Virtual reality improving seniors’ reality in Swampscott

SWAMPSCOTT — Staff at the Residence at Vinnin Square, an assisted-living facility for seniors on Salem Street, are using virtual reality headsets to detect early signs of memory loss and

Virtual reality helping Birmingham high school students learn job skills

A new virtual reality program is teaching around a hundred alabama high school students job skills so they can be ready for the workforce.

Hate passwords? You’re in luck – Google is sidelining them

Good news for all the password-haters out there: Google has taken a big step toward making them an afterthought by adding “passkeys” as a more straightforward and secure way to log into its services. Ultimately, passkeys could end racking your brain to recall complicated mnemonics or trusting password managers to cough up randomized strings of gobbledygook when you need them. Setting up passkeys isn't quite as simple as it could be, but it's not too bad. And living without passwords might be worth the trouble.

Blanka’s Street Fighter 6 Intro Is Extra AF

The electricity-wielding beast knows how to make an entrance

Discord is growing up, so everyone needs to pick a new username

Discord is dropping the four-digit suffix that followed each username.

Google I/O 2023 is next week; here’s what we’re expecting

Google I/O 2023 is next week; here’s what we’re expecting. New hardware, couple with a lot of AI and the best look yet at Android 14.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we may have AGI ‘in the next few years’

Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, said he believes that artificial general intelligence — human-level AI — would be possible in as little as “a few years.”

Google Chrome abandons HTTPS padlock for ‘tune’ icon

As blue check marks start showing up in Gmail

Even Gmail has blue verification checks now

Here's one blue check that's actually useful..

Big Tech turns up heat on California bill to make internet companies pay for news

Assemblyman Bill Essayli, R-Riverside, who joined as co-author of Oakland Democrat Buffy Wicks’ California Journalism Preservation Act, said “I do think Big Tech is being unjustly enric…