For nearly a decade the Galaxy Note was the undisputed king of Android phones. But when the OG phablet line was retired in 2020, that title passed on to the Ultra. While the hardware inside the most expensive Galaxy S model is as dominant as ever, over the past few years, the software in Google phones has begun to outshine anything available from Samsung. But armed with a new suite of AI-powered
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- Scammers are using AI to spit out webpages and YouTube videos that game Google.
- Some of those sites run fake obituaries. Media websites are also being scraped and copied by AI.
- The end result: When garbage results flood Google, it's bad for users — and Google.
A little over a year after the public launch of ChatGPT, we're starting to
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- Goldman Sachs doesn't expect an inflation spike in the US fueled by turmoil in the Red Sea.
- To be sure, Red Sea disruptions have caused freight costs to soar as much as 350%.
- Yet, the situation is very different from the pandemic when shipping and inflation both jumped.

The influential career of Italian horror master Dario Argento gets a well-curated tribute in Dario Argento Panico. Simone Scafidi’s new documentary features interviews with the director as well as famous collaborators and admirers, including fellow boundary-pushing filmmakers Guillermo del Toro, Gaspar Noé, and Nicolas…
One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental, and economic losses of business as usual. It also outlines what governments can do to reap trillions of dollars’ worth of benefits by producing food more sustainably.
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- The Super Bowl in Las Vegas is now set with the Chiefs and 49ers playing for the Lombardi Trophy.
- Ticket prices are second only to the 2021 game that limited the number of fans because of COVID.
- Several factors have driven prices up, including the teams, stars, and location.
The Super Bowl matchup is now set, and if you are hoping to catch the big game in person
The Apple Vision Pro will be missing some major native apps at the outset, including Netflix, Spotify and YouTube. One notable app to which users of the mixed-reality headset will have access when it debuts later this week is Zoom, which will support the Vision Pro's Persona feature.
Vision Pro users will be able to create digital versions of themselves. If you have said Persona, others on a Zoom

Google Assistant is the search engine tech giant's answer to Siri that responds to "Hey Google!"
In case you missed it, "Google Assistant with Bard" is now in the works, which is set to underpin the assistant with Bard (i.e., Google's AI-powered chatbot). And now, thanks to a new leak, we're seeing some semblance of its existence.
'Google Assistant with Bard' demo found in Pixel Tips app

Facebook is a behemoth so large, so absolute, that just 20 years after its creation, it's difficult to imagine a world in which its power doesn't reach the most desolate of civilizations. Because it's a platform that spans the entire globe, but one that is commanded from Silicon Valley, it's easy to assume that it looks the same in every place you can access it.
However, legislators in the EU are

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