A few weeks after releasing iOS 18.2, Apple launched iOS 18.2.1. This software update brings bug fixes and security improvements. Per the release notes, “this update provides important bug fixes and is recommended for all users.”With iOS 18.2, Apple continued to expand Apple Intelligence features. For iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 users, the company…
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Developing new drugs is risky and expensive. Creating a new drug and bringing it to clinical trials can cost billions of pounds, with no guarantees of success. And sometimes a drug can fail to meet expectations during a clinical trial in one part of the world, even though it was effective in another. One reason…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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In September 2024, Dunelm reported a 4.1% jump in annual sales to £1.71bn for the year to 29 June. During the same month, GlobalData estimated Dunelm had increased its market-leading share of the homeware sector to 11.5%, edging even further ahead of John Lewis, its closest competitor. New initiative after new initiative is a feature…
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After months of speculation, Jony Ive confirmed in mid-September that he and a team of former Apple designers are working on hardware that will have ChatGPT at the core. While Ive said his LoveFrom design company will be involved in creating the product (or products?), he didn’t reveal what form factor(s) we should expect.I labeled…
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When it demoed Project Astra at I/O 2024 in May, Google teased smart glasses for the first time. The company did the same thing during Wednesday’s big Gemini 2.0 announcement, where the wearable was part of a longer Project Astra demo. Google also suggested Gemini AI smart glasses might be coming soon.At the time, I…
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Microsoft has taken issue with a newly formed cloud-focused lobbying body, known as the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), describing the organisation is an “astroturf group” organised by Google. The OCC debuted on Tuesday 29 October, positioning itself as a group focused on making the public cloud a more transparent, open and competitive market for enterprise…
As I type these lines, we’re halfway through OpenAI’s big “12 Days” of ChatGPT event, which brought us several exciting features. ChatGPT o1 is out of beta, as is the Canvas mode, with the latter delivering a big UI change for the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI also released the text-to-video Sora service to the public and…
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One of my oldest Apple products is the 2009 iPod touch 3. It’s already 15 years old, and for the past decade, it has been collecting dust in my home. Every now and then, I try to find a 30-pin connector and a USB-A power brick to charge it and see what’s inside.Unfortunately, a few…
I turned on my 15-year-old iPod touch, and I can still use these 5 features Read More »
Popular Opera One browser has just released a new version of Writing Mode, an Aria AI-powered feature similar to Apple’s Writing Tools that helps you write or rewrite any text with ease. This update brings a more intuitive, smarter, and less intrusive AI assistant, as Aria keeps getting extra functionality.This feature is integrated into the…
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