SATURDAY, 18 MAY 2024, 06:04
samleecole writes: For the last decade, farmers have been warning that John Deere, a company celebrated by farmers, country musicians, and politicians, has been doing something else very American: Concentrating power, stripping away the ownership rights of people who buy their products, and adding a bevy of artificial, software-based repair restrictions that have effectively created a regime in...
OpenAI has unveiled the latest version of ChatGPT. It’s called GPT-4o, and is faster and sounds more conversational than previous versions.
They say that you can’t improve upon perfection, but somehow, Supergiant Games’ Hades sequel does.
Google is shaking up Search. On Tuesday, the company announced big new AI-powered changes to the world’s dominant search engine at I/O, Google’s annual conference for developers. From a report: With the new features, Google is positioning Search as more than a way to simply find websites. Instead, the company wants people to use its search engine to directly get answers and help them with...
Publishers have long worried that artificial intelligence would drive readers away from their sites. They’re about to find out if those fears are warranted.
Google is rethinking its most iconic and lucrative product by adding new AI features to search. One expert tells WIRED it’s “a change in the world order.”
Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.
Google’s new voice-operated AI assistant, called Astra, can make sense of what your phone’s camera sees. It was announced one day after OpenAI revealed a similar vision for ChatGPT.
The tech giant showed off how it would enmesh A.I. more deeply into its products and users’ lives, from search to so-called agents that perform tasks.
An anonymous reader shares a report: At a privately held event, Google recently demonstrated a special build of Chromium OS — code-named “ferrochrome” — running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8. However, Chromium OS wasn’t shown running on the phone’s screen itself. Rather, it was projected to an external display, which is possible because Google recently enabled display output on its Pixel 8...
Buffalo International Logistics’ public employee data shows that the company has experienced tremendous growth in a very short period.
The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch reported Tuesday. From the report: The newly compromised data includes names, phone numbers and email addresses of Dell customers. This personal data is contained in customer “service reports,” which also include information on...
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky will leave the company on 3 June, and will be replaced by Matt Garman.
A coalition of digital rights groups is demanding the US declassify records that would clarify just how expansive a major surveillance program really is.
Studies show active ingredient semaglutide can reduce the risk of heart attack, improve fertility and help treat diabetes
It is a drug that has dominated headlines, first as a medication for type 2 diabetes, then as a weight-loss aid. Now it seems semaglutide – often called by its brand names Ozempic or Wegovy – could bring benefits in myriad areas of healthcare, from addiction to dementia.
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Afrihost is South Africa’s most successful Internet service provider, with exceptional brand awareness and customer loyalty. Here is the secret to its success.
Meta is shutting down Workplace, the tool it sold to businesses that combined social and productivity features, according to messages to customers obtained by Axios and confirmed by Meta. From the report:Meta has been cutting jobs and winnowing its product line for the last few years while investing billions first in the metaverse and now in AI. Micah Collins, Meta’s senior director of product...
Jim Fleming notes that the European Space Agency can wake up a satellite but his power supplier cannot wake up his smart meters. Plus letters from Andrew Warren and David Redshaw
Re your article (British Gas boss says all UK households should be forced to fit smart meters, 8 May), after being harassed by email, text, telephone, letters and finally doorstepping, and being told that we had to...
Following businessman Andile Ngcaba’s calls for the appointment of a minister of AI, 68% of the respondents are against the idea.
The Léon Thévenin, a cable repair ship, has set sail to repair damage to internet cables on Africa’s east coast.
New chatbot technology can talk, laugh and sing like a human. What comes next is anyone’s guess.