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Even fresh out of the box, most smart TVs are bogged down with unnecessary software, including unwanted apps and advertising tools. One developer recently had enough, and gave AI agent Claude full access and instructions to debloat his TV.

When ChatGPT first launched in 2022, the only way to interact with it was through your keyboard. But it didn’t take long for another breakthrough: real-time voice chat. ChatGPT’s Voice Mode was the first feature of this kind, but we soon got competition from Google in the form of Gemini Live as well. Unlike older…

As robots learn to fake feelings, the line between comfort and creepy keeps shrinking.

Live Text makes it easy to interact with text you see anywhere by pointing your iPhone’s camera at it.

This summer, the popular games studio Bungie ended development on the long-running, live-service game Destiny 2. As an avid player who had chewed through all the content that game had to offer, I still wanted a Destiny fix, so I turned to the next best thing: the mobile game Destiny: Rising, developed by NetEase. But…

From the race for artificial intelligence to supply chains, right through to the tech giants barred from the Chinese market: the state dinner hosted at the White House in honour of President Xi Jinping brought together some of the key players in the increasingly complex relations between the United States and China. In the East…

Weak consumer demand has emerged as a recurring theme during the latest earnings season 

There are few things more terrifying than watching one of your favorite shows on Roku at night and suddenly hearing a disembodied voice coming from your screen. This robotic-sounding entity seems to know your every move, almost as if they’re narrating your life — but not in a fun Stranger Than Fiction kind of way.

Golden Gate supports a lot of Mac models, but it’s the end of the line for Intel machines.

It has also committed to implementing changes meant to address the state’s concerns.