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Curious about my actual tech tool kit? I’m sharing the apps and tools that powered me through a recent morning—from wake-up alarm to lunchtime break. This builds on my recent
Often lost in the generally breathless coverage of generative AI, ChatGPT sports a few genuinely useful features that aren’t quite so obvious.
These options don’t get splashy demos or make the headlines, but instead quietly make your life as a gen-AI user a bit easier.
Let’s take a quick look at some of ChatGPT’s unsung heroes.
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Technology can seem pretty mysterious at times, so it’s all too easy for misconceptions to spread.
That helps explain why I keep seeing technological myths propagate. Should you bury a wet phone in rice? Do you need a VPN to use public Wi-Fi networks? Is your phone secretly recording your conversations? The answer to these questions and more is no, but believing otherwise can be detrimental.
Here’s my attempt to dispel a half dozen popular tech myths, and what you should
Whether weather is always on your radar or merely a passing front of occasional interest, having an on-demand eye on the world around you is one of the most powerful slices of sorcery you can set your sights on today.
And this week, I want to introduce you to a worthwhile new weather app I recently encountered that’s decidedly different from the others. It isn’t meant to replace whatever weather app you’re already using, whether that’s the one that came preinstalled on you
The biggest technology game changers don’t always grab the biggest headlines. Two emerging AI developments may not go viral on TikTok or YouTube, but they represent an inflection point that could radically accelerate the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). That’s AI that can function and learn like us.
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The U.S. House of Representatives’ Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Catherine Szpindor, informed congressional staffers this week that WhatsApp is now banned from government phones. The move came after the CAO’s Office of Cybersecurity deemed the Meta-owned app to be “high-risk to users”—a claim that WhatsApp quickly rebutted.
But the CAO is correct. While WhatsApp is one of the more secure messaging apps out there, it does have some pri
Justice for Tiny Chef.
A now-viral clip of the stop-motion animated star of The Tiny Chef Show getting laid off directly by the execs at “Mickelflodeon” has tugged at the heartstrings of the internet.
In a ">YouTube short posted earlier this week, now with 365,000 views, the tiny green chef (Cheffy, as he’s known to friends) is minding his business, dusting his room, when he gets a call deliverin
Dating app Bumble continues to lose its footing. After subpar earnings, sluggish user growth, and internal stagnation, the company has laid off 30% of its staff. Meanwhile, its dating app competitor Grindr is soaring.
Among dating apps, Match Group’s properties—mostly Hinge
Apple has revamped its app store policies in the European Union with hopes of fending off escalating fines under the 27-nation bloc’s
“An opportunity to choose chance.”
That’s what social platform startup 222 claims to offer its members. It isn’t a dating app—there’s no swiping, and, more notably, there’s no actual choosing of who you might be meeting.
Instead, an AI-driven algorithm does it for you.
“We wanted people to be out and meeting each other. It was [based] on this whole idea of the death of third places, and that people aren’t just running into each o