Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to make the human race smarter. Raymond Kurzweil has made predicting the Singularity — when artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence — a cottage industry. Is AI going to make us all smarter, or are we already as smart as we can handle? REPETITIVE STUPIDITY SYNDROME Some of our issues are cognitive, […]
While under scrutiny by European regulators for its practices around the App Store and Apple Pay, Apple Inc. made a slight change Monday that could be a signal it is prepared to soften some of its longstanding stringent rules. At its virtual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple AAPL, +2.61% quietly snuck a small tile […]
Computer makers are unveiling a total of 50 servers with Nvidia’s A100 graphics processing units (GPUs) to power AI, data science, and scientific computing applications. The first GPU based on the Nvidia Ampere architecture, the A100 is the company’s largest leap in GPU performance to date, with features such as the ability for one GPU […]
During a workshop on autonomous driving at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020, Waymo and Uber presented research to improve the reliability — and safety — of their self-driving systems. Waymo principal scientist Drago Anguelov detailed ViDAR, a camera and range-centric framework covering scene geometry, semantics, and dynamics. Raquel Urtasun, chief scientist at Uber’s […]
It hasn’t been the best of months for Chrome with problems on macOS and Windows. But now Google has announced a potentially game changing reason for millions of users to quit Windows for Chrome OS. In a new blog post titled ‘The future of computing showed up early’, Google Chrome OS vice president John Solomon […]
Amazon is ending support for its Dash Wand, an Alexa-enabled device that let shoppers scan grocery barcodes and order household essentials from their homes. In an email to users, the company said the devices will no longer be supported as of July 21st. Shoppers can still use other Alexa-enabled devices to add items to a […]
Google’s automated Photos printing service wasn’t long for this world — at least, not in its first incarnation. Droid Life has learned (via The Verge) that Google is shutting down the AI-guided trial service on June 30th. It didn’t say what prompted the closure in a notice to members, but it said it hoped to […]
Social media is buzzing with complaints from people after apparently discovering that Apple or Google has suddenly uploaded a COVID-19 tracking app to their phone without permission. Here’s what actually happened. If you have opened up your Facebook or Twitter apps only to be bombarded by messages from people warning that Apple or Google has […]
Google Chrome extensions downloaded more than 32 million times were used to spy on the popular browser’s users in a massive global surveillance campaign, according to a new report. The report, from cybersecurity firm Awake Security, found at least 111 “malicious or fake” Chrome extensions capable of taking screenshots, stealing login credentials and capturing passwords […]
Comcast will continue to offer free access to its 1.5 million public Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots through the end of 2020, the company announced. “We saw a huge jump in usage after we opened up our public hotspots, and we’re excited to keep them open through the end of the year as the nation begins taking […]
The iPhone 12’s base model could be the smallest flagship smartphone we’ve seen in years. In fact, in news that will delight users who like tiny phones, it’ll be smaller than Apple’s currently smallest phone, the iPhone SE (2020). EverythingApplePro showed off a clay dummy of the smallest iPhone 12 in a video on Twitter, […]
Transport design studio PriestmanGoode has developed a concept for a high-performance balloon and pressurised capsule for Space Perspective to take space tourists on a “cruise” around the stratosphere. Designed for American space tourism startup Space Perspective, the two-part spaceship is comprised of a four-metre-tall and five-metre-wide pressurised pod shaped like a spinning top, which is […]
