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james.laird
James Laird is a technology journalist with 10+ years experience working on some of the world's biggest websites. These include TechRadar, Trusted Reviews, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and The Sun, as well as industry-specific titles such as ITProPortal. His particular areas of interest and expertise are cyber security, VPNs and general hardware.
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How to Disable Google Ad Tracking in Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox The easiest ways to turn off ad tracking in Google Chrome now its new Topics API and Privacy Sandbox are rolling out widely.james.laird -
How To Install and Use ChatGPT Plugins Like Canva Graphic design tool Canva now has a ChatGPT plugin, making it easier than ever to generate visuals for social media and more.james.laird -
Salesforce and IBM Are Now Friends With AI Benefits In a major enterprise deal, Salesforce and its AI tools will now be offered as part of IBM's Garage consultancy product.james.laird -
OpenAI Prompts Teachers To Use ChatGPT at School This Year OpenAI has released a new "Teaching with AI" guide designed to help teachers embrace ChatGPT in the new academic year.james.laird -
How To Stop Facebook Using Your Personal Data To Train AI A new Facebook privacy option lets you ask the social network not to use your data to train AI. Here's where to find it.james.laird -
Top Android Phones Set to Pack Serious AI Power in 2024 New chipset announcements from MediaTek and Qualcomm point to AI featuring heavily on next year's Android flagships.james.laird -
Tesla’s Value Crashes by $200bn (But Elon Musk’s Fake Followers Don’t Care) Elon Musk's sometimes trivial recent troubles have been compounded by a much more serious one: Tesla's tumbling value.james.laird -
Amazon and Venmo Phone Scams Still on Fraudster Speed Dial New report highlights prevalence of Amazon and Venmo phone scams, as well as reminding us AI is the future of fraud.james.laird -
Slack’s Redesign Has 6 New Features You’re Actually Going To Love Slack is getting its biggest overhaul in years and these are the best new features coming to the appjames.laird -
Google Takes Wildly Different Stances on AI “Deepfakes” and Web Scraping Google is willing to compensate musical artists for AI reproductions, but believes web content should be fair game, for free.james.laird -
New Study Suggests Facebook May Actually Improve Your Mental Health The review found no evidence linking Facebook to psychological harm, but it's more complicated than that.james.laird -
Fake Salesforce Email Used to Bait Facebook Phishing Trap Emails sent from seemingly genuine "@salesforce.com" accounts targeted Facebook users in high-profile phishing campaign.james.laird