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OTR Backup 07/01/2024

Man uses photo of his hometown and genius workings out to prove Planet Earth isn't flat How to Make Google Maps Work for You While Traveling This Summer - CNET Error 4 reasons you should use Windows Sandbox to test new apps on your PC Microsoft's Copilot+ AI PCs aren't all that special right now, but there's one major reason why that's about to change | TechRadar Geekom launches yet another mini PC that makes it a little bit more difficult to justify buying a traditional desktop PC — AX8 Pro looks like Intel's legendary NUC but with an unbeli

OTR Backup 06/30/2024

Video: There would be no Canada without the beaver - The Globe and Mail 69 Riddles For Adults That'll Test Your Brain Power What is a passkey? Why Apple is betting on this password-free tech - Fast Company Make Your Phone Last Longer With These Easy Tips - CNET Google TV now offers over 130 built-in free channels 7 Apps You Probably Didn’t Know Were Tracking Your Location—And How To Disable It For Your Security - SHEfinds These 5 Ontario small towns and villages were just named among

OTR Backup 06/29/2024

20 Struggles Only People Who Grew Up Without Internet Addiction Will Understand - Because Mom Says Sir Paul McCartney's handsome grandson is dating Bill Gates' daughter and they make a striking couple | HELLO! Microsoft just recalled the latest Windows 11 update | Digital Trends How AI Can Save Teachers Time, According to a Google Executive Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Ars Technica AI Search: 5 New Ways to Search the Web Avril Lavigne, Stephen Poloz:

OTR Backup 06/28/2024

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 26th | The New Yorker This Google service is going away in September — take action now | Tom's Guide Proton VPN is now free to use without an account on Android I changed 10 settings on my Android phone to drastically improve battery life | ZDNET How To Wake Up At 5 Am - 13 Early Bird Hacks To Not Look Like A Zombie Wordle’s original name was Mr. Bugs’ Wordy Nugz - The Verge Tingting Zhang: Canada has tons of doctors—yet an alarming number of people hav

OTR Backup 06/27/2024

Did you know there is a Garfield themed Merriam-Webster dictionary? Why Google Chrome Is So Slow (And How To Make It Faster) Google just killed continuous scrolling results for desktop, and it's coming for mobile next 280 Million Google Chrome Users Installed Dangerous Extensions, Study Says Google was almost never called Google and its original name is creepy Closing science centre unnecessary, says firm of architect who designed building | CP24.com What Is ‘Pebbling’ and Why Are Te

OTR Backup 06/26/2024

Google introduces new AI tools for Workspace for Education These are the creepiest places you can only visit on Google Earth but 'should never search' Who's going to fix Toronto's electric vehicles | The Narwhal Conservative MP shares inaccurate, ChatGPT-generated stats on capital gains tax rate | CBC News Google is reportedly building AI chatbots based on celebrities and influencers What we know so far about the Harrow, Ont., family of 4 found dead at home | CBC News Sta

OTR Backup 06/25/2024

Don the Con Keeps Faking Out the Media - WhoWhatWhy Ex-Apple employee breaks down what your Internet browser says about you I went a week without using a case on my phone — here’s what I learned | Tom's Guide How to disable and remove Google Chrome extensions We’ve got to talk about the environment when we talk about AI - The Hustle Google’s NotebookLM is a great tool for adding AI to your notes - Fast Company ChatGPT and generative AI can't tell the truth

OTR Backup 06/24/2024

Cartoon: Vacation planning - Powell River Peak How To Use Google Lens On Your PC I Tried YouTube's Playables: Here's Why They're Not Worth Your Time Asked to Summarize a Webpage, Perplexity Instead Invented a Story About a Girl Who Follows a Trail of Glowing Mushrooms in a Magical Forest Typing to AI assistants might be the way to go - The Verge 12 Beautiful Castles in Spain That Look Like They’re Straight Out of a Storybook These 8 Useful Top Of The Line Gadgets Are So Budge

OTR Backup 06/23/2024

7 prompts to get the most out of Microsoft Copilot | Tom's Guide Fans rejoice as Edmonton Oilers win Game 6 in Stanley Cup final | CBC News Why the rule of space is so powerful in photography composition AI Can’t Write a Good Joke, Google Researchers Find - Decrypt How We Interact With Technology Has Fundamentally Changed - GREY Journal I Curated the Perfect List of Free Adobe Software Alternatives 75 Things to Get Rid of For a Happier You!

OTR Backup 06/22/2024

For our kids’ safety, cell phones should be banned from classrooms | The Seattle Times How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI Journalists Are Accusing the Perplexity AI Chatbot of Stealing Their Work | Lifehacker 5 Essential Settings You Need to Tweak Before Posting Your Smartphone Photos The best space and astronomy Google Doodles - BBC Sky at Night Magazine Perplexity AI is Twitter Minus the Drama – AIM There's Something Deeply Wrong With Perplexity

OTR Backup 06/21/2024

Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports to deliver cartoon antics this September Google DeepMind creates AI model that can add sound to silent videos | Tom's Guide What Happened to People Magazine? - by Anne Helen Petersen Apple Could Be Fined A Billion Dollars A Day AI and ads, Google's two favorite things, take targeted marketing to creepy new heights Goodbye awkward change rooms, hello to private stalls at this London high school | CBC News 4 keys to writing modern Python | InfoWo

OTR Backup 06/20/2024

The contortions of the MAGA mind | The Seattle Times Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company - The Verge How to Take Full Control of Your Notifications on a Chromebook | Lifehacker Play Google's Cricket Game to Help Your Country Win the T20 World Cup ChatGPT, Gemini, and the most popular AI tools right now Harvard-trained social scientist did acts of kindness for 108 days "Harvard-trained social scientist: This 108-day experiment I did in college made my life ‘better in just about every way’"

OTR Backup 06/19/2024

The Scooby-Doo Anime Is Real And This Should Have Happened Years Ago | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT Why is the tech industry up in arms about Google's search algorithm leak? | The Week AI Has Done Terrible Things to Image Searching - InsideHook Is Content Really Still King? Swifties danced so hard it triggered earthquake readings three nights in a row - The Weather Network U.S. surgeon general wants warning labels on social media platforms | CBC News You.com startup targets AI assistants mark

OTR Backup 06/18/2024

Today's political cartoons - June 16, 2024 | The Week Can your PC or Mac run on-device AI? This handy new Opera tool lets you find out | TechRadar Best AI Music Generators You Can Use Right Now All the iOS 18 features that are already on Android - Android Authority 10 Free Apps Every iPhone User Should Have Installed Boats catch fire in Port Stanley | CTV News Google Chrome Will Track You For The Next 200 Days—Then It May Get Worse

OTR Backup 06/17/2024

June 15 editorial cartoon Samsung Galaxy A55 Review: This Cheap Phone Has Some Key Misses - CNET How Gemini Nano will work in Google Chrome Did Apple just Sherlock our favorite password managers? - The Verge 8 Strangest Things Found On Google Earth In America Former Google engineer partners with scientists to create groundbreaking tool to 'spy' on beavers: 'It's really exciting' $1 million Toronto house may look like a concrete bunker but it's adorable inside

OTR Backup 06/16/2024

If you don't love Bluey this could be why, according to a child therapist (and it's pretty surprising) | GoodtoKnow 7 antivirus myths that are dead wrong | PCWorld I Used macOS for Years. Here’s Why I Prefer Ubuntu These 4 Classic Linux Tools Have Better Modern Alternatives This New Programming Langauge Makes Bash Scripting Easier The End of Homeownership - Macleans.ca Is lossless audio worth it? “Smo

OTR Backup 06/15/2024

The Cartoon Cat Driving China Censors Mad | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT "We’ve never been more excited about the future of ChromeOS.": Here's how Google plans to rapidly deploy Google AI updates to Chromebooks | Laptop Mag Firefox is on track to support Chrome's new extensions in time for the death of Manifest V2 Google AI Overviews Can Produce Medical Misinformation - IEEE Spectrum Man searching own neighborhood on Google Earth solved 22-year missing person mystery Quiz: Google news from May

OTR Backup 06/14/2024

70 New One-Panel Comics Filled With Humor And Silly Situations By ‘Laughing Hippo Studio’ | Bored Panda How Apple's Safari Highlights Compares With Google's AI Overviews - CNET Looking for ChatGPT alternatives? Try these 5 services that might be better for your needs | Laptop Mag I tried Google's new AI alphabet generator, and it's way more fun than it sounds | ZDNET Russia's largest tech company just released a free AI tool that could save Microsoft, Google and Facebook tens of millions of dollars | TechRadar I tried Tim Hortons newest cookies a

OTR Backup 06/13/2024

This Biology Professor Creates Silly Cartoons, And They Are Hilarious On A Molecular Level (52 Pics) | Bored Panda How to use ChatGPT in Arc Browser on MacOS | ZDNET You Should Browse With Incognito More Often: Here’s Why Jobs on the line as Windsor-Essex public school trustees vote on budget options | CBC News Is Windsor a nice place for a honeymoon? These newlyweds from Michigan sure think so | CBC News 10 Most Scenic Roads in Canada | NUVO Wedding Photographer Uses Thunderstorm as Epi

OTR Backup 06/12/2024

40 Lighthearted Comics By This Artist That Turn Slightly Dark At The End (New Pics) | Bored Panda Doodle for Google announces 2024 national finalists Google Maps AR offers the ultimate walk-through Singapore’s Maxwell Food Centre 6 Open-Source LLMs That Can Run on Smartphones First Google Pixel Watch 3 renders surface revealing refined design | Android Central People gobsmacked after learning what Google actually stands for after 26 years - Mirror Online Meet Whisper Web — a new and free

OTR Backup 06/11/2024

Teacher Li: The hunt for the cartoon cat vexing China's censors How YouTube Became One of the Most Important Sites Ever | No Film School 7 of my favorite Google Chrome features that keep me using the browser The Google app's Hum to Search interface is getting a cool new animation Brave says May 2024 was its biggest growth month ever 7 Google TV secrets you didn't know you needed | Tom's Guide Find My Device network is available to roughly half of Android users

OTR Backup 06/10/2024

Free AI Tools: The Full List of over 5,000 AI sites | 2024 | Aixploria This classic answer engine still outsmarts AI chatbots - Fast Company Take note Microsoft – Google's Chromebook shows how AI in PCs should be done | TechRadar What to Expect from the Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9N Pro and 9 Pro XL - Geeky Gadgets Someone in Colorado Town is putting up the funniest signs - Scoop Upworthy Aging: 7 Psychological and Physical Habits of People Who Age Well | TIME 8 'secret' Windows 1

OTR Backup 06/09/2024

Political Cartoons That Enraged Readers Google Will Track Your Location For The Next 180 Days—Then It Stops Will Apple's AI Finally Make Siri Smart? | PCMag Acer Chromebook Plus 516 GE review: A bit weird, but still great | PCWorld Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election | WIRED People in Toronto wondering about mysterious black boxes spotted around the city Toronto pizzaria responds after former employee calls for boycott of workplace in TikTo