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Nest Cams are getting these new features on Google Home for web
Google has announced that in the next few days, Nest Cam users will finally be able to view and download recorded clips and scroll through their event timeline on its new home.google.com web portal. While you’ve been able to view livestreams from here, if you want to see what happened earlier, you need to go to the Google […]
Outdated Credit Card Rewards Annoy Gen Z
Credit card providers that haven’t refreshed their rewards program risk losing customers, warns a study of 3,233 U.S. consumers conducted by PYMNTS and i2c, a payments processing company. Travel is one of the most popular rewards for credit cards. getty While reward points are broadly popular — who doesn’t like free rewards? — consumers want […]
The child influencers making other people rich.
The child influencers making other people rich. Kids are big business for brands looking to partner with influencers — and yet, Illinois is the only state in the US where kids appearing in sponcon are entitled to a cut of earnings. This Cosmopolitan piece illustrates the longterm psychological effects of being a child working on […]
Watch This Humanoid Robot Talk and Complete Tasks Thanks to OpenAI Tech
The startup Figure shows off how its partnership with OpenAI promises to make the company’s humanoid robots capable of having full conversations with people.
The “new” Threads desktop app is available for Windows PCs.
The “new” Threads desktop app is available for Windows PCs. Yes, Windows users can get the Threads app Mark Zuckerberg is showing here from the Microsoft Store But once it’s installed, you’ll get the same desktop web app experience (loaded in Microsoft’s Edge web browser) that we’ve had access to since August.
2024 Is An Inflection Point For IT Services
2024 Is an Inflection Point for IT Services getty We are now in the digital world with operational platforms. In the platform world, looking for stability in processes no longer works because platforms collapse business processes to align with improving the user experience and objectives and key results (OKRs), thus creating new value. Consequently, in […]
Europe Passes AI Act to Ban Riskiest Tools, Force Copyright Compliance
The legislation will require AI firms to notify customers if they’re speaking with an AI and bans AI from using human biometric data in most cases, among other rules.
U.K. Doubles Down On Fossil Gas Power. 10 Experts Deliver Verdicts
U.K. Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Claire Coutinho, during a Q&A session … [+] after her keynote speech at the Energy Transitions Conference at Chatham House in London on Tuesday March 12, 2024. PA Images via Getty Images The U.K. government has announced what it calls a “commonsense decision” to extend […]
House approves TikTok bill that would force sale or effective ban
Here’s why TikTok will be banned on government-issued devices This is why government officials are concerned about TikTok and its possible implications for national security. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The House approved a bill Wednesday that would force TikTok’s parent company to sell the popular social media app or face a practical […]
House passes bill that could ban TikTok
Banning TikTok in the US is back on the table after the House voted Wednesday to pass a measure that would do just that unless the app separates from Chinese parent company ByteDance. The bill passed with 352 votes, needing a two-thirds majority to advance. Sixty-five members voted against it, with one voting present. The House […]