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A Snap-based, containerized Ubuntu desktop could be offered in 2024var abtest_1943105 = new ABTest(1943105, 'click');
Ubuntu Core has existed since 2014, providing a fully containerized, immutable Linux distribution aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing applications.That kind of system, based on Ubuntu...
Italy to launch EUR150M fund for AI startups
Italy is the latest country looking to quickly shore up domestic development of an AI ecosystem. As part of its Strategic Program for Artificial Intelligence, the government will "soon" launch a EUR15...
Google modifies shopping ads policies to enhance transparency
Google has updated its Shopping ads Policy Center and free listings Policy Center to improve transparency for advertisers and retailers. These updates provide clearer information about how Google enfo...
Report: The Pixel Watch 2 dumps Samsung Exynos SoCs for Qualcomm
The first Pixel Watch represented a promising but first-generation-feeling return to the smartwatch market for Google--will a second-generation version do any better? 9to5Google reports it will at lea...
The original Chromecast hits end of life after a decade of service
Rest now, little Chromecast. Google has announced the decade-old Chromecast 1 is finally hitting end of life. A message on Google's Chromecast firmware support page (first spotted by 9to5Google) annou...
How to deal with an egotistical CEO
Here's the thing, it doesn't take long for an outsized ego to manifest itself in the workplace.Everything is self-referential. Any topic leads back to wonderful them.One of my clients was offered a jo...
Diversifying your B2B paid media portfolio: When does it make sense?
Today's economic headwinds make it more tempting to test new ad platforms, explore "shiny" new products and revise your original B2B marketing strategy.For risk-averse or conservative marketers, tryin...
Across the Spider-Verse is an animated masterpiece that upends Marvel's Spider-canon
The concepts of multiverses and people traveling from one reality to another existed long before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. But the 2018 animated feature did such a tremendous job of using tho...
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is coming to PC--and it will be a technical showstopper
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be the next PlayStation Studios game to make its way to PC, Sony announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The game, which debuted in 2021, will launch on the new platform ...
AI-expanded album cover artworks go viral thanks to Photoshop's Generative Fill
Over the weekend, AI-powered makeovers of famous music album covers went viral on Twitter thanks to Adobe Photoshop's Generative Fill, an image synthesis tool that debuted in a beta version of the ima...
The solid legal theory behind Nintendo's new emulator takedown effort
When it comes to emulation, Nintendo has a long history of going after the websites that distribute copyrighted game ROMs and some of the modders that make piracy-enabling hardware. But Nintendo's leg...
Street Fighter 6 is worth it for the brilliant new campaign alone
It's been clear to me over the last week or so that my hands are just too old for fighting games. Contorting my fingers into a claw to pull off a special move or combo has been a painful reminder of m...
Webinar: How to build consumer trust in a cookieless world
[photo1]Building consumer trust is crucial for marketers. But how is that trust built in a future without cookies?This webinar will explore how brands can use choice, control, and transparency to crea...
Bing Chat gains Android home widget and improved sports scores
Microsoft released a number of improvements to Bing Chat, including an Android home widget, improved sports scores and other updates for SwiftKey, the company announced. This is in addition to the oth...
UK startup taps ChatGPT to launch AI playlist generator
A UK startup has tapped ChatGPT to build a text-to-music playlist generator.The AI system is the brainchild of Uppbeat, an audio platform based in Leeds. Targeting content creators, the feature finds ...
OpenAI execs warn of "risk of extinction" from artificial intelligence in new open letter
On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement signed by executives from OpenAI and DeepMind, Turing Award winners, and other AI researchers warning that their life's...
Google Search Console shows the wrong mobile indexing status for some sites
About a week ago, Google did its last batch of moving sites to mobile-first indexing and some mobile-friendly sites were still noticing their sites were being reported as being crawled using desktop i...
It's prison day for Elizabeth Holmes; 11-year sentence has begun in Texas
Disgraced biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes has arrived at a federal prison in Texas to begin her 11-year, three-month sentence for defrauding investors of her defunct blood-testing startup, Thera...
Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it "unprecedented"
A lawyer is in trouble after admitting he used ChatGPT to help write court filings that cited six nonexistent cases invented by the artificial intelligence tool.Lawyer Steven Schwartz of the firm Levi...