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An e-mail recently sent by Google regarding Gemini's chat recording stirred up a bit of brouhaha in the tech space due to its wording, leading users to believe their chats were saved indefinitely, even if history was turned off. As it turns out, what happened is nearly the opposite and that Google actually improved...
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Rental car giant Hertz is rapidly deploying advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence scanners at its airport locations across the United States, promising a faster and more accurate damage inspection process. Developed in partnership with Israel-based UVeye, these systems have sparked a growing number of...
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In collaboration with Google, Lenovo has officially launched the Chromebook Plus 14—its "most advanced Chromebook Plus yet"—integrating powerful innards and more exclusive Google AI capabilities than ever before. The machine boasts a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra processor that can handle up to 50 TOPS, a 14-inch OLED...
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The human brain is an incredibly complex system, responsible for consciousness, intelligence, movement -- essentially every function in the human body. To continue to perform at optimal levels, our brains constantly need help creating new pathways for neuroplasticity. Even in old age, we must embrace lifelong learning...
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YouTube Shorts is set to shake things up (for better or worse) with the upcoming integration of Google's advanced AI video and audio generator, Veo 3—for free, no less. Announced by YouTube CEO Neal Mohan at the Cannes Lions advertising and creative communications event, this new Shorts feature democratizes access to...
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Aiming to transform user-generated content into actionable marketing ads, Reddit unveiled its "Community Intelligence" suite this week at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. This AI-powered platform promises to redefine how advertisers connect with their audiences by leveraging the vast and real...
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If you just bought a motherboard with PCIe 5.0 connectivity, there's a chance you may already see it as a little outdated. How so? The PCI-SIG has formally announced the finalization of the PCIe 7.0 protocol, allowing an x16 slot to carry up to a whopping 512GB/s of bidirectional communications.
Much like the...
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At the Advancing AI event, currently underway in San Jose, California, CEO Dr. Lisa Su, along with an array of company execs and partners, disclosed AMD’s latest integrated AI platform vision and unveiled new rack-scale AI systems, in additional to details regarding its forthcoming Instinct MI350 series AI...
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Sorry students, but you'll have to rely on an alternative artificial intelligence (AI) model to write your term paper instead of ChatGPT (including the Pro tier) this morning, because the service is in the midst of a major outage. Or better yet, write your paper the old fashioned way—putting in the research and using your mushy, human brain!
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In a big move set to significantly bolster its presence in the burgeoning data center and AI infrastructure markets, semiconductor giant Qualcomm announced today its agreement to acquire UK-based Alphawave Semi, a leading provider of high-speed wired connectivity and compute technologies. The deal, valued at...
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The number of lawsuits filed against AI companies training their models on data posted to the internet continues to grow. The ongoing legal battle between Meta and a group of authors over copyright infringement is perhaps the most prominent, but Reddit has also filed a lawsuit against Anthropic (an AI firm), accusing...
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A hot minute after the world started talking about GPU-powered neural networks, the conversation's quickly changed to neural networks powered by actual neurons. You can now order a literal bio-computer with 800,000 neurons inside, courtesy of Cortical Labs, for a cool $35,000. We talked about this topic before, but...
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Google I/O was about a week ago, and if you haven't heard, one of Google's biggest announcements was the company's Veo 3 generative AI model for video. Gone are the days of creepy, low-quality clips that vaguely look like Will Smith eating spaghetti and don't traverse the uncanny valley very well. Veo 3 is more than...
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A revolutionary/goofy-looking wireless forehead e-tattoo has been developed that can accurately estimate mental workloads in real-time, offering a significant leap forward for human-in-the-loop systems in high-stakes environments. This groundbreaking device, detailed in an article in the August 15 issue of Device by...
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Google Photos, the beloved cloud imaging storage service for billions of photos, videos, and cherished memories, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. Over that time span, Google Photos has grown into the go-to tool for over 1.5 billion people globally, safeguarding more than 9 trillion photos and videos. As...
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NVIDIA is planning to ship a cut-down version of its RTX Pro 6000 server-class graphics card with key specification downgrades to China, in order to sidestep U.S.-imposed artificial intelligence (AI) chip export restrictions, according to multiple sources who spoke with Reuters on the matter. It's essentially the same...
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NVIDIA has been heavily impacted by US export control restrictions, which are part of the measures aimed at limiting China's access to key AI technologies and innovation designed here in the US. This has not gone down well with Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, who has described the export control policy as a complete...
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If Joss Whedon was writing the script for today's news, right about now someone would be saying "well, that just happened!" OpenAI dug in its back pocket and found enough change for a $6.5-billion-total to entirely buy out Jony Ive's AI device start-up called "io" (Io).
Here's how the story goes. After leaving...
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Google wants to transform the online shopping landscape with a suite of potentially game-changing AI-powered features, unveiled at the recent I/O 2025 conference. These advancements promise to make online shopping more intuitive, personalized, and efficient for consumers. Google new products include a sophisticated AI...
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AI might be force-jammed into everything, but once you sift the slop, there are more than a handful of actually useful tools out there beyond chatbots that replace search engines. Google knows that, and along with unveiling a bunch of new AI services, it's combined every consumer-facing one it has into the banner of...
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Every hardware and software outfit right now is like, 'You get AI, you get AI, you get AI...everyone gets AI!'. There are product segments where an AI infusion makes a lot of sense, though, and Phison sees fast solid state drive (SSD) storage as being one of them. As a result, it's showcasing its AI-infused E28 SSD...
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Foxconn is teaming up with NVIDIA to deploy what the two are calling an "AI factory supercomputer" in Taiwan, in cooperation with the Taiwan government. Announced at Computex, Foxconn subsidiary Big Innovation Company will collaborate with NVIDIA as an official NVIDIA Cloud Partner to provide the the AI...
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