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Orbit by Mozilla is a browser extension that brings AI-functionality to Firefox. It was announced in September 2024 and is currently available as a beta. Orbit supports a few options right now, but there are also limitations. As far as these are concerned, it is available only for pages in English at the time of…
If you have used the Opera browser recently, you may have noticed that the browser displays a splash logo on start. It may also play sound while it is at it. While that may look cool to some, others might feel that it slows down the start of the browser or find it outright annoying….
You may recall that Alphabet is currently under investigation in the United States and that a potential breakup of the company is looming over the company’s head. Suggestions include selling of Google Chrome and Android, or separating the ad business are all on the table. The Verge reports that Alphabet has made a counteroffer. Clearly,…
So, AI systems seem to be almost everywhere already or are in the process of being integrated into pretty much any device or product. OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, has now announced that you may call ChatGPT to have a chat with the AI. Call 1-800-ChatGPT, or 1-800-242-8478, to do so. You should note that you…
Google Search has been the major search engine in most regions for a long time. While it has changed a lot under the hood in that time, it is still used by many as the main tool for searches. AI is threatening Google’s search dominance. While it is too early to tell how good AI-based…
One of the first things that I disable on Windows 11 PCs is the integrated web search. Microsoft merged local and web search in Windows some years ago mostly for its own benefit. Web search results generate clicks and revenue for Microsoft. For users, they serve little purpose. Often, they tend to get in the…
Microsoft introduced the new dedicated Copilot-key for Windows keyboards less than a year ago. Now, the company suggests to remap the key to another function, but only on managed PCs. Here is a quick refresher: Microsoft announced the Copilot key in January to “kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs”. The company even went…
Remember suggested actions? Microsoft introduced the feature in mid-2022 in Insider builds of Windows 11 and rolled it out to stable systems later on. The core idea behind the feature was simple: highlight certain text in Windows and the operating system suggests actions based on the highlighted string. Highlight a phone number and you get…
Mozilla plans to remove the Do Not Track feature from Firefox. The idea behind it was simple: inform websites that the user of the browser does not want to be tracked. What looked good on paper did not work well in the real world. Many sites ignored the header, which made it ineffective as a…
Copilot Vision is an experimental AI-feature that, Microsoft promises, is going to revolutionize the online life of computer users. Microsoft says that Copilot Vision sees the pages that users are on, reads the content of the pages, and is there for users when they have questions about current or past content, or want to have…