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Wednesday February 26, 2025. 07:02 PM
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...
Are you ready for Vision Pro week? Well, you should be as hot on the heels of some highly significant enterprise-focused visionOS improvements, Apple has entered a new initiative that puts its device at the heart of future manufacturing. In this case, it’s a partnership...
Switching to Windows 11? You’re not alone. With the clock ticking down to Windows 10’s end-of-support date in October, professionals around the globe are making plans — and lots of them are making the upgrade to Windows 11. Some parts of Windows 11 can seem downright...
Microsoft and Apple were once the yin and yang of the tech world. Microsoft was dull and plodding, milking buggy, barely-good-enough-for-prime-time Windows for tremendous profits, thanks to a worldwide operating system monopoly. The company was incapable of creating new,...
Ahem: I have two separate confessions to make, both equally embarrassing. Confession #1 is that I love email. I’m totally not kidding, either. It’s about as uncool of a thing as possible to adore, I realize — I mean, everyone hates their inbox, right? For me, though,...
Tuesday February 25, 2025. 11:19 PM
Proposed cuts at a key US government agency will likely mean the demise of CHIPS Act funding, which could effectively end the program and undermine efforts to reshore semiconductor manufacturing and research to the US. Axios and Bloomberg on Tuesday reported that the...
Atlassian’s Trello project management tool has received a facelift with features designed to organize meetings and ideas in a cohesive manner. The new features include an inbox, a planner, and a mix of add-ons and generative AI (genAI) tools to help customers summarize...
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has made its new AI model, the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS), available to everyone free of charge. Medium-range weather forecasts are those that predict weather conditions for three to 15...
Is your gadget fat and foldy? You might have a better choice next year as Apple treads its long-traveled path of not doing things first, but doing them better. That’s right, a folding iPhone is now scheduled for 2026. Folding devices are becoming increasingly popular....
According to the World Economic Forum’s recent Future of Jobs Report, 39% of workers’ existing skillsets will become outdated by 2030 due to economic uncertainty, the rise of generative AI (genAI) and rapid technological change. Skillsets related to genAI, networks and...
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....
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