The FutureTECH Show/The Presenter Studio Waseem Mirza wanted his phone to run for longer Actor and presenter Waseem Mirza was not happy when he realised he would have to change his phone – particularly as it was working just fine. Although the hardware was running smoothly, Samsung ended security updates for the phone in 2020….

Getty Images Iceland is one of the world’s most volcanically active places I’m in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano’s crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away. Krafla has erupted around…

Chipotle Mexican Grill job applicants better get used to conversing with AI — their first interview could be with an artificial intellgence-powered system named “Ava Cado” rather than a human hiring manager.  The fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain said Tuesday that it is partnering with Paradox, a maker of what the technology company calls “conversational” AI,…

Both Confortini and Lamarre post about personal finance topics on TikTok (surveys show that most Gen Z consumers turn to social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram for financial advice) and both have talked about paying rent on their credit card on the platform. Neither of them works with Bilt, although they can earn points…

This comes a few days after Twitter announced that legacy verified accounts will lose their blue checkmark starting April 1 unless they sign up for paid Twitter Blue. At the same time, Twitter is working on a way for paid subscribers to hide their blue checks, presumably because it might seem embarrassing to have one…

AI is coming to town this holiday season — and soda lovers aren’t feeling festive about it. Coca-Cola is receiving backlash online after creating an AI-generated Christmas commercial, which has been slammed as a “creepy dystopian nightmare.” Paying homage to Coca-Cola’s 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” campaign, the new, 15-second advert depicts a fleet of cherry red…