Scarcely a month after rolling out a beta release, Microsoft has officially launched Windows Live Messenger, and aims to loot some interest from consumers by rolling in an exclusive game based on the Disney Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Windows Live Messenger: Arr, matey!
Windows Live Messenger (ahem) aims to go a few steps beyond what we’ve all come to think of as instant messaging by rolling in free PC-to-PC calling and inexpensive PC-to-phone calling around the world (a laSkype), as well as provide users easy ways to share photos, files, video, and more. Microsoft Live Messenger is also designed to operate seamlessly with cordless phones developed by companies like Uniden, Philips, and Motorola
In 1950, Alan Turing asked whether machines can think. Rather than argue over definitions, he turned the question into a party game, where an interrogator trades typed messages with hidden players and tries to work out who is who. Since then, chatbots have gotten so good that they have already fooled humans in modern versions of the test.
So, four researchers from Paris Cité University asked the obvious follow-up question in a new study published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports: can AI at least catch its own kind?
Mozilla is giving Firefox’s Smart Window two new tricks. If you haven’t tried it yet, Smart Window is an optional AI mode in Firefox with a built-in chat that helps you get things done while you browse. With this update, it can fill out online forms using details from your tabs and keep an eye on websites for you.
Tired of typing the same details into every form?
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.