Every now and then, you run into some genuinely surprising new Android option that actually makes you sit up and say: Whoaaaa. (Kindly apply an early-90s Keanu affectation onto that when reading it in your mind, if you would.) This week, my fellow Android-appreciating animal, I had exactly that sort of moment. And, as often

If you’re new to Google Sheets, our Google Sheets cheat sheet can quickly get you up and running with the popular web-based spreadsheet app. Once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s time to dig in with a few intermediate tips. We’ll guide you through a fast way to clean up your data; how named ranges can

Google Sheets is a powerful spreadsheet app that you use through your web browser. It stores your spreadsheets in the cloud with Google Drive. In addition to the web app, there are Sheets mobile apps for Android and iOS. Anyone with a Google account can use Sheets and Drive for free. They’re also part of

Just in time to build up the late-summer Apple product refresh hype, news of a big collection of product upgrades has magically appeared as Cupertino puts the finishing touches to its iPhone keynote event invite. To help Apple fans monitor the impact of the latest leaks on their blood oxygen levels, the company also helpfully reintroduced some support for oxygen

The AI boom has created a record-breaking wave of new billionaires and high company valuations in the past year at a rate unprecedented in history, according to CNBC. CB Insights reports there are now 498 AI “unicorns” (private companies worth at least $1 billion) with a combined value of $2.7 trillion — and 100 of

For years now, big tech and its financial backers have been blowing past the warning signs that human-level AI — the theoretical technology with hundreds of billions of dollars riding on it — could turn out to be a pipe-dream, at best. Now, however, Wall Street appears to be yanking its money out of one

The new CEO of Character.AI — the controversial AI chatbot startup currently fighting a high-profile child welfare lawsuit over the suicide of a 14-year-old user — says the company has abandoned its founding mission of realizing artificial general intelligence, or AGI. In an interview with Wired, recently crowned Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand declared that the company “gave

Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering mind behind AI industry-transforming neural networks, who’s often referred to as a “godfather of AI,” says we need to infuse AI with “maternal instincts” to save humanity from rogue AI. Though his work on neural networks helped to usher in the large language models (LLMs) that dominate Silicon Valley today, these days,

In news that should alarm parents everywhere, Reuters just came out with a blockbuster report revealing that Meta’s internal policies allowed underage children to have “conversations that are romantic or sensual” with the company’s AI chatbots. After Reuters asked Meta about the shocking revelation, which was discovered in a 200-page internal document, the social media

The launch of OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model last week marked an ignominious chapter for the company. While it boasted modest performance upgrades on paper, the actual experience of using it left many fans sorely disappointed.  Common criticisms were that its answers were too short and its writing was noticeably worse and devoid of personality. On