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Klarna plugs ChatGPT into its platform for faster product recommendations

Payments and shopping service Klarna is the latest company to announce its integration with ChatGPT . The company said it is “one of the first brands to work with OpenAI to use its protocol to build an integrated Plugin for ChatGPT ,” and is rolling out a personalized shopping experience that provides product recommendations when Klarna users ask for shopping advice, inspiration and product links via Klarna’s search and compare tool. Here’s how it works: Users install the Klarna plugin from the ChatGPT plugin store and then can ask ChatGPT questions. For example, “I have $150, which headphones can I afford?” and receive a selection of items relevant to that request. Users can also ask other questions or for more product recommendations. If users tap on the product link, they can also navigate to the product page on Klarna’s search and compare tool to compare prices across its 500,000 retail partners, the company said. “I’m super excited about our plugin with ChatGPT because it pa

TikTok CEO testifies before Congress

As the Biden administration escalates its threats against TikTok , the company’s chief executive made his first appearance before Congress on Thursday. Given the U.S. government’s aggressive recent posture, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was destined for a harsh turn under the glare of the government’s big, bright lights and that’s very much what played out across the hearing’s sprawling five hours. In opening statements, Chew offered reassurances that the company would safeguard the safety of minors, bolster its privacy and security practices and ward off any possibility of “unauthorized foreign access” to U.S. user data. “… I understand that there are concerns stemming from the inaccurate belief that TikTok’s corporate structure makes it beholden to the Chinese government or that it shares information about U.S. users with the Chinese government,” Chew said. “This is emphatically untrue.” Chew asserted that TikTok has never shared data on U.S. users with the Chinese government nor has it

Kids tech camp iD Tech still silent weeks after data breach

Parents are still looking for answers weeks after hackers stole the personal data of thousands of users from kids’ tech coding camp iD Tech, with some fearing that their children’s data was compromised in the data breach. iD Tech, which provides on-campus classes and online tech and coding courses for kids, has yet to acknowledge the breach or notify parents. News of the data breach broke in February after a hacker on a cybercrime forum claimed to have hacked iD Tech a month earlier on January 3. The hacker claimed to have stolen close to 1 million user records, including names, dates of birth, passwords stored in plaintext, and about 415,000 unique email addresses, which iD Tech did not dispute when reached by email. That can equate to each parent’s account having one or more kids in classes at the tech camp. Some parents only found out as recently as March 6 when data breach notification services like Have I Been Pwned obtained the data and sent out notifications to affected f

Scientists invent a "mirror" that temporally reverses electromagnetic waves

The mirror that the CUNY team built is not like the mirror in your bathroom but works similarly. So it helps to revisit light reflection to help understand the mechanics. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/GN56TrV via

Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion competitor, in public preview

Microsoft Loop, a Notion-like hub for managing tasks and projects that sync across Microsoft 365 apps and services, launched in public preview today. Loop is available to users with a Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory account. A companion app for iOS and Android is set to arrive soon; Microsoft didn’t provide firm timing. Unveiled at Ignite 2021, Loop is in some ways Microsoft’s answer to Google Workspace Spaces, which provides dashboards for real-time, digital-first project collaboration. As with most team-based productivity platforms, Loop has progress-tracking tools for projects and two-way sync with services including Trello. So what’s unique about it? Well, Loop consists of three main elements — Loop components, Loop pages and Loop workspaces — that together can be used to paste real-time blocks of content into apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Word. (My colleague Frederic Lardinois once compared the experience to the ill-fated Google Wave .) Microsoft says it’s

Formify wants to 3D print your next gaming mouse using a photo of your hand

From there, the mouse moves to the production phase where industrial grade multi jet fusion (MJF) 3D printing is used to create your pointer. The finished product will be shipped out in a timely manner, Formify promises, so you can get to gaming with "optimal precision and comfort." Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/cAL9X5f via

Lots of great robot vacuums are on sale for under $500 just in time for spring cleaning

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