We tried the ChatGPT reverse location search trend, and its scary
ChatGPT users have discovered that the popular AI chatbot can serve as a reverse-location search tool. In other words, you can show ChatGPT a picture, and it can pretty reliably tell you where it was taken. The trend is inspired by the online game Geoguessr, where folks try to figure out a location from a simple web image. We decided to put this new ChatGPT trend to the test, and the results were downright scary. Mashable tech reporters prompted ChatGPT to play a geo-guessing game and uploaded a series of photos.
How Instagram is using AI to uncover teen accounts lying about their age
If your teen has a fake birthday on their Instagram profile to get around age restriction policies, their days of beating the system may soon be over. In a blog post, Instagram says that starting today it will use AI to detect users lying about their age and automatically move those accounts to one of the limited teen accounts that debuted last fall. First, it will monitor which profiles and content an account interacts with. Since people in the same age range generally enjoy similar content and interact with each other, if a nonโteen account interacts heavily with teen accounts and teenโrelated content, Meta may flag that account. Second, Meta will review what it calls "strong signals of age," or things like birthday messages -- for example, if another user posts something like "Screaming happy 15th birthday to my best friend."
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Aiper Scuba X1 review: If looks could clean your pool
The Aiper Scuba X1 looks--and is priced--like a high-end robotic pool cleaner, but it's a weak performer and it's a bear to clean after a session in the pool. Aiper makes some excellent robotic pool cleanrs--such as its stellar workhorse, the Seagull Pro--but it also has a few duds in its arsenal, including the Seagull Plus and the Scuba S1. With its latest robot, the Scuba X1, Aiper looks to bring some higher-end features (including smart connectivity) to the lineup. With a street price of 1,200, it's one of Aiper's most expensive modelsโand it's got the gold trim to prove it. The Aiper Scuba X1 doesn't change the basic design that most of Aiper's full-size robots have followed for years: Compare its design to the aforementioned Seagull Pro, Seagull Plus, and Scuba S1.
When Google and ChatGPT translated my image text, one failed - and the other got weird
One of the fun aspects of my roles as technical columnist and YouTube producer is testing new gadgets as they come out. I've been testing an Anycubic Kobra 3 3D printer for a while now, which led to this article. An unfortunate new trend is that most of the bigger 3D printer companies have taken an open-source slicer called Orca Slicer and rebranded it for their own use, adding machine-specific code to enable printing with their printers. Also: This ChatGPT trick can reveal where your photo was taken - and it's unsettling Anycubic did this with their Anycubic Slicer Next, which substantially improved their previous home-grown slicer. Anycubic is based in China.
Anthropic's Claude AI reportedly getting two-way voice mode soon
According to Bloomberg, AI startup Anthropic is about to release a voice mode for Claude. Currently, it's only possible to communicate with the Claude AI assistant via text, and adding voice mode would bring it up to parity with other advanced AIs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Sesame. Claude's voice mode will initially only be available in English, with three different voice modes named "Airy," "Mellow," and "Buttery." According to Bloomberg, Claude's voice mode could be released as early as April, but it will initially be rolled out to a limited number of users. Anthropic hasn't yet commented on Claude's voice mode.
Trump wants to revive the lagging US shipbuilding industry. Here are the hurdles he faces
President Donald Trump is turning his attention to the U.S. shipbuilding industry, which is leagues behind its near-peer competitor China, and recently signed an executive order designed to reinvigorate it. Trump's April 10 order instructs agencies to develop a Maritime Action Plan and orders the U.S. trade representative to compile a list of recommendations to address China's "anticompetitive actions within the shipbuilding industry," among other things. Additionally, the executive order instructs a series of assessments regarding how the government could bolster financial support through the Defense Production Act, the Department of Defense Office of Strategic Capital, a new Maritime Security Trust Fund, investment from shipbuilders from allied countries and other grant programs. But simply throwing money at the shipbuilding industry won't solve the problem, according to Bryan Clark, director of the Hudson Institute think tank's Center for Defense Concepts and Technology. "It is unlikely that just putting more money into U.S. shipbuilding โ even with foreign technical assistance โ will make U.S. commercial shipbuilders competitive with experienced and highly-subsidized shipyards in China, Korea, or Japan," Clark said in a Monday email to Fox News Digital.
This Roomba robot vacuum and mop is 46 percent off right now
The Roomba Y0140 robot vacuum and mop combo unit is on sale for 149 via Amazon. This represents a discount of 46 percent, as it typically costs 250. It's rare we see robots that can vacuum and mop at this price point. The Y0140 is actually a combo version of the vacuum-only Q0120, which topped our list of the best robot vacuums on a budget. We loved the iconic design and the surprisingly-robust suction power.
Trump risks leaving behind a legacy of failure in Ukraine
A day before Easter, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire for the Christian holiday. Like other Russian promises, this one was broken too. Ukrainian media reported Russian drone attacks, shelling and firefights across the front lines. Ukrainian civilians were also targeted. This ceasefire that wasn't came on the tail of another one: a 30-day ceasefire that was supposed to cover energy infrastructure.
My two favorite AI apps on Linux - and how I use them to get more done
When AI first hit the scene in its current form, I was dead set against it because of the generative nature of what was being sold to the public. I considered any shortcut to creating art to be offensive to the craft. But then I realized I could use AI for something that traditional searching was starting to fail at: Research. Also: Claude AI can do your research and handle your emails now - here's how With both sides of my writing career (fiction and nonfiction), I have to do quite a bit of research, and Google was becoming a hindrance to that process. Instead of being fed helpful information, I was inundated with ads, sponsored content, and its own AI-based answers (which were rarely helpful).