⌨️ Microsoft's AI Keyboard, AI's Poetic Past, Google's Cookie Phase-Out
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Microsoft's new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years. Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it's kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs. A new Copilot key will ship on a variety of new PCs and laptops from Microsoft's partners, providing quick access to Microsoft’s AI-powered Windows Copilot experience straight from a keyboard button press. By Tom Warren via The Verge
𝕏: We’re excited for 2024 to be the year of the AI PC. An important first step is the introduction of a Copilot key for Windows 11 PCs, which will enable one-click access to Copilot! - Yusuf Mehdi (@yusuf_i_mehdi)
'Where does the bot end and human begin?': what the legendary @Horse_ebooks can teach us about AI. More than a decade before an AI-powered chatbot could do your homework, help you make dinner or pass the bar exam, there was @Horse_ebooks. The primitive predecessor to today’s chatbot renaissance began as a Twitter account in 2010, tweeting automated excerpts from ebooks that, decontextualized, took on unexpected and strangely poetic meanings. By Kari Paul via The Guardian
𝕏: "When things break, when things glitch... there’s always a beautiful moment of peeking behind the curtain – understanding + reminding yourself that it is just a machine." The man behind @Horse_ebooks has a lot to say about the current AI boom - Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett)
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Google Is Finally Killing Cookies. Advertisers Still Aren't Ready. Google is going forward with sweeping changes to how companies track users online—moves that have been years in the making. Advertisers still aren’t ready. The changes, among the biggest in the history of the $600 billion-a-year online ad industry, center on the use of cookies, technology that logs the activity of internet users across websites so that advertisers can target them with relevant ads. By Miles Kruppa via Wall Street Journal
Roku introduces Pro Series streaming TVs, with an AI feature. Roku has been around for a decade and it’s celebrating the occasion with the Roku Pro Series TVs, which come with a new AI feature. These streaming TVs offer enhanced picture quality and automatic content optimization, Roku said as it prepares to show off the goods at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas next week. By Dean Takahashi via VentureBeat
Urbanista integrates Powerfoyle tech with solar-powered headphones. The subject of solar-powered tech rouses a bit of deserved skepticism among consumers. At the end of the day, I suspect most folks would love more sustainable gadgets they never have to charge, but on the whole, the actual technology rarely — if ever — lives up to expectation. By Brian Heater via TechCrunch
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