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The Matter compatibility update starts rolling out today. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also oversees Tech Tips coverage. Before joining CNET, she covered app news for Download.com and served

Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock / quietbits) Google has released a patch that fixes three high-severity Android vulnerabilities, including one that is allegedly being exploited in the wild. Given that the flaws affect some of the newest versions of the famed mobile operating system, businesses are advised to patch their endpoints as soon as possible.Listing

When Google announced the launch of its Bard chatbot last month, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it came with some ground rules. An updated safety policy banned the use of Bard to “generate and distribute content intended to misinform, misrepresent or mislead.” But a new study of Google’s chatbot found that with little effort from a user, Bard will

Recent criticism about Google’s Bard sharing non-factual information and rumours around the use of ChatGPT to train Bard surfacing aren’t painting a good picture for Google, and CEO Sundar Pichai is now in damage control mode. Pichai has promised that upgrades to Bard are coming in the near future...

Ah. April Fools’ Day. The dreaded day when publishers like The Verge have to second guess every news story or potential tip that lands in our Gmail inbox. Thankfully, when it comes to deals, things are often exactly what they appear to be. Take today’s discount on Apple’s sixth-gen iPad Mini, which is currently matching

Back in 2021 I wrote that foldable phones were disappointing, offering little in the way of genuine innovation when it comes to how we use our phones on a daily basis. They're perfectly fine. But once you get over the novelty of a screen that bends, they're really just the same as any other Android

Should you ask a bot for business advice?Google soft-launched Bard last week, an AI product that gives text-based answers to queries a la ChatGPT. After gaining access, we wanted to put Bard to the test. What is Bard?After ChatGPT exploded onto the market in 2022 and became one of the first publicly available tools of

Plus: TikTok's preparing for its moment before Congress This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT—and it wants you to make it better Google has launched Bard, the search giant’s answer to OpenAI’s