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Rise of the citizen developer: GenAI and the democratisation of code

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App development harnessing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) might be democratising coding and potentially freeing up resource, but organisations must carefully manage contributors without prior coding experience. According to Jon Puleston, vice-president of innovation in the profiles division at Kantar, even an accurate synthetic persona based on a data set of 25,000 real people containing 250…

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tvOS 18’s Apple TV+ upgrade makes the best streaming app even better

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tvOS 18 is full of great features. After a few years of neglecting the Apple TV operating system, it seems Apple is more focused than ever on its home hardware and software because tvOS 17 was packed with innovation, and we can’t stop hearing rumors about new home products.With tvOS 18, one of the greatest…

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Daylight Computer Co. CEO Anjan Katta on building a healthier computer

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One of the most intriguing product announcements of 2024 is Daylight Computer’s DC-1 tablet. When it was revealed in May, Daylight described DC-1 as “a new kind of computer designed for deep focus and wellbeing.” The company will achieve this by offering a 60fps paper-like display (which the company calls Live Paper) and eliminating blue…

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Lessons from war: How Israel is fighting Iranian state-backed hacking

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Hamas hacked into video streams from private security cameras in Israeli homes to gather intelligence before fighters descended on Israeli settlements near the Gaza strip on 7 October 2023, according to the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD). For Gaby Portnoy, director general of the INCD, the hacking was no surprise: “But it went deeper than…

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Microsoft and Google’s GHG emissions gains call viability of net-zero targets into question

9 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By

The financial results of the world’s biggest three hyperscale cloud companies have seen Amazon, Google and Microsoft all credit growing customer demand for artificial intelligence (AI) services for boosting their respective profit, revenue and market share totals. The downside to this growth, particularly where Google and Microsoft are concerned, is that it appears to be…

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Apple TV gets these 6 features with tvOS 18 beta 3

2 minutes of reading / AirPods, Amazon, Apple, Apple TV, HomePod, iPad, iPhone, machine learning, Tech / By

Following the second beta of tvOS 18, Apple has now released its third testing version to Apple TV users. At the moment, it’s unclear what’s changing from one build to the other. However, we still expect the company to add the new TV and Movies screensavers announced during the WWDC 2024 keynote.Image source: Apple Inc.Starting with…

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Trends in the cloud database market

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The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Amazon Fire TV is overriding screensavers with full-screen ads

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Amazon is finding fresh, increasingly annoying ways for your Fire TV to serve you ads at every available opportunity. This week, Cord Cutter News reported that Amazon has started replacing the screensaver on Fire TVs with full-screen ads that take over the entire display.As Cord Cutter News explains, if you leave your Fire TV idle…

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Why you should probably get an Apple Watch SE instead of a Series 9

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It’s pretty clear from the name: the Apple Watch SE is the iPhone SE of smartwatches. It’s missing some premium features, but it offers the best overall user experience of any device in its price range. As it turns out, however, the value proposition of the 2nd-generation Apple Watch SE has only gotten better with…

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MyQ smart garage opener has become controversial, but I still recommend it

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The MyQ smart garage door opener has become somewhat controversial following Chamberlain’s recent decision to remove many smart home integrations that users relied on. And yet, most people who own one will tell you that it’s one of the best additions they’ve made to their smart home setup. After all, it still has about 71,000…

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