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  • Your Ultimate AI Glossary

    Your Ultimate AI Glossary

    This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk through how it can be useful (and how it can’t), and evaluate where this revolutionary tech is heading next. Read more here. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest tech buzzword. Just as the cryptocurrency boom introduced the world…


  • You Can’t Make Your Alexa Talk Like Samuel L. Jackson Anymore

    You Can’t Make Your Alexa Talk Like Samuel L. Jackson Anymore

    For the past several years, owners of Amazon Echo devices had the option of integrating celebrity “personalities” into the digital assistant Alexa, but the company is ditching the service. Very soon, you’ll no longer be able to ask Samuel L. Jackson to put your children to bed, say “Hey Melissa, tell me about Bridesmaids,” to…


  • How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It’s a Lot)

    How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It’s a Lot)

    Here’s a fun thought experiment; picture the amount of personal data you think tech companies keep on you. Now, realise it’s actually way more than that (hmm, maybe this isn’t that fun). Even as privacy and security become more talked about in consumer tech, the companies behind our favourite products are collecting more and more of…