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Kohler's new E930 smart toilet seat.
Kohler has a new smart toilet seat that can be paired with digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa or Google Home.
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Well, it’s a new year, but the game in Silicon Valley remains very much the same. That game, in essence, involves doing anything and everything to convince you—the global consumer—that whatever hair-brained product Bay Area billionaires have cooked up is a must-have. Unfortunately, the tech industry has bet its money…

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ChatGPT gained the ability to listen and talk back in September, allowing users to speak with generative AI.

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On Thursday, Google announced a new “Robot Constitution” that will govern the AI that runs its upcoming army of intelligent machines. Based on Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics,” these safety instructions are meant to steer the devices’ decision-making process. First among them: “A robot may not injure a human…

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Google DeepMind has written a constitution to make AI-powered robots safer.
Google DeepMind has written a constitution to make AI-powered robots safer.
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CES is about more than just the gadgets you hold in your hand or sit at the desk to use. It’s about the stuff in your bathroom, too, which is why Kohler is using the annual trade show to debut its latest in connected fixtures. The new items include a new shower sprayer, a ventilation fan that helps with humidity after…

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Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun.
Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun.
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Google opened its Bay View campus in May of 2022.
Google opened its Bay View campus in May of 2022.
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Giant Tortoise
A Galapagos giant tortoise is pictured before its annual weighing at Riga Zoo.
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Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people.