found the…