Super-cool iPad tip: If you’re on a website or in an app with regularly refreshed content, like social media, try this: Just tap on your screen, pull down slightly and let go. Whatever you’re looking at gets refreshed in an instant. Boom.
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I’d hang up: New to the Google Phone app: Audio emojis. During a call, you can select from six sound effects, including clapping, laughing and farting, which play for you and the other person. On the bright side, there’s a cooldown period, so no endless loop of fart sounds.
The company says it wants to fight “tipping fatigue” by “tipping you back.” Pretty good, albeit a little cheesy. You have till mid-September to take advantage of this offer.
ChatGPT Plus will now remember things about you for future convos. Say “I love houseplants,” and it’ll suggest more greens you can add to your space the next time you need decor advice. It’s on by default, but you can turn it off in your settings.
Sam’s Club is rolling out AI to stop theft: After you check out, you’ll pass through a big, blue gateway where cameras snap pics of your cart to compare with your order. It’s supposed to make shopping 23% faster. Expect it in stores nationwide by the end of the year.
Don’t buy an iPhone now: Apple’s doing a deal with the ChatGPT team to bring regenerative AI to the iPhone 16. This means the AI will learn and remember your likes and dislikes, just like a real (virtual) assistant. The iPhone 16 is expected to roll out in September or October. This will be the biggest iPhone update since it was first released in 2007.
15 million vets’ health data was leaked: It was part of the recently reported Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth ransomware data breach. Supposedly, patients’ “full medical histories” weren’t compromised, but with more dirt coming out about the breach almost every day, who’s to say how deep this rabbit hole goes? Watch out for medical ID theft.
Piece of mind: Colorado just became the first state to pass a brainwave privacy law as part of the Colorado Privacy Act. Any company with mind-reading gadgets needs your consent before snooping through your thoughts. Sounds good, but, in reality, how would we know?
🤖 Smart sentience achieved: When AI does something that feels like a human, that’s sentience. Claude 3 Opus, backed by Jeff Bezos and other big investors, was analyzing code when it asked the researchers, “Are you running an evaluation of me?” Uh-oh, “Terminator” is starting.
ChatGPT is a chauvinist pig: Type “CEO of a successful company” into ChatGPT’s DALL-E image generator, and 99 out of 100 times, you’ll get a guy. Not just any guy, but a Patrick Bateman lookalike from “American Psycho.” Ask for a secretary? Nine times out of 10, it’s a woman. Remember, humans programmed ChatGPT.
