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WhatsApp on Wednesday said it’s rolling out new features to group chats, including member tags, text stickers, and event reminders. With member tags, you can choose a name that gives others in the ...

A U.S. district judge ruled OpenAI must produce 20 million chat logs in litigation with the New York Times. The order affirms a pair of earlier rulings from a U.S. magistrate judge that OpenAI had ...

After a user’s age has been verified, they’ll be able to chat with others in similar age groups. After a user’s age has been verified, they’ll be able to chat with others in similar age groups. is a ...

Amazon is launching an Alexa.com website that allows some users to chat with its AI assistant via their browser. The company launched Alexa+ last February and it remains in early access. The website ...

Virginia Tech women's basketball wastes no time kicking off the new year as they play host to Miami. Both teams are looking to improve their 1-1 conference records at 6:00pm on ACCNX. The Hokies have ...

China has officially launched a national venture capital fund and three large regional funds, together worth billions of dollars, as part of a push to foster home-grown tech champions and improve ...

CHAT charges a higher expense ratio and is actively managed, while XLK is a large, low-cost index tracker with deep liquidity XLK’s portfolio is nearly pure technology, whereas CHAT blends big tech ...

CHAT has delivered a much stronger one-year return but at a significantly higher expense ratio than VGT VGT holds more stocks, is far larger and more liquid, and is less volatile than the concentrated ...

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), working with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General Services Administration (GSA), the White House Office of Science and Technology ...

A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account. David Welles ...