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Researchers have shown that there is strong evidence that e-cigarette use may act as a gateway to cigarette smoking and other health issues in young people. A review of reviews has revealed that there ...

People are using AI to write sensitive messages to loved ones. Detecting AI-generated text is becoming more difficult as chatbots evolve. Some tech leaders have promoted this use of AI in their ...

Overwatch 2 players will be well familiar with how the text channels work across group chat, team chat, and match chat. However, anyone who has been playing during Season 17 may also have begun to ...

To utilize this function, simply open an image containing text using the Photos app. Next, select the “Scan text” option—represented by a rounded square icon with three horizontal lines—situated at ...

Microsoft has added an OCR function (Optical Character Recognition) to the Windows Photos app, which basically means it can now recognize text in an image and instantly extract it for you. To use this ...

No installation required — it runs as a standalone executable. Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his ...

This article was co-authored by Chelsey Church. When AI-generated content became more accessible, questions quickly followed: We needed to find out. By building a process that balances speed and ...

Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally ...