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Your Fitbit already tracks everything from your steps to your sleep patterns, giving people access to a positive deluge of information about their every waking moment. Google (GOOG) has decided that users need more, however. During the live-streamed event The Check Up, Google revea...
It’s almost time for another Microsoft livestream event, the first since September of last year. The festivities start at 12PM ET on Thursday, March 21. The best way to watch everything unfold is via the official Microsoft stream; it doesn’t look like they’ll have a stream on YouTu...
We’ve already learned that Apple may tap Google’s Gemini to power some of iOS 18’s new AI features, but that hasn’t stopped the tech giant from working on its own AI models. In a new paper, Apple has revealed more details about how it is approaching the development of its new MM1 AI model.Ap...
The Department of Homeland Security has seen the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence firsthand. It found a trafficking victim years later using an A.I. tool that conjured an image of the child a decade older. But it has also been tricked into investigations by deep fake images created...
Born in Iraq in 1974, Haetham Abdul-Razaq was 6 when war broke out between his country and Iran. Any childhood innocence or illusion of safety was shattered when his father disappeared and was presumed dead. Eight years of war, followed by harsh sanctions imposed on Iraq after the first Gulf War inc...
The tech bros are fighting again. Last week, Apple blocked Epic Games from accessing its developer platform in Europe. The move would have prevented the Fortnite maker from building an app store to rival Apple’s just days before the European Union’s new competition measures — the Digital Marke...
Days after Apple started allowing iOS users in the EU to use third-party app stores, the company has announced more changes related to how developers can distribute their apps. Most significantly, those who meet certain criteria will be able to let users download apps from their websites. The Web Di...
Tuesday’s announcement is the latest example of the Digital Markets Act forcing Apple to make long-resisted changes to its App Store business processes. The DMA is designed to compel “gatekeepers” — big tech companies including Apple — to open their platforms to smaller rivals. The web dow...
Artificial intelligence is driving us into the era of edge computing — two words you should expect to hear more in the coming months and years. Tech giants have poured billions of dollars into the cloud and spent years trying to get customers to move data onto remote servers. Now they’re exp...
AI is helping organizations in nearly every industry increase productivity, engage customers, realize operational efficiencies, and gain a competitive edge. Advances in supercomputing in the cloud and the ability to achieve processing at an exascale level are major catalysts for this new era of AI i...