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If you’re one of those people who loathes looking at a blank screen or piece of paper and would benefit from a super-smart assist to break your writers’ block, AI is custom-made for you. Actually, AI is becoming more powerful and useful every day, and a reliable AI app can quickly become an everyday tool. … Read more

For our full take on what to look for in a laptop, see our guide Choosing the Right Laptop. The condensed version (even if your budget is limited) is to try to get at least an Intel i5 processor and at least 8 GB of RAM. 16 GB is even better. Recent versions of Windows … Read more

The Bene Gesserit are embroiled in an Imperium-wide conflict in the latest trailer for Dune: Prophecy. SEE ALSO: 40 shows we can’t wait to see this fall Taking place over 10,000 years before the events of Dune, Dune: Prophecy dives into the early days of the Bene Gesserit order. Here, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen … Read more

The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and, increasingly, rival, Microsoft, reporting their five-year romance has cooled owing to financial pressure on OpenAI, the limited computing power Microsoft is providing OpenAI, and disagreements between the two about ground rules. Most fascinating perhaps is … Read more

TL;DR Samsung will reportedly only use Snapdragon chips in its Galaxy S25 phones. This follows a leaker’s claim that the Galaxy S25 would only use Snapdragon silicon too. The Samsung Galaxy S25 series is expected to launch in January 2025, and there are conflicting rumors about the choice of chipset. Now, a website has claimed … Read more

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple today reminded developers that the EU trader requirement in the European Union is now being enforced. Developers who distribute apps in the EU will now need to share information that includes address, phone number, and email address on the EU App Store. Submitting updates for apps … Read more

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a final “click to cancel” rule that aims to simplify the process of ending subscriptions and memberships for US consumers. The new rule will require businesses to make cancellation processes as straightforward as sign-up procedures, and companies will be prohibited from forcing customers to use chatbots or speak … Read more

Sam Hill / Digital Trends Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a … Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google will soon offer a paid version of its AI research tool NotebookLM, specifically targeting businesses.  NotebookLM Business will have “enhanced features for businesses, universities, and organizations.” For now, access to NotebookLM Business is through a … Read more

uniquepixel/Getty Images NotebookLM, Google’s experimental AI-first notebook and research assistant, has gone viral for its Audio Overview feature, which transforms a user’s material into a podcast. The feature just got an upgrade to fine-tune the experience, and I put it to the test.  The new features allow users to quickly instruct the two AI podcast … Read more