Virtual Game Cards Are Nintendo’s New Way to Share Switch Games Digitally

Virtual Game Cards Are Nintendo’s New Way to Share Switch Games Digitally

Nintendo Switch firmware update 20.0.0 just went live, allowing players to share games more easily with other console owners. Virtual Game Cards is the new catch-all term for anything digital you can swap from one console to the next, covering downloaded games, free software, or even pieces of DLC (additional game content). This new update … Read more

A Canadian mining company wants Trump’s permission to mine the deep sea

A Canadian mining company wants Trump’s permission to mine the deep sea

The Metals Company, which has been trying for years to exploit battery materials strewn across the ocean floor, announced today that it has applied for a permit from the Trump administration to start commercially mining in international waters. Together, the company and President Trump are circumventing a multilateral process to develop rules for deep sea … Read more

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI-generated today. The Microsoft CEO … Read more

Bose Ultra Open Earbuds vs. Shokz OpenDots One: Which open-ear clips are right for you?

Bose Ultra Open Earbuds vs. Shokz OpenDots One: Which open-ear clips are right for you?

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Meta’s new AI app delivers a chatbot with a social media twist

Meta’s new AI app delivers a chatbot with a social media twist

Vincent Feuray / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP Meta has unveiled a new AI app that combines chatbot features with a social media experience. Launched on Tuesday for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, the Meta AI app offers most of the usual aspects of an AI app. You can get information, generate content, and analyze … Read more

Google Takes Aim at Duolingo With AI Tools To Help You Learn New Languages

Google Takes Aim at Duolingo With AI Tools To Help You Learn New Languages

Google is debuting three new AI experiments that are intended to help users learn foreign languages on the go. The tools utilize Google’s Gemini large language model to identify objects and situations in a user’s immediate environment and provide translations that could help users ask for help or spark a conversation. II you want to … Read more

WhatsApp Is Walking a Tightrope Between AI Features and Privacy

WhatsApp Is Walking a Tightrope Between AI Features and Privacy

Last year, Apple debuted a similar scheme, known as Private Cloud Compute, for its Apple Intelligence AI platform. And users can turn the service on in Apple’s end-to-end encrypted communication app, Messages, to generate message summaries and compose “Smart Reply” messages on both iPhones and Macs. Looking at Private Cloud Compute and Private Processing side … Read more

AirPlay security flaws could help hackers spread malware on your network

AirPlay security flaws could help hackers spread malware on your network

Cybersecurity firm Oligo has detailed a set of vulnerabilities its researchers found in Apple’s AirPlay protocol and software development kit that could serve as a point of entry to infect other devices on your network, Wired reports. Oligo’s researchers refer to the vulnerabilities and attacks they enable as “AirBorne.” According to Oligo, two of the … Read more