Norman-area Briefs

With so many AI chatbots, choosing the right one for different tasks is challenging. Regardless of your pick, it'll excel in some areas and fall short in others, so I tested Meta AI to see its biggest strengths.

The NCOA estimates that Americans received 19.2 billion scam texts in 2024, which is about 63 fake texts per American per month. With phishing attacks via SMS growingknown as smishing attacksit's time to harness the power of a few helpful tools to prevent yourself from becoming a victim.

When you think of Google Slides, you probably only imagine something you can use to design slides for your many presentations. What you may not realize is that Google Slides is alsosurprisinglygreat for creating diagrams, whether it's flowcharts, Venn diagrams, or mind maps.

The unfortunate truth is that getting scammed on eBay is just as easy as actually selling something. As easy as selling on eBay is, you can learn some of the most common scams that sellers specifically encounter to avoid losing money when selling.

Are you tired of having six different remote controls on the living room coffee table? The SofaBaton X1S is a universal remote control for infrared remotes and a handful of Bluetooth devices that can probably reduce that number byhalf, if you're lucky. It's easy enough to add or program a simple infrared remotebut that just isn't enough in the modern smart home anymore.

Scams on eBay are a dime a dozen, and you've probably experienced your fair share. But I encountered a particularly simple and clever scam a while back, where the scammer got away so cleanly that I'm not even mad about it.