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Microsoft has partnered with Nvidia to bring Microsoft-owned games to the GeForce Now cloud gaming service, perhaps hoping to convince regulators it's safe to approve its Activision Blizzard deal.

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Apple may have solved a big issue holding back its future phone plans, as the company has reportedly restarted development of the iPhone SE 4, its next affordable handset.

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Microsoft's AI-boosted Bing and Google's Bard have begun testing the latest type of AI technology, the large language models that packed such a big wow factor into OpenAI's ChatGPT. But a much smaller player, Brave, on Thursday added some of those language-processing abilities directly into its web browser with a feature that summarizes search results.

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For years, the chemicals used in hair spray and refrigerators wreaked havoc on the ozone layer, the protective shroud that shields us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. But it wasn't until 1974 that people started to take notice.

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Below is some of what your iPhone gains with iOS 16.4. And here's what you need to know before installing the update to help avoid running into issues with the download.

31 new emoji

The iOS 16.4 update brings 31 new emoji to your iOS device. The new emoji include a new smiley; new animals, like a moose and a goose; and new heart colors, including pink and light blue.



Voice Isolation comes to cellular calls

Voice Isolation was introduced with iOS 15 in 2021, and at the time it worked only on FaceTime calls. Now with iOS 16.4, you can use the feature on your cellular calls too.

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Microsoft has added its BIng AI chatbot to its popular SwiftKey third-party keyboard app for iOS and Android phones, giving users quick access to AI-generated answers and advice.
With the keyboard open, you need only tap the blue Bing icon above the keyboard on the left to open the submenu, and then choose whether to have Bing AI search the internet for a query or give you answers itself via a chat.

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As Google gears up for next month's I/O event, the company is still playing catch-up to OpenAI's ChatGPT. ChatGPT sped past Google in releasing an AI-powered chatbot to market late last year, and Google's been fumbling to counter with something as dramatic. Bard, Google's answer to ChatGPT, has proven to be mediocre by comparison. And Bing's revamped AI search, which piggybacks off of ChatGPT, is giving Google some competition in the internet search business, seeing a nearly 16% growth.
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Don't be surprised if your Google search experience looks different sometime soon. Internal documents say the company plans to make its search engine more "visual, snackable, personal, and human," with an eye toward young people worldwide, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

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Google is ready to open the Bard floodgates, at least to English speakers around the world. After two months of testing, access to the AI-powered chatbot no longer is gated by a waitlist.
Google announced the move at its Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, a week after Microsoft removed the waitlist for its competing Bing chatbot. In addition to opening Bard up to people in 180 English-speaking countries and territories, it added Japanese and Korean chat abilities as part of a 40-language expansion plan.

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Apple released iOS 16.5 to the general public Thursday, a few days after the company released an updated version of the iOS 16.5 release candidate to developers and beta testers. The latest iOS update provides bug fixes and security patches, as well as a few new features.

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