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  1. What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data

    Apple, Microsoft and Google need more access to our data as they promote new phones and personal computers that are powered by artificial intelligence. Should we trust them?

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

  2. Welcome to the Era of the A.I. Smartphone

    Apple and Google are getting up close and personal with user data to craft memos, summarize documents and generate images.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditSisi Yu

  3. The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype

    OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.

     By Brian X. Chen

    ChatGPT-4o trying to solve a geometry problem
    CreditArsenii Vaselenko for The New York Times

  4. Smartphones Can Now Last 7 Years. Here’s How to Keep Them Working.

    Google and Samsung used to update smartphone software for only three years. That has changed.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

  5. Hey, A.I. Let’s Talk

    Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

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  1. Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

    Travel-focused A.I. bots and more eco-friendly transportation options in online maps and search tools can help you quickly organize your seasonal getaway.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    Layla is one of the many travel-oriented online services that use artificial intelligence to help plan vacations and other trips.
    CreditLayla

  2. The Basics of Smartphone Backups

    It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    Backing up your iPhone, left, or Android phone can be automated so you don’t have to think about it until you need to restore lost files.
    CreditApple; Google

  3. Time-Saving Tips for Using Your Phone as a … Telephone

    The latest smartphone software includes tools to help you more easily connect with the people you want to contact — and avoid those you don’t.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    Apple’s Siri, shown here, and other virtual assistants can look up and call telephone numbers for you by voice command or tap.
    CreditApple

  4. How to Give Your Photos and Videos a Vintage Look

    Retro-photography apps that mimic the appearance of analog film formats make your digital files seem like they’re from another era.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    A sampling of retro-photography styles from the Hipstamatic and FIMO apps. The images were captured on either an iPhone 14 Pro Max or a Google Pixel 7 and then transformed with filters to give them all a vintage appearance.
    CreditSoftware by Hipstamatic (3) and FIMO; photographs by J.D. Biersdorfer

  5. How to Cut Down Your Screen Time but Still Get Stuff Done

    Google’s Routines and Apple’s Shortcuts combine multiple steps into one command to make your phone or tablet do more of the work for you.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    Apple's Shortcuts app for iPhone, iPad and Mac offers a collection of timesaving automation scripts for specific actions that you can run by voice, tap or tapping.
    CreditApple

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  1. Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.

    The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.

     By Kashmir Hill

    Robert Williams sued the city of Detroit after being wrongly identified by facial recognition technology and arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. His suit has led the police to change their practices.
    CreditSylvia Jarrus for The New York Times

  2. The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot

    Even as the technology advances, stubborn stereotypes about women are re-encoded again and again.

     By Amanda Hess

    CreditPetra Péterffy

  3. New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S.

    A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.

     By Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu

    CreditBing Guan for The New York Times

  4. Excerpt: Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade

    A look at defense technology and why Silicon Valley may be changing its tune about military work.

     Hosted By Kevin Roose and Casey NewtonProduced By Whitney Jones and Rachel CohnEdited By Larissa AndersonEngineered By Alyssa MoxleyWith Music By Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto

    CreditPhoto Illustration by The New York Times

  5. Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile

    Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness.

     By Emily Schmall

    Japanese researchers have used living skin cells to make to make a flexible 3D facial mold for a robot.
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