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Let's explore why Nvidia's metaverse effort has been wildly successful while Facebook's became one of the most expensive failures in tech history. We'll close with my Product of the Week, a Chromebook from HP that may be the best Chromebook ever built.

Online therapy is a booming industry, and now AI-powered chatbots are starting to roll into the territory. The arrival of ChatGPT and its enhanced language ability to deal with human interaction might soon be a revolutionary alternative to divulging your darkest mental health issues to a human thera...

Since Google unveiled Bard to the world in February, the company has been trying to play catch up with Microsoft, which has been introducing AI features into its products at a feverish pace.

The initiative known as IOWN (Innovative Optical and Wireless Network) facilitates breakthrough "low latency" that dramatically decreases transmission time lags. The result is one-200th of the relevant delays compared to conventional optical communication systems.

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Microsoft Makes Office Smart

Microsoft did last week what we expected it to do next year by putting generative AI called Copilot into Microsoft 365. This technology is potentially as big a game changer for office productivity as Microsoft Office initially was.

It is time to tackle the growing problem of removing your personal data from uncontrolled online displays, and there are solutions within your grasp. Protect your identity, reputation, and assets with these strategies to delete your data from public record websites and other online dens of inequity.

The large multimodal language model, GPT-4, is ready for prime time, although, contrary to reports circulating since Friday, it doesn't support the ability to produce videos from text.

Apple may be considering expanding the repertoire of its popular AirPods line beyond entertainment and into the realm of health, specifically with more hearing-assistance technology.

Lenovo has launched a new line of workstations co-designed with Aston Martin. They are impressive performers, using up to two of Intel's most powerful CPUs and up to four of Nvidia's most powerful professional graphics cards.

The Era 100 and Era 300 are Sonos' two new "better and best" offerings. Priced at $450, the Era 300 is the first Sonos speaker capable of playing spatial audio. In comparison, the $250 Era 100 is a wholly rebuilt successor to the Sonos One with several upgrades over its predecessor.

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Waging War on the Sextortion Epidemic

Digital Forensics Corporation is waging war to protect and educate the public about a rapidly growing trend in cybercrime dubbed sextortion, where online predators target teens and young adults with threats to expose sensitive personal photos.

To help companies prepare for the changing nation-state attack landscape, Forrester has a new model to defend themselves and prepare for an expected onslaught of regulations to follow.

The new policy urges more mandates on the firms that control most of the nation's digital infrastructure. It also preaches an expanded government role to disrupt hackers and state-sponsored entities.

Let's look at five areas that will be changed dramatically by the influx of generative AI, some potentially for the worse. Then we'll close with my Product of the Week: the first truly wireless security camera -- with wireless broadcast power -- to hit the market.


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