When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Will Siri Recap make the Apple Watch creepy? A new Siri AI feature lets newer Apple Watch models quietly listen in and deliver high-level summaries of your conversations. I've always thought of the Apple Watch as one of the friendliest and most helpful Apple devices, sitting on your wrist with a colorful watch face, telling the time, nudging you to get off your tush, gently tapping you (or not) with text alerts, and even sounding the alarm if it detects anything amiss with your heartbeat. But a new Siri AI feature, announced earlier this week during Apple's fall hardware event, could land unsuspecting Apple Watch users who enable the option into the middle of a heated AI privacy debate, according to several experts I spoke with.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Samples of DLSS 5 applied to games like NBA 2K27 and Resident Evil Requiem have raised concerns the graphical tech is basically a demanding AI algorithm that can yassify the look of games and interfere with the intent of game artists. But after trying it myself, I'm not so sure it's that big a deal...or that I have the willpower to stop using it. I don't know about you, but I was pretty leery of Nvidia's new DLSS 5 tech when we first started seeing samples of how it can change the appearance of games in real time. I didn't like the idea of Nvidia algorithmically injecting new details into my games that change the way they look, and I was afraid of the "yassifying" effect we saw it apply in titles like .

PCWorld tested the new Google Gemini app for Windows and found it falls short of expectations, lacking deep integration with Google services like Gmail and Google Drive. The app cannot perform basic tasks such as deleting emails or sorting files, making it less capable than competitors like ChatGPT. Overall, the Gemini Windows app currently offers limited practical value and may not be worth users' time in its present state. A few months ago, Google released the Gemini app for macOS as a one-stop shop for accessing Google content.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Right now, AOC's mini-LED display is $80 off at Amazon. We've been bullish on OLED monitor deals for the last year or so, but the floor for most of them seems to be around $350 for a 27-inch model. That's still a good chunk of change, and there are legit reasons to be anxious about OLED. If you'd rather go for an advanced mini-LED option, today you can pick one up for $249.99 at Amazon .

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This $40 Anker dock turns your laptop's USB-C port into 8 connections Anker's 8-in-1 laptop hub is $40 (was $54) at Amazon right now, offering dual 4K HDMI and 85W passthrough charging. If your laptop has just one or two ports and you're always swapping between them to plug in monitors, flash drives, keyboards, mice, and whatever else, you deserve to treat yourself with a proper docking solution. This Anker 8-in-1 Laptop Docking Station is $40 at Amazon, which is a 26% discount off its usual $54. Like any hub or dock, this one plugs into your laptop's USB-C port and turns it into a bunch of usable ports, but this one stands out for two reasons: it's eight full-blown connections, two of them 4K HDMI and one 85W USB-C Power Delivery.

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 11 wants your trust. Windows 11 has a habit of crying wolf. Users could get devoured by real threats as a result. Microsoft launched Windows 11 as the most secure Windows ever built--and the marketing was almost convincing at the time.

The technology raises concerns about whether AI-generated visuals preserve a developer's original artistic intent, with some users calling for a dedicated "developer intended" visual mode. According to PCWorld, AI upscaling is becoming essential as hardware costs rise, though the debate over visual accuracy versus performance remains unresolved. Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 is out this week, and it was a big topic of discussion in this week's episode of The Full Nerd. While I haven't had a chance to test it out myself, by the time you read this I'll be furiously updating my Nvidia drivers and seriously considering splurging on a copy of just to get a look at the earliest game to launch with official DLSS 5 support. I'm curious to see if the reported performance dips that come with enabling DLSS 5 are actually counteracted by Nvidia tech like Multi-Frame Generation, and I want to see what kind of tuning the player can do to adjust how DLSS 5's new real-time AI model upscales game graphics.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. AI helps kids do better in school. AI is already a fact of life in classrooms across the country, and studies indicate it may create as many problems as it solves. The best way for us grownups to prepare for AI is to use AI, I've frequently argued. But when it comes to the benefits of using AI, there are far more questions than answers.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. A single photo on the open web can share a lot of info with strangers. Some of them want to do harm to children. Kids having their very first day of school are absolutely adorable. As school starts, my social feeds have exploded with "first day of school" signboards photos.