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Building a slide deck from scratch is one of those tasks that eats hours without adding much value. Three AI tools now promise to handle the first draft: Copilot in PowerPoint, Gemini in Google Slides and the standalone service Gamma. Each follows a different logic, and choosing the wrong one for your setup can waste … Read more
Discovering that someone has created a fake social media profile using your name or photos is a deeply unsettling experience. The four major platforms—Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X—explicitly prohibit impersonation and provide dedicated reporting channels, with three of them allowing reports even without an account. In Spain, creating a fake profile with another person’s image … Read more
Denmark’s culture minister, Zenia Stampe, put a bill before the Folketing on 8 October banning publication of realistic digital imitations of a person’s appearance, voice and movements without consent. She proposes effect from 1 January 2027. It is the second attempt: the prior version lapsed in Danish elections, after the 31 March 2026 and 1 … Read more
A phone no longer shows its factory hardware ID to every Wi-Fi network. iPhones have used a private MAC address per network by default since iOS 14, Android since Android 10, and Windows offers it as an option. The address is invented per network, so tracking a device across locations is harder. It also clashes … Read more
Twenty-seven researchers, led by the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, used the James Webb Space Telescope for eleven uninterrupted hours to study WISE 0855, the coldest known object outside the Solar System. They report irregular water clouds that thicken and thin; the work is accepted by The Astronomical Journal and posted as a preprint. The … Read more
Photograph a crumpled receipt and ask a chatbot what it contains: reading and condensing documents is core work for these tools. Photograph a chessboard and ask where the pieces stand: OpenAI’s documentation picks that exact example when it concedes its models handle precise spatial location badly. A multimodal model, plainly, takes in more than text … Read more
A forgotten login can outlive the device behind it. After a lost phone, a resold laptop, a hotel computer or suspicious account activity, major services usually let you inspect active sessions and end them remotely. The warning is simple: signing out will not stop an intruder who already knows the password. Remote sign-out exists: Google, … Read more
This guide is for anyone translating emails, work documents or texts with a personal tone who is unsure whether to use DeepL, Google Translate or a chatbot such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude. The short answer: a conventional translator for volume and layout, a chatbot when register matters and you can give context, and no … Read more
When a computer feels slow, the diagnostic tools are already installed. Windows and macOS show which programs consume processor, memory and disk, and which launch automatically. Microsoft’s official performance guidance lists common causes: low storage, too many startup apps, outdated software and hardware that no longer fits the workload. The first three have built-in fixes; … Read more
Contactless payments have become the convenient villain of card fraud: the fear is a hidden reader skimming a card through a pocket and cloning it. The evidence is more nuanced. European supervisors and researchers agree contactless has limits, but most card fraud happens elsewhere—mainly in remote payments and schemes that persuade the cardholder to act. … Read more