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How Howdens used GenAI to power app user experience

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Howdens, which supplies kitchens to tradespeople, has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app to provide technical knowledge. Chip uses Microsoft’s generative AI (GenAI) technologies, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure AI Search and Applied AI Services. Chip has been designed to provide Howdens’ trade customers with the information they need to do…

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Public awareness of ID security grows, but big obstacles remain

4 minutes of reading / AI, Facebook, Okta, social media, Tech / By

High-profile cyber attacks and data breaches that make headline news have done much to increase awareness of security issues among the general public over the past few years, but have also caused heightened stress, with 93% of consumers polled for a new study by identity specialist Okta saying they were worried about digital identity theft.…

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Troubled AI Processor Developer Graphcore Finds a Buyer: SoftBank

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After months of searching for a buyer, troubled U.K.-based AI processor designer Graphcore said on Friday that it has been acquired by SoftBank. The company will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will possibly collaborate with Arm, but what remains to be seen what happens to the unique architecture of Graphcore’s intelligence…

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Bringing Bridget Jones’ diary into the AI era

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June 7, 2024 was the 70th anniversary of the death of Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, whose wisdom still resonates in fields ranging from mathematics to biology. But I want to argue that in the age of ChatGPT, one aspect of his legacy—the famous Turing Test, also known as the ‘imitation game’,…

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Apple Vision Pro launches in Europe, but there’s one reason I still won’t buy it

3 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, iPhone, Tech / By

I’ve been a fan of the Apple Vision Pro even before Apple unveiled it at WWDC 2023 last year. The rumors painted an exciting picture of what the mixed-reality headset could offer. Once Apple laid out its spatial computing it was clear that I wanted a taste of that.I saw how computing might change in…

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Everyone in the US can now try Amazon’s AI shopping assistant

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After introducing its AI shopping assistant Rufus in the Amazon Shopping app earlier this year, Amazon is now rolling the feature out to all customers in the US. As the company explained in February, Rufus has been trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As, and information from across the web. It uses all…

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In this bizarre new social media app, every user other than you is AI

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Over the past few years, you might have noticed that an increasingly worrying number of social media users are actually bots imitating humans. They’re usually fairly easy to spot, but avoiding them altogether is virtually impossible. Well, a new social media app called Aspect takes all the guesswork out of the equation with a platform…

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Intel’s woes with Core i9 CPUs crashing look worse than we thought – Team Blue really needs to act now to fix this mess

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Intel’s problems with unstable 13th-gen and 14th-gen high-end CPUs appear to run deeper than we thought, and a new YouTube video diving into these gremlins will do little to calm any fears that buyers of Raptor Lake Core i9 processors (and its subsequent refresh) have.Level1Techs is the YouTuber in question, who has explored several avenues…

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Intel Arrow Lake may not arrive until December – and that could seal AMD’s Ryzen 9000 victory in next-gen CPU war

3 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, Intel, Tech / By

Intel’s Arrow Lake processors may not arrive until the very end of 2024, if a new rumor is right.This one comes from regular hardware leaker HXL as shared on X in a very brief statement that informs us that Arrow Lake sales won’t kick off until December.In case you were wondering, ARL-S refers to Arrow…

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TerifAI is a terrifying AI chatbot that steals your voice while you talk to it

4 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, Tech / By

Generative AI products are getting so good that they can clone your voice with just a few samples. OpenAI has already produced such a tool, and I immediately thought voice cloning might be the most dangerous thing coming out of genAI app development. Sure, the ability to clone voices can come in handy in a…

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