Tag: Tech News

  • The Google TV Streamer can't use Nest speakers for audio beyond speaker groups

    Google’s brand-new and quite compelling Google TV Streamer looks like a major improvement, but one feature that’s still missing is support for using Nest speakers for audio output in lieu of something like a soundbar. For years now, we’ve been waiting on Google to launch support for using Nest speakers as audio output on a…

  • After nine years, Google's Nest Learning Thermostat gets an AI makeover

    After nine long years, Google is finally refreshing the device that gave Nest its name. The company on Tuesday announced the launch of the Nest Learning Thermostat 4, 13 years after the release of the original and nearly a decade after the Learning Thermostat 3 and ahead of the Made by Google 2024 event next…

  • 'Gemini on earbuds' is 'Your new AI assistant'

    Work on bringing the Gemini assistant to more form factors beyond the web and phones continues with a new mention of “Gemini on earbuds.”  About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in…

  • OpenAI has a '99% effective' ChatGPT-detection tool ready. So why aren't they releasing it?

    Thanks to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft-backed OpenAI has admitted to having a tool that can watermark ChatGPT-generated text. According to OpenAI, the system has been ready for over a year now; however, there’s been debate on whether or not to release it. SEE ALSO: OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT’s new Voice AI…

  • Forget The New iPhone 16, Apple Has Something Much Better

    Updated August 4 with details on the iPhone 16 release date and delayed AI software. Apple will launch the new iPhone 16 early in September, but a new iPhone is coming that is far more exciting for consumers than the vanilla iPhone 16. How long will you have to wait for this fourth-generation iPhone SE,…

  • OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students

    Following a report from The Wall Street Journal that claims OpenAI has been sitting on a tool that can spot essays written by ChatGPT with a high degree of accuracy, the company has shared a bit of information about its research into text watermarking — and why it hasn’t released its detection method. According to…

  • Google just made the Search widget a lot less fun

    Google has overhauled its Search widget, significantly limiting user customization options. While the new design introduces Dynamic Color compatibility, it strips away many beloved personalization features. Streamlined Google Search widget redesign Previously, users could extensively customize the Search widget’s appearance, including background color, icon shapes, and transparency. Customizing involved placing the Google Search widget on…

  • iPhone 16 Still Coming in September Despite Delayed Apple Intelligence Rollout

    Apple will launch the iPhone 16 series within its traditional September timeframe this year, despite Apple Intelligence set to be absent in the first public release of iOS 18. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says his sources tell him that the iPhone launch will occur around the same time…