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Tuesday February 25, 2025. 12:00 PM
Whether you’re a professional writer or someone who dreads having to compose documents or emails for your job, the potential of AI assistance for your writing tasks is appealing. Powered by Gemini, Google’s generative AI platform, the Help Me Write tool in Google Docs...
Monday February 24, 2025. 06:39 PM
Polish company Clone Robotics has unveiled Protoclone, a human-like robot equipped with synthetic muscles and a polymer skeleton consisting of 206 bones. The YouTube clip below shows Protoclone using its synthetic muscles to move. Protoclone has a 500-watt electric pump as ...
Apple plans to inject billions of dollars into the US economy, spending $500 billion in the US over the next four years and promising expansion, new manufacturing facilities, and big investments in advanced manufacturing and R&D. The announcement follows last week’s...
A new Brookings Institution report on generative AI (genAI) found that the more highly skilled a tech worker is, the more vulnerable they are to having their jobs supplemented by the technology. That differs dramatically from past automation technologies that primarily...
In a significant escalation of transatlantic tensions over tech regulation, US House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has demanded clarification from the EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera regarding the enforcement of the EU’s digital marketplace rules, citing concerns about...
Saturday February 22, 2025. 03:02 AM
US feds are reportedly investigating a $32 million deal inked by CrowdStrike with a government reseller to provide cybersecurity tools for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) — products the agency never used and said it didn’t even purchase. On the last day of Q3 2023,...
Friday February 21, 2025. 11:18 PM
Amazon’s announcement on Wednesday that it is abandoning its Chime collaboration app, while stressing that it will double down on the far more successful Chime software development kit (SDK), was an example of Amazon being Amazon. It knows what it does well, and where to...
As of 10 a.m. (ET) today, Apple is no longer offering new users in the UK the chance to enable Advanced Data Protection. Essentially, anyone who now wants to enable the feature to protect their data against criminal or state surveillance or exfiltration will no longer be...
Microsoft has launched Magma, a new generative AI (genAI) model that can be used to control everything from software to robots. The company says Magma is the first such model that can act on its own based on multimodal data such as texts, images, and video. It can, for...
Tech press-landi and the tech blogosphere were abuzz last week with news that both Apple, the company that makes the iPhone, and Meta, the company that makes everybody on Facebook confront a daily flood of horrible AI-generated slop, are making full-size, humanoid robots....
Thursday February 20, 2025. 10:17 PM
Perplexity is releasing its model R1 1776, a version of Deepseek R1 with open model weights that has been post-trained to remove China’s censorship and provide more unbiased, accurate answers, according to Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas. He wrote about the...
Google and Zoom this week announced new AI features in their videoconferencing apps that the companies said are aimed at improving employee productivity. The updates focus on automating tasks during and after a videoconference. Google Meet now has a feature that advises ...
Emerging technologies such as connected transport, quantum sensing, healthcare diagnostics, and synthetic AI-driven content are creating huge gaps in data protection and privacy that could quickly outpace the ability of regulators and enterprises to contain them. It’s a...
There’s a lot to like about Apple’s newest $599 iPhone 16e, but one of the more interesting features in the device is the Apple-designed 5G modem. Apple has spent at least seven years developing the chip, but gave it just a few short seconds of time when it announced...
Google has unveiled an AI co-scientist built on its Gemini 2.0 platform, aiming to accelerate scientific research by generating novel hypotheses and refining experiments. While the system shows promise, questions remain about its performance and broader applicability. The...
Applications that support the specialized AI chips on Copilot+ PCs have been rare, but Microsoft is looking to change that. The company this week introduced an upgraded AI Hub that adds new programs to the Microsoft Store that will run on neural processing units (NPUs), the...
As federal workers continue to be handed pink slips, IT workers are being caught up in the effort to downsize government agencies — and they’re likely ill-prepared for the job market they’ll face in the private sector. The Trump Administration, with guidance from Elon...
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has launched an AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, escalating the fight for top talent and reshaping competition in the fast-evolving sector. About 30 researchers and engineers at Thinking Machines Lab previously worked at competitors including...
Wednesday February 19, 2025. 08:06 PM
Apple’s new iPhone 16e combines three innovations in one $599 package: an A18 chip, Apple’s fast smartphone processor; Apple Intelligence, the company’s private-by-design take on artificial intelligence; and the C1, Apple’s first-ever 5G radio. The announcement...
Sending messages via satellite on iPhones should soon be as easy to as using your mobile network signal, as Apple and satellite partner Globalstar put a new satellite constellation into space. In an FCC request for authorization, Globalstar shared fresh information on how...
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