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Change Your Fashion Game with Google’s Swipe Right and Swipe Left Options

Google will let you swipe right or swipe left on clothes to get better fashion recommendationsGoogle is rolling out a new update that makes it easier for users to find personalized shopping results, the company announced on Wednesday. The new feature lets users rate different products in order to get style recommendations when shopping for apparel, shoes and accessories. After you have rated a selection of products, Google will display personalized results for you to parse through. Google will remember your preferences, so if you ever search for men’s polo shirts again, you will see style recommendations based on what you liked in the past. The company says people shop on Google more than a billion times a day and see more than 45 billion products in their results.

Dylan Williams
March 27, 2024

Gadgets

“Demystifying the DOJ’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple iPhone”

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Apple over allegedly monopolistic smartphone practices. The federal agency is not alone in the matter, bringing 15 states and the District of Columbia into the mix as well. Regulators and tech companies, name a more iconic duo. But as we’re about to see with Apple, big tech companies are not going to go down without a fight. For more on Apple’s antitrust lawsuit, check here:

Dylan Williams
March 22, 2024

Robotics & AI

European Parliament gives approval to EU AI Act deal

The European Parliament voted Wednesday to adopt the AI Act, securing the bloc pole-position in setting rules for a broad sweep of artificial intelligence-powered software — or what regional lawmakers have dubbed “the world’s first comprehensive AI law”. pic.twitter.com/t4ahAwkaSn — Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) March 13, 2024Once published in the EU’s Official Journal in the coming months, the AI Act will come into force 20 days after that. And with that alone the AI Act has nudged the future of AI in a human-centric direction. But the legislation also puts some (light touch) transparency obligations on a third subset of apps, including AI chatbots; generative AI tools that can create synthetic media (aka deepfakes); and general purpose AI models (GPAI). Rules for GPAIs were a later addition to the AI Act, driven by concerned MEPs.