4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (375+ words) All of these features must be consciously enabled by the user and are not on by default. What they have in common is use of artificial intelligence along with always-on microphones. While all four of these tools are being presented…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (596+ words) Twenty-five years ago, I sat near the front of the room while then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs rolled out Apple’s digital hub strategy, a vision in which the Mac would become the central manager of all manner of portable digital devices....

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (470+ words) Computerworld Late-breaking reports suggest Apple has built a new Siri AI ‘Recaps’ feature that summarizes your day for you The idea sounds great until you recognize that this summary will also include overheard conversations Suspending the huge red flag…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (691+ words) By now, you probably know my stance on Gemini and other generative AI gobbledegook — right? In short: It’s an insanely powerful form of technology (obviously). But it’s also wildly inaccurate and ineffective as an all-purpose answer engine, and by cramming…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (679+ words) When you think of AI, and Nvidia’s GPUs often come to mind because they have been so much a part of the ongoing AI revolution. But at the recent Hot Chips show in California, an alternative future appears to be…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1084+ words) The tech industry faced something of a reckoning in late 2022 with the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a simple chatbot that could answer questions, seemingly by magic. The early frontier large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and rivals like Anthropic and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (873+ words) Have you heard the buzz? Good vibrations are officially here on Android — at least, on Google’s latest homemade Pixel gizmos. The vibration options vary not only in their patterns — with presets such as “Buzz,” “Heartbeat,” “Bumps,” and “Swirl” — but also…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (605+ words) Perplexity on Tuesday rolled out an offering that runs the AI entirely on a local machine, and that, it said, will keep “private data local and escalating to the cloud only when a task needs it.” The service, called simply…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (376+ words) In recent months, hints emerged concerning Apple’s plans to introduce camera-equipped AirPods Pro; the cameras would be designed to pick up details of your ambient surroundings and feed information to Siri to help you with your life. At one point,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (172+ words) Today, embedded systems are so common that you’d have a hard time looking in any direction without seeing a device which contains one – if you know where to look. Lately, a movement toward embedded as a platform is creating new…...