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  1. Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted

    Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

  2. This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone

    The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.

     By Brian X. Chen and Andri Tambunan

    The Humane A.I. Pin.
    CreditAndri Tambunan for The New York Times

  3. Switching From iPhone to Android Is Easy. It’s the Aftermath That Stings.

    Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditAriel Davis

  4. Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.

    What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.

     By Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac

    Brian X. Chen, left, and Mike Isaac, reporters for The New York Times, trying out Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses.
    CreditAaron Wojack for The New York Times

  5. Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends: Lessons From Roku

    Roku recently changed its policy to make it even harder for customers to take legal action. It’s a reminder of how we need to protect ourselves.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Finding the Fun Side of Software Updates for the iPhone and Android

    As the year winds down, take the time to explore iOS 17 and Android 14 with new wallpaper and widgets or by creating a digital diary.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    The Standby mode in iOS 17 turns a charging iPhone at rest into a smart display with your favorite apps for music, photos and more.
    CreditApple

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  1. ‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

    The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

     By Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur

    More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.
    CreditIman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

  2. TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?

    For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

     By Cecilia Kang

    Experts on tech legislation say that the unique speed of the passage of the TikTok legislation is highly unlikely to be repeated.
    CreditHaiyun Jiang for The New York Times

  3. There Is No TikTok in China, but There Is Douyin. Here’s What It Is.

    ByteDance owns both TikTok and Douyin, and although TikTok has more users around the world, Douyin is the company’s cash cow and a China mainstay.

     By Claire Fu and Daisuke Wakabayashi

    The Douyin app in 2021. Douyin is a staple of the Chinese internet the way TikTok is in the rest of the world.
    CreditYan Cong/Bloomberg

  4. Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

    Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

     By Mike Isaac

    Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.
    CreditIan C. Bates for The New York Times

  5. Alphabet’s Revenue Jumps 15% to $80.5 Billion

    Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.

     By Nico Grant

    In the last year, Google has incorporated A.I. into nearly every facet of its product portfolio.
    CreditJohn Taggart for The New York Times
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