OpenAI’s Operator saves deleted data months longer than ChatGPT

OpenAI’s Operator saves deleted data months longer than ChatGPT

Operator, OpenAI’s new AI agent, will save your deleted data for two months longer than deleted data from ChatGPT. OpenAI has some noteworthy privacy policies nestled in the fine print of Operator’s help page. One of which says that data from your Operator interactions — chats, browsing history, and screenshots — are kept in OpenAI’s … Read more

Windows 11 is getting colorful new battery icons that are easier to understand at a glance

Windows 11 is getting colorful new battery icons that are easier to understand at a glance

Microsoft is releasing a new Windows 11 Insider Preview Build today with some welcome improvements to the operating system’s battery icon – possibly sparing you the realization that you’ve chosen a dead outlet, or improperly plugged in your power adapter, or let your battery drain too much, before it’s far too late.  Windows’ battery icon, which … Read more

T-Mobile users can start trying out SpaceX’s satellite service next week

T-Mobile users can start trying out SpaceX’s satellite service next week

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR SpaceX will start beta testing its Direct-to-Cell service on January 27, 2025. The test is expected to run until July 26, 2025. Sign-ups to join the beta started last month. It’s been almost three years since SpaceX and T-Mobile announced a partnership that would bring satellite coverage to regular … Read more

Sony To End Blu-ray Media Production After 18 Years

Sony To End Blu-ray Media Production After 18 Years

Sony will cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs at its last factory in February, ending an 18-year manufacturing run amid declining demand for physical media. The Japanese electronics giant will also halt production of MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes. The company had already stopped making consumer recordable Blu-ray and optical disks in mid-2024, maintaining production only … Read more

Quantum Error Correction Update 2024 – O’Reilly

Quantum Error Correction Update 2024 – O’Reilly

Making quantum computers is really very difficult. The quantum bits, or qubits, are made up of superconducting circuits operating at thousands of a Kelvin above absolute zero, or individual atoms, or photons. Aside from the challenges of engineering at those extremes, there is the whole matter of the rest of the universe having a very … Read more

Unreleased Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Appear in FCC Filing

Unreleased Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Appear in FCC Filing

Sony could be close to launching the successor model to its popular WH-1000XM5 over-ear noise-canceling headphones, if a new FCC filing is anything to go by. The company’s WH-1000XM5 cans, which we compared to Apple’s AirPods Max back in May 2022, are considered by many to offer some of the best noise-canceling in the business, … Read more

A familiar Samsung app has been replaced on the Galaxy S25

A familiar Samsung app has been replaced on the Galaxy S25

After you’ve unwrapped and set up your new Galaxy S25, you may notice an app previously always installed on Samsung phones has disappeared. Samsung has stopped pre-installing its own Samsung Messages app, and handed cellular messaging duties solely over to Google. On the Galaxy S25, Google Messages is the only pre-installed, and therefore default, messaging … Read more