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Wendy’s To Begin Replacing Drive-Thru Staff With AI Chatbots
Verbal AI tech has advanced in leaps and bounds — not that you’d know it trying to talk to my Google Home, mind you — and the two companies have worked together to train up a system called FreshAI. This model understands the entire menu, including the street slang for certain orders, and it’s capable of having conversations — within a set of “guardrails” — as well as taking custom orders and answering questions. It integrates with the company’s point of sale systems and has been trained to follow the rules the company currently gives to its human drive thru window staff. Wendy’s will begin with a pilot program at a site in the Columbus, Ohio, area next month, expecting that some customers won’t realize they’re not talking to a human. From there, the company hopes to expand to include other drive-thru locations.
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Google is replacing Chrome’s lock icon because most people don’t know what it means
Do you know what the lock icon in your web browser means? If not, you’re far from alone. Google now plans to replace the lock next to the address in Chrome with a variant of the “tune” icon you see below. Simply put, most people don’t understand it. According to Google’s research, only 11 percent of users realize that it refers to HTTPS encryption. Many others think it means the site is trustworthy — a problem when even phishing sites use the technology.
The tune icon doesn’t imply trustworthiness, Google says. Instead, it signals that security is the default state. It also invites a click, making it more likely that you’ll use site controls. Many people never even realized they could click the lock, according to the company.
Most users will see the replacement icon in Chrome 117 on Android and desktop, which is scheduled to arrive early in September. As you can’t tap the icon in Chrome for iOS, Google is pulling the icon entirely on Apple’s mobile platforms. If you just can’t wait, you can see the icon now in Chrome Canary if you enable the Chrome Refresh 2023 flag.
The change is overdue in some respects. Google defaulted to HTTPS web connections in Chrome 90 two years ago, and that came months after Mozilla made a similar change in Firefox. Over 95 percent of page loads in Chrome for Windows use HTTPS, the company adds. Much like the floppy disk icon sometimes used to represent file saves, the lock is a relic from another era.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/google-is-replacing-chromes-lock-icon-because-most-people-dont-know-what-it-means-194503194.html?src=rss
Google is replacing Chrome’s lock icon because it’s not an indicator of website safety
Ubisoft Introduces AI Ghostwriter Tool, ‘Isn’t Replacing the Video Game Writer’
The best cheap QLED TVs for replacing your old dull TV on a budget
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Streaming services have become a strong enough cultural staple that we’ve built the monthly fees into our bills alongside rent and electricity. But if you haven’t bought a new TV in a while, your screen probably isn’t doing that precious content justice.
QLED TVs offer an improvement in the brightness and color department that you’ll quickly notice the first time you re-watch Encanto or The Grand Budapest Hotel. Their skyrocketing prevalence in the TV market has brought the cost of the technology down significantly, making a QLED TV an actually-affordable purchase if you want to cushion your streaming service spending.
You have several options in several sizes ranging from $500 to $1,000. Before we get into what makes them a bang for your buck, it’s kind of helpful to understand QLED actually even means in the first place.
Which is better: QLED and OLED?
QLED can be thought of as an LED glow up while OLED is a completely separate method of lighting. The tech you’ll like the best depends on the type of content and lighting of the room in which you’ll be using the TV the most.
Another frequently-asked question, whether 4K or QLED is better, isn’t a question at all. The two aren’t mutually exclusive — in fact, nearly every QLED TV is 4K (with some 8K options sprinkled in, but that’s beside the point). While any rendition of -LED refers to the light source behind the TV, 4K refers to the screen’s resolution, or how many pixels are squeezed across the screen horizontally (4,000-ish).
Still iffy about -LED terminology? Let’s break it down.
LED is the standard in most TVs. Despite their general affordability across the board, one LED TV can beat another out by incorporating full-array local dimming: a collection of lighting zones that adjust independently across the entire screen. Without those crucial in-between zones, the middle of the screen of many cheaper LED TVs can get a little hazy, falling victim to edge-lit dimming that just can’t extend light across with the same oomph.
QLED is a luminous spin on traditional LED (light-emitting diode), which has been the baseline backlight system in most budget TVs for years now. The “Q” refers to the an extra layer of quantum dots sandwiched between the standard LED panel and the screen to make a wider range of colors pop off the screen with enhanced brightness. The juicier picture is ideal for viewing or gaming in bright rooms and for honing in on content with small details, like sports.
Not every brand refers to their quantum dot TVs as QLED. While Samsung and TCL refer to QLED as QLED, brands like LG, Sony and Hisense use similar technology marketed under different names (QNED, Triluminos Pro, and ULED, respectively).
Mini LEDs have also entered the chat in recent years. These are about half the size of regular LEDs, allow manufacturers to pack more LEDs into the same size panel, allowing for more local dimming zones and more precise tweaking of brightness in each area.
OLED uses a whole different score sheet despite that negligible difference in the title letters itself. Unlike LED and QLED, OLED doesn’t require an external backlight. That’s because the pixels — the organic light-emitting diodes that represent the “O” in OLED — emit their own light instead. This comes in handy during dark scenes, when the TV screen needs to get as dark as possible to differentiate shadowy shades from each other. While backlit QLED pixels’ forced dimming can cause a kind of halo effect around bright objects, OLED pixels can turn off completely. This makes OLED the gold standard for the stark contrast and black uniformity needed for viewing or gaming in dark rooms.
Because OLED technology is in a league of its own, OLED is also in a price range of its own, and is the least likely type of TV to have a budget-friendly counterpart.
If you’ve decided that QLED is the way you want to go, here are your best options for upgrading to QLED on a budget:
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Survey Claims Some Companies are Already Replacing Workers With ChatGPT
Earlier this month, job advice platform Resumebuilder.com surveyed 1,000 business leaders who either use or plan to use ChatGPT. It found that nearly half of their companies have implemented the chatbot. And roughly half of this cohort say ChatGPT has already replaced workers at their companies….
Business leaders already using ChatGPT told ResumeBuilders.com their companies already use ChatGPT for a variety of reasons, including 66% for writing code, 58% for copywriting and content creation, 57% for customer support, and 52% for meeting summaries and other documents. In the hiring process, 77% of companies using ChatGPT say they use it to help write job descriptions, 66% to draft interview requisitions, and 65% to respond to applications.
Overall, most business leaders are impressed by ChatGPT’s work,” ResumeBuilder.com wrote in a news release. “Fifty-five percent say the quality of work produced by ChatGPT is ‘excellent,’ while 34% say it’s ‘very good….'” Nearly all of the companies using ChatGPT said they’ve saved money using the tool, with 48% saying they’ve saved more than $50,000 and 11% saying they’ve saved more than $100,000….
Of the companies ResumeBuilder.com identified as businesses using the chatbot, 93% say they plan to expand their use of ChatGPT, and 90% of executives say ChatGPT experience is beneficial for job seekers — if it hasn’t already replaced their jobs.
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Players are replacing their Hogwarts wands with with guns, Luigi Wiimotes, and asparagus
Usage-based pricing is rising, but not replacing other models
Today we’re unpacking OpenView’s second State of Usage-Based Pricing report.
Usage-based pricing is rising, but not replacing other models by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch