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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.
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 Apple has finally brought T9 dialing support to the iPhone with iOS 18, a feature long available on Android devices. This addition to the Phone app allows users to quickly find and call contacts using the number pad, which can streamline the process of making calls if you've used the feature before.
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Our list of the best Amazon deals below has been curated by PCWorld's tech experts, who collectively have been testing PC hardware for decades and have a razor-sharp sense of what products are worth buying and what deals offer the greatest value. We've checked Amazon pricing histories to ensure that all these deals are in fact offered at significant price reductions.
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Last updated on Sept. 27, 2024.
Top deals on mainstream laptops, Chromebooks, and tablets
Asus Chromebook C424, Celeron N4020/4GB RAM/128GB SSD,14-inch 1080p display, $179.99 (28% off at Amazon)
Lenovo Flagship 14-inch Chromebook, Kompanio 520/4GB RAM/64GB SSD, 14-inch 1080p display, $203.98 (10% off at Amazon)
HP Stream 14, includes 16GB of RAM and an Intel Celeron N4120 CPU, $309 ($90 off at Amazon)
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Advanced Voice isn't just "ChatGPT with text-to-speech" — it uses its underlying GPT-4o technology to analyze the tone and speed of your voice and pick up on non-verbal cues like body language, then itself responds with emotion in its own voice.
With five new voices, ChatGPT feels more alive than ever. The responses come faster so it feels like you're holding a real-time conversation, and the update improves accents in (certain) non-English languages. Other improvements include the ability to provide custom instructions with Advanced Voice and memory that persists through a conversation.
Advanced Voice is currently rolling out to all paid subscribers on ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Team plans, but it excludes users in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. (As of this writing, a subscription to ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month and grants access to special features like this along with faster response times.)
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Keith Sonderling, commissioner of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has for years been sounding the alarm about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to run afoul of federal anti-discrimination laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It was not until the advent of ChatGPT, Bard, and other popular generative AI tools, however, that local, state and national lawmakers began taking notice — and companies became aware of the pitfalls posed by a technology that can automate efficiencies in the business process.
Instead of speeches he'd typically make to groups of chief human resource officers or labor employment lawyers, Sonderling has found himself in recent months talking more and more about AI. His focus has been on how companies can stay compliant as they hand over more of the responsibility for hiring and other aspects of corporate HR to algorithms that are vastly faster and capable of parsing thousands of resumes in seconds.
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