March Madness Bracket Day 2

March Madness Bracket Day 2

Graphic: Gizmodo It’s day 2 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to crown the greatest app of all time! The mighty Fart App has fallen to Instagram in our first round and today’s challengers are WhatsApp vs Dark Sky. Will Mark Zuckerberg win again? That’s up to you. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to …

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AI might be reading your Slack, Teams messages using tech from Aware

AI might be reading your Slack, Teams messages using tech from Aware

Huge U.S. employers such as Walmart, Delta Air Lines, T-Mobile, Chevron and Starbucks, as well as European brands including Nestle and AstraZeneca, have turned to a seven-year-old startup, Aware, to monitor chatter among their rank and file, according to the company. Jeff Schumann, co-founder and CEO of the Columbus, Ohio-based startup, says the AI helps …

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7 beloved Windows apps Microsoft has killed over the years

7 beloved Windows apps Microsoft has killed over the years

Microsoft’s history is littered with the discontinuation of once-beloved applications. Most recently, WordPad, the renowned text editor app, was conspicuously absent from the latest beta build of Windows 11, indicating an end to its 28-year-long journey. I have fond memories of using the app back in my college days when Microsoft Office was too pricey …

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Chevy Dealership’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue

Chevy Dealership’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech A chatbot at a California car dealership went viral this week after bored web users discovered that, as is the case with most AI programs, they could trick it into …

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