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Wednesday February 26, 2025. 08:25 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: People now watch so many programs at so many different times in so many different ways -- with an antenna, on cable, in an app or from a website, as well as live, recorded or on demand -- that it is increasingly challenging for the...
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Amazon’s generative AI-powered Alexa+ will pull from the Amazon Bedrock library of large language models to perform household tasks and answer natural language queries, Amazon announced on February 26. Amazon Alexa competes with Apple’s Siri, which recently received a...
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Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yakkers in a flap Final update It's not just you. Slack is indeed having a wobbly day, leaving people unable to message each other as usual.…
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Framework’s modular, upgradeable laptops have made it a darling of PC fans, making some of the best elements of desktops portable. So, why would Framework design a desktop PC? To find out, PCWorld’s Mark Hachman went to the company’s reveal event in San Francisco,...
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While convicted felon #47, Donald Trump, has a lot of bad ideas. Gaza Lago is one of the worst. Trump's stated intention to have the US take over the Gaza Strip is terrible. His love of AI slop is also awful, and when you put two terrible things together, you get bearded...
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OpenAI has officially expanded its deep research tool to all paying ChatGPT users, making advanced research capabilities more accessible beyond the Pro subscription. The tool, designed to generate detailed reports with citations from multiple online sources, was initially...
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Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 'droid 15 It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said it'll provide Android software updates, including vulnerability fixes, for its...
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YouTube has surpassed 1 billion monthly active viewers of podcast content, the video platform announced on Wednesday, cementing its position as the most frequently used podcast service in the United States. The Google-owned platform reported viewers watched over 400 million...
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Online education company Chegg has filed a landmark lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using AI-generated search summaries to divert traffic away from publishers. The lawsuit, filed Monday, in a federal district court, claims that Google’s AI Overviews have ...
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Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence.
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Donald Trump warned federal workers who haven't responded to Elon Musk's 'things-I-did-this-week' list that they could lose their jobs. Meanwhile, Cabinet members sitting right next him tried their darndest to keep their composure. 'Those million people that haven't...
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U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has condemned a British order requiring Apple to break its encrypted storage worldwide as an 'egregious' violation of American rights that could breach the CLOUD Act facilitating cross-border investigations. In a letter...
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The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to have a new chief after the White House appointed a little-known official, Amy Gleason, as its “acting administrator.” Such administration appointments don’t normally attract a lot of attention, but these are...
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The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is getting a lot of free publicity as the West Texas outbreak starts killing children. While some parents are rushing their unvaccinated kids into clinics for the jab, some anti-vaxxers are doubling down and blaming the vaccine itself. —...
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After years of watching—and paying for—so-called “peak TV” on the likes of Netflix, Apple TV+, and Max, my eyeballs were starting to glaze over.  Sure, I love The Crown, Mindhunter, and Hacks, but true streaming gems tend to be few and far between. (Yes, I know, I...
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Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference Arm predicts AI inferencing will soon be ubiquitous. In order to give devices the oomph they need for all that neural-network processing, it is beefing up its embedded platform with the...
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A Disney employee's download of an AI image generation tool from GitHub led to a massive data breach in July 2024, exposing over 44 million internal Slack messages. The software contained infostealer malware that compromised Matthew Van Andel's computer [non-paywalled...
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Alexa+ will cost $20 a month but will be free for Amazon Prime members. It'll eventually arrive on nearly every Alexa device the company has shipped.
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Imagine for just a moment an advanced bird feeder that feels like a piece of nature itself, carved from eco-friendly bamboo. However, this IP66 waterproof feeder is also equipped with Wi-Fi, solar charging, and an AI camera to bring birdwatching into modern times. There is...
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If you’ve had it up to here with dumb responses from Alexa, get ready for a big change.  At a glitzy event in New York City on Wednesday, Amazon unveiled–again–its AI-enhanced and “completely re-architectured” Alexa, and we’ll all soon have a chance to kick the...
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