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“You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag,” said that infamous 2000s anti-piracy commercial from the Motion Picture Association. “Piracy is stealing.”Do Not Steal Our Robot Dog!But would you pirate a song? Last year, over 17 billion visits were made to music piracy websites around the world, first reported by Wired. Music piracy is on the rise, with visits to these websites increasing by 13% from 2022. We’ve come a long way since Napster, but people are once again using the internet to illegally download…

The Browser Company recently released an AI browser for iOS called Arc Search, and this is the quickest I have ever switched to a browser on my personal phone. I am not the biggest fan of AI and am critical of forcing AI into everything that comes out now. But this browser was quite good and might actually replace Safari as my default browser on my iPhone in the long term. Apple Unveils Its iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9What is Arc Search?Simply put, Arc Search uses AI to browse the web for you. It will do a (very)…

I love Circle to Search on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. It has added multitasking to Android that I have not felt in a long time. At its core, Circle to Search is not an entirely groundbreaking feature. It snaps a screenshot and then transcribes any words or pictures you highlight into a Google Search. But that’s precisely the point. It makes it easy to access the main reason I’m an Android user in the first place: immediate access to Google.Samsung Galaxy Flip 5: Hands-on first Impressions of Samsung's Pocket-Sized…

On Tuesday, Google announced a slew of new features in Chrome that continue web browsers’ inevitable march into the world of artificial intelligence. They include an AI theme generator that customizes the look of your browser, a tool that will fill any field with AI-penned text, and a new “smart” tab organizer that will coral your shameful, ever-growing herd of open websites.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Tabs Organizer and the AI theme generator come with the latest version of…

It’s getting more and more difficult to know whether or not to believe what you see on the web and on social media, what with misinformation and faked content now churned out on a huge scale, but there are resources that can help you find the truth: Including a tool called Fact Check Explorer that’s maintained by Google.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” In Google’s words, the tool “gives journalists and fact checkers a deeper way to learn about an image or topic”, and it taps into…

In a recent investigation conducted by researchers from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Google's search experience is under scrutiny due to a surge in low-quality content and SEO spam, notably in product-related searches. The study sheds light on the ongoing battle between search engines and spam sites, revealing the challenges search engines face in keeping up with evolving SEO strategies.SEO Tactics vs. Search EnginesDuring the…

The internet is quickly becoming a slurry of AI-generated garbage, and Google has decided to just let us all marinate in it. Anyone online can see that Google Search is getting worse, but now it’s becoming clear why. Google News is boosting AI-generated garbage over real, human journalism, according to a report from 404 Media Thursday.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIGoogle said it does not prioritize articles written by humans over AI-generated content in a statement to 404 Media. So,…

Image Source : FILE Google to bring AI image generator to Bard Google is reportedly planning to add its image generator directly to its AI chatbot Bard. As shared by developer Dylan Roussel on X (formerly known as Twitter), an unpublished Google Bard changelog- dated January 18 (2024) which shows how you can "Create images with Bard". As per the…

The modern generation of Android phones is getting new Google Lens-like features that put Search front and center in every single app on Android by letting you highlight parts of images or text to generate Search results. The newly-announced Samsung Galaxy S24 and last year’s Pixel 8 models are all getting access to this, and surprisingly, it is the first time any phone will have AI Search features natively without needing to sign up for a beta.Google's Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are New, and Somewhat ImprovedThe Circle to Search…

For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AI When you ask the company, the search giant’s PR teams promise its flagship product is best in class. In fact, we’re told Google Search is better than ever. Strange, then, that yet another study just confirmed what…