AI is getting dangerously good at political persuasion

A research paper found that chatbots overall were 10 times more effective than TV ads and other media in changing someone’s ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
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Discord's new features let parents monitor teens without reading texts

Discord unveiled a major update to its Family Center to give parents more oversight of their teens’ activity without sacrificing privacy. Drone footage shows river breaking its banks in Washington ...
Engadget

Meta's smart glasses have a new shortcut to call and text without saying 'hey Meta'

One of the things that's long irked me about Meta's smart glasses is how often you have to say "hey Meta." Even though the company's AI assistant has gotten significantly more capable, there's ...
Forbes

Google Messages Could Finally Let You Recover Deleted Texts

Google Messages is testing a long-awaited trash folder feature, enabling users to easily recover accidentally deleted texts. This significant update, found in the latest beta, will eliminate the ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
ZDNet

Windows 11's Snipping Tool just got a Google Lens-like feature - here's how to use it

The Windows 11 Snipping Tool now has a visual search engine. You can learn more about the item you capture via a Bing search. You can also extract or translate text and even solve a math equation. The ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large ...
IEEE

Aligning Visual and Textual Features: A Dual-Flow Retrieval Framework with Semantic Enhancement

Image retrieval as a subtask of cross-modal image-text retrieval primarily involves using an example image and its corresponding modified text description as queries to search for the target image in ...
Android Police

YouTube’s biggest redesign in years brings sleek look and enhanced features

Timi is a news and deals writer who's been reporting on technology for over a decade. He loves breaking down complex subjects into easy-to-read pieces that keep you informed. But his recent passion ...
PC World

Microsoft warns these 2 features can slow down your Windows PC

In a new support document that offers “tips to improve PC performance in Windows,” Microsoft warns that two features in Windows 10 and Windows 11 can impair system performance. Older and/or weaker PCs ...
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BioWare veteran says "flying is Anthem's best feature" but also its "worst feature" because it broke the game, and reckons Monster Hunter is a great example of how to add ...

Anthem, BioWare's now-dead live-service game, got its fair share of flak at launch, but there's one thing pretty much everyone who's played it can agree on: the flying was awesome. Mark Darrah, a ...