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Alexa+ can now swear, thanks to a new personality style
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Alexa+ can now swear, thanks to a new personality style

Amazon just unveiled a new personality type for Alexa+. The "sassy" option is reserved for adults and the company claims it will throw out censored curse words...

BallotGuessr is Geoguessr for budding political pundits
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BallotGuessr is Geoguessr for budding political pundits

Fancy yourself as one of those folks who stands in front of an expensive touchscreen display on a news network on election night, zooming in and out of counties...

Gemini’s task automation is here and it’s wild
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Gemini’s task automation is here and it’s wild

A couple of weeks ago, Google and Samsung announced a big Gemini development coming to their newest devices: task automation. Starting with food delivery and ri...

Ukraine allows allies to train AI models on its battlefield data
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Ukraine allows allies to train AI models on its battlefield data

Ukraine's four-year war with Russia has made it the world leader in battlefield drone technology. One byproduct of that is that the data it collects has become...

Google’s TV Streamer 4K doubles as a smart home hub and it’s on sale
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Google’s TV Streamer 4K doubles as a smart home hub and it’s on sale

Between March Madness and the Oscars, now might be a good time to improve your TV setup. Google’s TV Streamer 4K is currently on sale for $79.99 ($20 off) at Am...

Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan returns with a Western survival shooter
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Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan returns with a Western survival shooter

After spending many years as the public face of Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan stayed well out of the limelight after leaving Blizzard in 2021. Five years later, the fo...

Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
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Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now

Anthropic's latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude...

Claude can now generate charts and diagrams
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Claude can now generate charts and diagrams

With Claude enjoying a moment of newfound popularity among regular people, Anthropic is previewing an update designed to make its chatbot better at explaining s...

Honda cancels three EVs that were months away from US production
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Honda cancels three EVs that were months away from US production

Honda has announced it is canceling three electric vehicles it was months from starting production on at its EV Hub in Ohio. The Honda 0 SUV, the Honda 0 sedan...

Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reports
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Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reports

Flash floods are notoriously difficult to predict, but Google might have a novel solution. The company just revealed Groundsource, a prediction tool for flash f...

Meta exec hopes VR teens will stick around
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Meta exec hopes VR teens will stick around

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a w...

Microsoft's Copilot Health can use AI to turn your fitness data and medical records 'into a coherent story'
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Microsoft's Copilot Health can use AI to turn your fitness data and medical records 'into a coherent story'

Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool it claims can help make sense of your medical records, health history and fitness data from wearables,...

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