Category: Tech
Xiaomi unveils 5 new Redmi Note phones, Apple prepares to ‘split’ app store in Europe
Xiaomi has started the year with a bang, unveiling five new Redmi Note phones, with the higher-end handsets in particular sporting some impressively high-end features. The new range comprises the Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro Plus 5G, the Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G, the Redmi Note 13 Pro, the Redmi Note 13 5G, and the…
Rabbit AI assistant sells out, Tesla halts car production
AI start-up Rabbit is having startling early success with its new Rabbit R1 AI hardware-based assistant. The device made a splash following its unveiling at CES earlier in the week and the initial batch of 10,000 units sold out on day one. The second batch of 10,000 units sold out almost immediately with the third…
OpenAI opens GPT store for customised chatbots, UK government plans porn review
OpenAI on Wednesday launched its GPT Store, a marketplace where paid ChatGPT users can buy and sell specialized chatbot agents based on the company’s language models. The company, whose wildly popular product ChatGPT helped kickstart the boom in AI, already offers customized bots through its paid ChatGPT Plus service. The new store will allow users to…
CES 2024: Samsung AI fridge recommends recipes, Asus to launch smart glasses
The Consumer Electrics Show (CES) is one of the biggest tech events in the world and the 2024 event has certainly thrown up some interesting products and concepts already... Held in Las Vegas, the first CES happened in 1967, and over the years thousands of products have been unveiled at the show - including satellite…
VW to offer ChatGPT integration, LG announces transparent telly
Cerence Chat Pro will be available in the new Golf At CES 2024, the world's leading electronics trade fair held in Las Vegas, Volkswagen will unveil its first vehicles with integrated ChatGPT. Soon customers will have seamless access to the constantly growing artificial intelligence database in all Volkswagen models equipped…
Debunking Seven Winter Heating Myths
Our expert sets the record straight on these seven common misconceptions about winter heating... As the weather gets colder, it’s important to keep yourself and your home warm. But many people have some strange beliefs when it comes to winter heating, many of which might be making their homes less energy- and cost-efficient to heat. …
Apple makes payments over ‘slowing down’ iPhones, 2023 worst year ever for cyber attacks
The payouts to US customers will be restricted to owners of the iPhone 6 Apple has begun making payments in a long-running class action lawsuit over claims it deliberately slowed down certain iPhones in the US. Complainants will receive a cut of a $500m (£394m) settlement which works out to around $92…
Young people turn to AI therapist bots, 1 in 5 new cars are electric
Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin. These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people. It uses the same type of AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot…
Hackers predict: The biggest cybersecurity worries in 2024
Hacking courses, leaked nudes and AI-led scams – these are the most discussed topics on the dark web forums... Every year around experts at NordVPN try to predict the cybersecurity risks awaiting us in the next year. This year they decided to take a different route and look into the biggest dark web forum to find…
Brits have most financially savvy Christmas in years, study reveals
Lowell’s year-on-year study showcases how Brits opted to be as money-conscious as possible for Christmas 2023, to prepare for 2024 financially 14% more Brits were able to rely on their disposable income for Christmas 2023, compared to the previous year 13% less people used credit cards or buy now pay later schemes for their Christmas…
