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The AI Assistant Wars Are Coming
John Herrman
Almost as soon as chatbots could carry on a coherent conversation, AI companies started imagining a world in which people use them to do everything. For some companies, such as Google, Apple, or Amaz ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
2 days ago
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I tried Readme, the new dating app for book lovers
Isabel Bekele
Imagine this: youre at a bookstore, and Norah Jones, or maybe The Cranberries, is playing softly in the background. You stand on your tippy-toes and stretch for a book, only for your hand to brush ag ...[Continue Reading]
Dazed
1 day ago
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Min Jin Lee Will Order Everything on the Menu
Ben Widdicombe
I publish a new novel once a decade, and now, I will have published three, says author Min Jin Lee, whose book American Hagwonwill be released next week. Lee lives in Harlem with her husband, Christo ...[Continue Reading]
Grub Street
1 day ago
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I stopped paying for these AI features once I realized my laptop could run them locally
Mahnoor Faisal
The first time I tried to run a LLM locally, I wasn't really impressed. Granted that I was running it on a poor MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM that was holding on for dear life, the gap between the loca ...[Continue Reading]
XDA Developers
1 day ago
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5 features Google Messages needs to fill the void Samsung Messages left
Pankil Shah
It's been a couple of months since the support for Samsung Messages officially ended. And as someone who used it for years before being forced to switch to Google Messages, there are still things I m ...[Continue Reading]
MakeUseOf
1 day ago
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
James LaPorta
Washington The U.S. Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the military's Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel and other support units within the next four months, accor ...[Continue Reading]
CBS News
1 day ago