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Cowboy’s new all-road e-bike adds suspension and a much bigger battery
20 Mar

Cowboy’s new all-road e-bike adds suspension and a much bigger battery

John RoutledgeLatest News
Like many premium electric rides, Cowboy's e-bikes make short commutes easier, especially those involving hills or a lot of stop-start traffic. Its latest bike is an attempt to address another challenge: comfort. The Cowboy Cross is the company’s first “all-road” model, with thicker, bigger tires, seat suspension, inverted fork suspension and a substantially bigger battery for more extended trips—or simply…
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Meta previews ‘fediverse sharing’ for Threads
20 Mar

Meta previews ‘fediverse sharing’ for Threads

John RoutledgeLatest News
Meta is continuing its slow march toward compatibility with the fediverse. The company has been experimenting with making posts from a handful of accounts available on Mastodon since the end of last year. Now, it’s offered a brief preview of how the integration works and what it might look like once more people have the ability to share from Threads…
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Fitbit’s health chatbot will arrive later this year
19 Mar

Fitbit’s health chatbot will arrive later this year

John RoutledgeLatest News
Like most other corners of the tech world, Google sees AI powering the next innovations in health technology. The company’s annual The Check Up event expanded on its plans to add a personal health chatbot to the Fitbit app, expand Google Lens for better skin condition searches and use a version of its Gemini chatbot in the medical field.One of…
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Microsoft hires DeepMind cofounder to lead its new consumer AI division
19 Mar

Microsoft hires DeepMind cofounder to lead its new consumer AI division

John RoutledgeLatest News
Microsoft now has a lone leader overseeing consumer AI for the first time. DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman is joining the company from rival Inflection AI. Suleyman will try to push the consumer-facing Copilot assistant into the future, preparing for what may be a long battle with Google for artificial intelligence supremacy among Silicon Valley’s Big Five companies.Suleyman’s official title will…
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Meta is finally rolling out trending topics on Threads
19 Mar

Meta is finally rolling out trending topics on Threads

John RoutledgeLatest News
Meta is finally providing a bit of visibility into what kinds of conversations are happening on its Twitter competitor, Threads. The service is rolling out its “trending now” feature to all US users, Mark Zuckerberg said in a post.The feature, which the company began testing in February, uses AI to surface a handful of topics “based on what people are…
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