Treat your tax prep like a professional project with Adobe Acrobat

This post is brought to you in paid partnership with Adobe We optimize our morning routines, our fitness regimens, and our investment portfolios, yet many of us still approach tax season like a ...
Business Times

Private organisations still using NRIC numbers for authentication may face sanctions from 2027

[SINGAPORE] Private organisations that have not phased out the use of NRIC numbers for authentication will risk breaching the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) from Jan 1, 2027. In a statement on ...
Santa Clara University

Words Matter: Illegal Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, or Unauthorized Immigrant?

Jonathan Kwan (@migrationethics) is the Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. What term should we use to ...
TechCrunch

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of ...
The Verge

Adobe Acrobat uses AI to turn your PDFs into podcasts

Acrobat Studio users can edit docs with AI chat prompts, or summarize them as podcasts and presentations. Acrobat Studio users can edit docs with AI chat prompts, or summarize them as podcasts and ...
The Guardian

‘Gifted learner dogs’ can learn words by eavesdropping, study says

Certain canines can learn using cues from people’s gaze, gestures, attention and voices, researchers find Whether it is a piece of food or a four-letter expletive, words can be learned by young ...
Los Angeles Times

Here’s how Trump gets away with using dubious numbers

Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump’s use of words — that is, his peculiar style of oratory. But more attention should be paid to another feature of his discourse: his use of numbers.
Times Union

Some politicians think using profanity makes them ‘relatable’

Albany politicians are swearing a lot. Experts say use of blunt language is an attempt to seem relatable and shape an image. Gov. Kathy Hochul grabbed headlines in November for saying that North ...
Nature

‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world. Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain ...
NPR

Energy Dept. tells employees not to use words including 'climate change' and 'green'

The Department of Energy has told employees to avoid using certain words, including "climate change," "green" and "sustainable," according to an internal email sent to staff and obtained by NPR. The ...
Geeky Gadgets

Microsoft Excel’s Latest AI Trick : Say Goodbye to Manual Data Entry

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...