Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts
“The biggest [drawback] is that they are probabilistic prediction machines and will get it wrong in ways that aren’t just ‘that’s the wrong…
Three bizarre home devices and a couple good things at CES 2025
And yet, this week, in a CES-adjacent announcement, Google reminded me that Matter can really, uh, matter. All of Google Home’s hub devices—Nest…
Here’s how hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions
The people overseeing the security of Google’s Chrome browser explicitly forbid third-party extension developers from trying to manipulate how the browser extensions they…
Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation,…
FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
John Lopatka, a former consultant to the FTC who now teaches antitrust law at Penn State, told ProPublica that the Microsoft actions detailed…
How to Plan for a Landscape Photography Adventure
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How to Buy Used Camera Gear: A Step-By-Step Guide
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The good, the bad, and the ugly behind the push for more smart displays
After a couple of years without much happening, smart displays are in the news again. Aside from smart TVs, consumer screens that connect…
12 Tips for Stunning Urban Landscape Photography
Read moreDrupal 8.8.0 is available 12 Tips for Stunning Urban Landscape Photography Read moreBe an ambassador! A Post By: Leanne Cole Urban landscape…
Review: Amazon’s 2024 Kindle Paperwhite makes the best e-reader a little better
A fast Kindle? From left to right: 2024 Paperwhite, 2021 Paperwhite, and 2018 Paperwhite. Note not just the increase in screen size, but…
Is “AI welfare” the new frontier in ethics?
The researchers propose that companies could adapt the “marker method” that some researchers use to assess consciousness in animals—looking for specific indicators that…
Smartphone Photography: The Essential Guide (+ 15 Tips)
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Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other
The questions were not selected entirely at random. They were vetted, as the team wrote in their paper, to “minimize the risk of…
Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
Both operating systems will display a list of apps and whether they are permitted access always, never, only while the app is in…
Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems
Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized…