TL;DR: Through May 22, you can score a lifetime subscription to iScanner for only £38.09, a price drop since the last time this app went on sale.
The list of what your smartphone can do gets longer by the day. It can take beautiful photos, tell you how to get anywhere, track your steps, help you talk to a foreigner, notify you if you need to bring your umbrella to work the next day, and even make a feature film. Depending on what type of vehicle and phone you have, it can even start your...
Gang leaders with suspected links to the 2021 Haitian president’s assassination now control key infrastructure, and pose a major threat to the incoming Kenya-led force.
I'm afraid of people with brains big enough to pass this quiz.
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Hey Siri, play "Do You Believe In Magic" by The Lovin' Spoonful, cuz the results this Kim Chi setting powder delivers has *got* to be witchcraft.
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This magical pet stain carpet spray is a $20 investment in never worrying about replacing your carpets again.
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Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.
If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for May 21's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
Where did Wordle come from?Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread...
The best things in life are only 20 bucks or less...that may or may not be how the saying goes.
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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for May 21's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep...
The friendly rasp of ChatGPT’s ‘Sky’ voice is getting the AI company into hot water.
Last week, OpenAI launched ChatGPT 4o, a new model of its chatbot assistant that converses in almost real time. Users could choose from five voices, including Sky, whose friendly intonation had a slight rasp vaguely reminiscent of Scarlett Johansson. An actor who, not coincidentally, had voiced an AI assistant in “Her,” a 2013 film that follows a man who falls in love with his computer’s...
Alicia Silverstone finally got brave enough to make a profile and had a date all planned, but then her account was banned before she could find out where she was supposed to meet him!
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Because you (and your beauty routine) are worth it.
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Actress Scarlett Johannson was "shocked" and "angered" upon hearing ChatGPT's "Sky" voice, which some had likened to her own. Johannson famously voiced a fictional digital assistant in the 2013 film Her.
In a statement released Monday, obtained by NBC News, Johannson felt the comparisons were apt and said the Sky voice was "eerily similar" to hers.
Crucially, she added that she'd received an offer last September from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to voice Sky — and that she declined the offer.
"He...
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Volvo revealed its first “production-ready” self-driving truck that it’s making with Aurora, the autonomous driving technology company founded by former executives from Google, Uber, and Tesla.
The truck is based on Volvo’s new VNL, which is a Class 8 semi truck built for long-haul transportation. The autonomous version of the truck features an array of sensors and cameras to power Aurora’s Level 4 autonomous driving system, which enables the truck to operate...
An Apple Photos glitch, now fixed, is a reminder that digital bits of your life will live on forever.
In a scorching statement, Scarlett Johansson claims that after she turned down an invitation to voice ChatGPT, OpenAI brazenly mimicked her distinctive tones anyway.
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Scarlett Johansson says that OpenAI asked her to be the voice behind ChatGPT — but that when she declined, the company went ahead and created a voice that sounded just like her. In a statement shared to NPR, Johansson says that she has now been “forced to hire legal counsel” and has sent two letters to OpenAI inquiring how the soundalike ChatGPT voice, known as Sky, was made.
“Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman,...
Image: X / Belle Delphine
Belle Delphine, the woman who went viral in 2019 for selling jars of her bathwater, revealed earlier this month that the stunt earned her $90K in profits. In a thread on X, the adult content creator and model also explained that because of PayPal, the payment processing system she used for the sale, she never saw a dime of that money.
“PayPal, without any warning closed my PayPal account and took the $90,000 that I earned from selling my bathwater,” Belle...