Abstract: Personal assistants or the desktop assistant have proven to be very useful in daily life as they made our work easier. If the user wants to perform some action without using their hands, ...

Texas A&M University researchers have found that a brief virtual reality (VR) simulation of a near-death experience can sharply reduce people's anxiety about death. In a small pilot study of about 60 ...

Apple doesn't currently allow iPhone users to change the Side button's Siri functionality to another assistant, but owners of iPhone 15 Pro and newer models can assign ChatGPT to the Action button ...

Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism. When she's not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black coffee ...

The FBI warns of criminals altering images shared on social media and using them as fake proof of life photos in virtual kidnapping ransom scams. This is part of a public service announcement ...

Adopting digital twin technology to manage the power consumption of idle devices could save organizations thousands of pounds a year and help reduce their carbon footprint, new research suggests.

Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice ...

Transferring data seamlessly from an old Mac or Windows PC to your new MacBook Air using Migration Assistant, Move to Mac, or Time Machine restore. Pixabay, josemdelaa Transferring data from an old ...

Instacart launched a suite of artificial intelligence tools for grocers, dubbed AI Solutions. The collection includes an AI shopping assistant that helps with personalized meal planning, budgeting, ...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, ...