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ai1 day ago•148 min saved

Tell ChatGPT About You: 7 Personal Details for Smarter Answers

A Tom's Guide feature explains seven personal details to share with ChatGPT to get better, more tailored answers: your goals, your AI tool expertise, how you’d like responses delivered, your constraints (budget, time, etc.), your hobbies/interests, the intended context for the information, and privacy boundaries. It also emphasizes avoiding sensitive data, and offers a reusable prompt approach to help ChatGPT build a useful personal profile while safeguarding privacy.

via Tom's Guide|

#ai #chatgpt #personalization

technology4 days ago•3 min saved

Google Expands Personalization Across Search, Discover & News with New Button, NL Controls, and Audio Briefings

Google is rolling out three personalization features: an embeddable Preferred Sources button that returns readers to publishers, upcoming natural-language Discover controls to tailor feeds, and customizable topic-based audio briefings in the Google News app, expanding user control across Search, Discover, and News.

via Search Engine Journal|

#discover #google #news

technology4 days ago•28 min saved

Google Discover gets an AI chat to tailor your feed

Google Discover will soon let you describe what you want to see through a chatbot-style interface in the Google app, with the AI remembering your preferences for future visits and updating your feed when you refresh. The rollout is in coming days, and Google is also rolling out related personalization features like AI-powered daily audio briefings and a new Preferred Sources option.

via The Verge|

#ai #discover #google

technology15 days ago•4 min saved

Roku’s Major Home Screen Update: How to Restore the Classic App Grid

Roku’s late-May 2026 home screen redesign emphasizes content discovery with AI-driven recommendations, a prominent Top Picks for You row, and a Quick Access panel, plus a collapsible left menu and smaller app tiles. While Roku doesn’t offer a full revert, users can disable the Recommended rows and Quick Access and set Tile size to Large to approximate the classic 3×3 app grid, with changes taking effect immediately.

via | Cord Cutters News|

#home-screen #personalization #roku

business16 days ago•4 min saved

Coca-Cola’s Custom Can Tool Sparks Inconsistent Moderation, Backlash

A Fox Business investigation finds Coca-Cola’s 18-character can-personalization tool inconsistently blocks religious and political phrases (e.g., 'Jesus is Lord', 'Make America Great') while allowing others like 'Defund the Police' and 'Proud Boys'; alarms rise after reports that 'Pedophile Pride' and 'MAP Pride' were permitted. Coca‑Cola says the issue is technical, has paused new orders, and is reviewing moderation rules.

via New York Post|

#business #censorship #coca-cola

technology17 days ago•10 min saved

Taming Gemini: Five tweaks to mimic Google Assistant

Lifehacker suggests five practical tweaks to make Gemini behave more like the old Google Assistant: set Gemini as the default across your Google Home/Nest devices, minimize personalization by turning off nonessential connected apps, use Instructions for Gemini to create custom shorthand commands, leverage Scheduled Actions to replace routines, and pick the fastest model (disable Extended thinking) where available for faster responses.

via lifehacker.com|

#gemini #google-assistant #personalization

finance23 days ago•15 min saved

Ferrari Q2: Personalization and New Models Drive Momentum

Ferrari reported Q2 revenue €1.94B, EBITDA €755M, and industrial free cash flow €275M, boosted by a richer model mix and a personalization push now representing over 20% of cars and spare-parts revenue. The order book extends through 2027, and management raised full-year guidance as Ferrari launches the electric Luce and the limited-edition 12Cilindri Manuale. Higher costs are expected in the second half (SG&A, R&D, depreciation), while U.S. deliveries were softer due to model transitions and longer personalization lead times, with stronger growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa."

via Yahoo Finance|

#earnings #ferrari #finance

technology25 days ago•9 min saved

Chrome for Android adds personalized New Tab with auto-refresh themes

Chrome for Android now includes an Appearance menu that lets you customize the New Tab page with your own background image, preset color themes, curated wallpaper collections, and an option to auto-refresh the look daily, rolling out with the latest Chrome update.

via Android Authority|

#android #chrome #google-chrome

technology1 month ago•2 min saved

Google Images unveils a browsable, personalized pre-search feed

Google will roll out a new browseable Google Images homepage that shows a dynamic, personalized image feed before you search, with real-time updates and user-created collections. The feature is set to roll out in coming weeks for signed-in desktop users in the US (English). In a separate update, Google previewed AI Overviews in Google Search using its Nano Banana 2 Lite model to generate images from prompts like 'visualize' or 'create a visual,' though details on prompts and safeguards are still emerging.

via The Verge|

#ai #google #google-images

lifestyle1 month ago•11 min saved

L.L.Bean's Classic Boat Tote Finds a New Workwear Twist

Across professions, women are turning L.L.Bean's Boat and Tote into personalized work bags, embroidering job-related phrases like 'Sue me!' or 'hands full' to reflect their careers; embroidery is widespread (over 80% of orders include it), with bags customizable in size, handles, colors, and text, making a durable, timeless tote a bespoke status symbol as personalization and professional identity trend upward.

via Business Insider|

#boatandtote #embroidery #lifestyle

technology2 months ago•2 min saved

Instagram Introduces Topic-Based Personalization for Its Main Feed

Instagram expanded its algorithm personalization to the main feed, letting users select topics they want more or less of; however requests to see more posts from people they follow currently error, underscoring a focus on recommendations, while Meta's Adam Mosseri says the feature—enabled by large language models—gives users more agency and hints at deeper or bespoke personalization in the future.

via Engadget|

#algorithm #feed #instagram

tech2 months ago•37 min saved

Instagram puts you in the driver's seat of your feed

Instagram is launching 'Your Algorithm' for the main feed, letting users see the topics the app thinks they’re interested in and tweak them—potentially including moods and content types—as Adam Mosseri says the goal is to give people real control over what they see and lay the groundwork for broader, AI-assisted customization.

via The Verge|

#ai #algorithm #instagram

technology2 months ago•3 min saved

Xbox Insider Update Elevates Personalization, Social Discovery, and Energy Savings

Xbox Insiders can test features to personalize Home and My Games & Apps with richer artwork and cleaner views, see mutual friends on profiles (privacy settings permitting) to ease connections, add upcoming games to a wishlist directly from the Game Card, and switch to a Shutdown (energy-saving) power option that significantly reduces off-state power use without affecting updates, with streamlined navigation and feedback channels.

via XBOX Wire|

#energy-saving #gaming #personalization

technology2 months ago•3 min saved

Xbox Insider Preview expands personalization with color codes, controller preview, and on-console status

Microsoft’s latest Xbox Insider Preview adds broader personalization (hex color codes and a “match my gamerpic” color picker), shows the connected controller in the Accessories app, provides quick access to post-update release notes, adds an on-console Xbox Service Status indicator, and invites feedback via Xbox Player Voice as Insider testing continues toward wider rollout.

via XBOX Wire|

#accessories #personalization #technology

streaming2 months ago•48 min saved

YouTube lets you craft a personalized video feed using AI prompts

YouTube is rolling out an AI-powered feature in the US that lets signed-in users describe videos they want to watch via a 'Your custom feed' tab to generate a personalized video feed pinned to the homepage. Prompts can be edited to refresh the space, and access requires English-language support with search and watch history enabled; users can report issues if the feed gets things wrong.

via The Verge|

#ai #feed #personalization