As soon as Google unveiled the Circle to Search AI feature for the Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8, I said I wanted something similar on the iPhone. With AI being the main upgrade of iOS 18, I also expect Apple to offer something similar or maybe use Google’s feature.After all, Google said in January that…
Apple’s answer to Circle to Search might not be ready until next year Read More »
It’s official: Meta is ready to join the AI fray. Meta AI received a massive update this week. Llama 3 is Meta’s new large language model that powers Meta AI, which Mark Zuckerberg claims is more intelligent than anything in the industry. Meta AI is now available on the web, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp…
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The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has announced this week that the next-generation interconnection consortium has grown to 55 members. And as the group works towards developing the initial version of their ultra-fast Ethernet standard, they have released some of the first technical details on the upcoming standard. Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims…
Dutch-French vehicle hire startup Dott is using the internet of things (IoT) to manage its fleet of electric scooters and bikes in major cities across Europe. According to Kristina Gibson, chief product officer at Dott, responsible for product engineering and user design teams at the company, the easiest way to think about its service is…
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When it comes to data storage, public cloud is now firmly mainstream. According to a recent survey, close to a third of organisations plan to deploy cloud storage. CIOs and IT directors listed cloud as their highest investment priority after cyber security and risk management. Cloud storage has long been an attractive option for organisations…
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Considering the state of the internet today, I think having a premium VPN app on your devices should be as big a priority as creating unique passwords for each web property and saving them into a premium password manager app. A virtual private network will anonymize your internet traffic, protecting your IP address and preventing…
Google One VPN is shutting down, but there’s already a better alternative Read More »
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati didn’t have a good answer when The Wall Street Journal‘s ace technology reporter Joanna Stern asked her on camera in March to identify what data was used to train the company’s text-to-video generation tool Sora. And thanks to new remarks from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, it’s even more clear now why…
Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major…
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As usual, the next-gen Android beta is already available to developers. They can test some of Google’s new features for the next-gen OS release. Or they can inspect the code for clues of what comes next. The latter is always a source of exciting findings. And it so happens that one of the cool features…
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In a rather stunning turn of events, Apple updated its App Review Guidelines this week to allow retro game emulators on the App Store. Unlike many of the recent changes to iOS, this change won’t be limited to Europe. In the coming days and weeks, developers all around the world will be able to launch…
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