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Google ups Chromebook privacy with new camera and mic switch
Google is adding new systemwide camera and microphone access toggles in ChromeOS settings that can instantly block all apps and sites from being able to use them.
The new systemwide privacy controls cut off the rest of the computer’s access to the hardware, which, for all intents and purposes, is a software replacement to the physical camera and mic kill switch one can find on various PC laptops.
But instead of adding hardware switches that cut power to the camera, like on Framework’s Chromebook or even a simple plastic sliding gate that obscures the lens, Chromebook manufacturers can simplify the laptop design and use the built-in ChromeOS solution instead. Of course, there’s nothing more secure than a full-on severance of power to the…
What to expect when United Parcel Service (UPS) reports Q1 earnings next week
Shares of United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) were down slightly on Thursday. The stock has gained 12% year-to-date. The logistics company is scheduled to report its first quarter 2023 […]
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Amazon Now Charging a Fee For Some UPS Store Returns
“We always offer a free option for customers to return their item,” Amazon spokesperson Steve Kelly told Insider by email. “If a customer would prefer to return their item at a UPS Store when there is a free option closer to their delivery address, a very small amount of customers may incur a $1 fee.”
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Reese Witherspoon’s ups and downs during her marriage to Jim Toth
Disco Elysium ups its screenshot game with new collage mode
Despite lawsuits and other messy goings-on at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM recently, things are starting to look a little sunnier for this troubled RPG maker. Three of its lawsuits with former employees have been resolved this week, and today marks the arrival of a new mode in the game called Collage Mode, a daft and very entertaining screenshotting and diorama tool that lets you arrange Revachol’s many, many inhabitants in all sorts of weird scenes, poses and sizes. And yes, that is a giant Kim and Kuno up top there tormenting your tiny detective protagonist. What of it?
10 years of Warframe | The ups, the downs… and what to expect in the next 5 years of ‘mapped out’ content
In 2013, Digital Extremes took a gamble. Its prior game, Dark Sector, didn’t do as well as the studio would have hoped, so it took what assets and designs it still had squirrelled away and released Warframe in the hops of finding salvation in a then-youthful, free-to-play market. A decade later, it turns out… that was all quite a good idea.
It’s been a hell of a ride for the sci-fi action grind-athon. The game – quick to jump on trends and shift with the turbulent environment the studio found itself gliding through – has managed to soar through several drastic changes to the industry, and escaped the live service no man’s land with a faithful playerbase, a unique spread of content among its peers in the MMO space, and (of course), a Harrow chassis.
As we inch towards the 10th anniversary of Warframe, I wanted to ask creative director Rebecca Ford if she could sneak me a Wolf Sledge Motor. But, instead, we talked about the game’s past, its future, and where the game stands in the eyes of the industry a decade after its conception.
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Google ups the AI ante with investment in ChatGPT rival Anthropic
Google has ramped up efforts to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT by investing in a rival generative AI startup.
Per Financial Times, Google confirmed it had invested over $300 million for a 10 percent stake in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company that was founded by former employees of OpenAI. Google and Anthropic declined to provide details about the investment, but in a separate statement, Anthropic announced a partnership with Google Cloud to scale its AI computing systems.
OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has swiftly taken over the generative AI conversation. Since the new application was released in December, it has been used by Tinder users to message matches, by students to write (i.e. plagiarize) essays, and write malware code and generally stir up conversations around ethical use, copyright laws, and automation of labor.
In January, Microsoft invested $10 billion in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which is now rumored to eventually power Microsoft’s search engine Bing — a distant second place to Google’s search engine. ChatGPT’s release and subsequent popularity was enough for Google executives to declare a “code red,” according to the New York Times.
Later this week (February 8), Google is hosting an event related to Search and Maps, which has the internet speculating about some kind of ChatGPT-related announcement. The details of the announcement are unknown, but the event’s description says, “We’re reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need.”
Regardless of what Google announces on Wednesday, it’s clear that the tech giant sees ChatGPT as a major threat.