Here's a novel way to help you control your screen time: The Touch Grass iOS app will lock distracting apps until you literally walk outside and take a photo of some grass. It uses AI to determine what you're actually photographing, so you can't fool it with an indoor plant or even an outdoor bush. Here's [@Techcrunch](
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If you've ever spent way too long scrolling through endless feeds about nothing, you may have been advised to touch grass. It's a tongue-...
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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
Google's crackdown on data scrapers triggered immediate disruptions across the marketing landscape, particularly for organizations whose business models depend on SEO. The move represents the latest evolution in the ongoing battle between major websites and data scrapers. Read more at [@TechRadar](
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Zoomโ€™s AI Companion is getting an โ€œagenticโ€ upgrade. Workplace users will be able to access the feature within a new tab, where they can have AI schedule follow-up meetings, generate documents from meetings, and create video clips. Read more at [@theverge](
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Tech writer Paul Hatton had never really been into flight tracking. Until he started using Flightrader24. โ€œThe first time I opened up the app, I was flabbergasted by how many planes were up in the sky. It looked like they were all going to crash into each other! I have newfound respect for air traffic controllers.โ€ Read more at [@TechRadar](
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Homescreen Heroes: Flightradar24 is a real-time flight tracker that you have to see to believe
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One of us who works at the tech desk may have eaten five pieces of pizza last night โ€” without any awareness of the total calories. It might have been a good opportunity to use Cal AI, an app where users can upload a photo of their meal and receive a calorie count that has a purported 90% accuracy. Cal AI isnโ€™t the first digital calorie counter, but it has a 4.8-star rating on the Apple App Store and over 1 million downloads on Google Play. [@Techcrunch](
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Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers | TechCrunch
Cal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18.
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What determines if a specific TV has good overall value? Sound? Features? Your kids started rolling around on the floor at Target and you just had to take the first one you saw? Al Griffin reviews televisions for [@TechRadar](
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Starting on March 28, Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazonโ€™s cloud. In other words, everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon. [@ArsTechnica](
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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
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Some DeepSeek employees have been prevented from traveling abroad and the Chinese government is now playing a role in screening potential investors. Read more at [@Techcrunch](
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