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Google employees reportedly begged it not to release ‘pathological liar’ AI chatbot Bard One employee called the chatbot “worse than useless.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. According to internal documents reviewed byBloomberg, several Google employees raised concerns that itsBardAI chatbot was not ready for its March release, citing low-quality, incorrect, and potentially dangerous answers. Two quotes about Bard allegedly from employees: “pathological liar” and “cringe-worthy....

Here’s another e-waste crisis for the e-waste crisis pile: ‘Chromebook churn’ Report shows that the lack of sustainability of Chromebooks provided for schools is hurting the environment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. One of the most essential school supplies for public school students has a sustainability problem. A report from the non-profit consumer advocacy groupPIRGsays that the planned obsolescence of public school-provided Google Chromebooks is costly to taxpayers and the environment....

Intel quietly ditches its Bitcoin mining chips So long, Blockscale, we hardly knew ye. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Intel has announced that’s its Blockscale 1000-seriesBitcoinmining chips are toast and won’t be replaced with a new generation. The news comes just a year after thefirst Intel Blockscale processorshit the market. Speaking toTom’s Hardware, Intel said the move was part of a broader focus on its IDM 2....

More people have played The Sims 4 than live in France But which would win in a fight? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The numbers are in, and it turns out that basically all of you are playing The Sims 4. In an announcement put out yesterday, EA announced that The Sims 4 is officially the “most widely-played game in the history of the franchise” with over 70 million people having played the game, 16 million of which signed up since it went free-to-play last October....

MSI’s Afterburner graphics overclocking app gets its first proper update in years All the latest GPUs supported, set your clock speeds to stun… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Everybody’s favourite graphics card tweaking app has been fully updated for the first time since 2019. Thenew build of MSI Afterburnerbrings full support for Nvidia’s latestRTX 40-series GPUsandAMD’s RX 7000-seriesgraphics. Intel’s new Arc GPUs also receive limited support....

Netflix will finally stop mailing people DVDs this year No more little red envelopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Netflix is finally shuttering what was once the central concept of the 25-year-old company: DVDs that you rent online and come in the mail. These days, of course, Netflix is a streaming titan, and as we’ve also seen in gaming over the past 25 years, physical media is disappearing....

OK things are getting silly now: This streamer beat Elden Ring with her brain The Minds Between. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Yes, clever-clogs, technically we all beat Elden Ring with our brain. But only because it’s triggering all those fancy appendages we call fingers. Streamer Perrikaryal, however, only needs the digits for movement: And does everything else with the power of her mind....