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Search engines were among the first to push AI answers. These use artificial intelligence to generate answers for user queries and are often placed prominently. If you ask me, these are hit or miss. Sometimes, they provide answers that are dead on. At other times, they recommend to eat one rock per day. Reddit, which…
Most modern cars come with infotainment systems. These control a variety of functions, including the radio, calls, navigation and more. It was only a matter of time before some car manufacturers started to play with the idea of displaying ads on those screens to their customers to increase their profit margin. Stellantis, the fourth-largest manufacturer…
Remember userscripts? These little scripts are a useful alternative to browser extensions. They can be used for lots of things, most often for changing something on websites, like removing elements. Brave Software announced support for scriplets in the company’s Brave Browser today. These work similarly to userscripts. Users of the browser may add scriptlets to…
Google plans to roll out an automatic picture-in-picture mode in Chrome 134. The browser will be released next month. When it does, Chrome may continue to show video content on certain sites when the user scrolls away from the video content. This feature works for the most part identical to that of Mozilla Firefox, which…
Google, just like Microsoft, puts lots of effort into adding its Gemini AI to its products. AI is changing the Internet as we know it. There is the AI Overviews feature, which gives searches an AI generated answer on Google Search. Other examples include the Gemini button on properties such as Gmail or Google Docs….
Microsoft introduced a new feature that it called Privacy Protection less than two years ago to Microsoft 365 Home and Family plans. The feature gave subscribers access to a VPN service along with 50 gigabytes of traffic per month. Microsoft limited the feature to the Microsoft Defender app, subscribers, and users from a handful of…
Brave launched a new search feature today that introduces reranking options. The core idea is to give users of the search engine an option to see more results of websites they like or prefer, and less or nothing at all of sites that they do not like or want to see. This is especially useful…
Mozilla plans to release a second point update for Firefox 134 later today. Firefox 134.0.2 is another non-security update that addresses a few pressing problems in the browser that had to be fixed early. Most Firefox installations will be upgraded automatically once the update is released. As this does not happen in real-time, some users…
A new version of the Linux distribution Linux Mint is now available. Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term service release that will be supported until 2029. Downloads are already available on the official website and various mirror servers. As always, Linux 22.1 is available in three editions: Cinnamon, Xfce, and MATE. Cinnamon is the…
Mozilla plans to release a point update for Firefox 134 later today. Firefox 134.0.1 is a small non-security update that addresses three main issues. The details: Firefox 134.0.1: the fixes The big fix of this update is the crash fix. A bug prevented some Firefox Stable users from upgrading the browser to the recently released…