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Ryan Shrout announced he has parted ways with Intel via a post on X. Shrout joined Intel in 2018 as the company's Chief Performance Strategist.
Ryan Shrout is no stranger to tweeting about his departures from previous jobs. He revealed his departure from PC Perspective, of which he was the founder, on Twitter. And...
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A group of researchers have shared what is being called the "holy grail of astrobiology," which they say can reliably detect signs of past or present life on other planets. The news of the research comes on the heels of NASA's successful OSIRIS-REx mission that returned the first asteroid sample collected in...
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Google says its AI assistant Bard is improving with its latest update. The latest Bard model now integrates with Google apps and services to better assist with more helpful responses through Bard Extensions and an enhanced "Google it" button.
The tech giant launched Bard Extensions in English yesterday, introducing...
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Zoom wants to lessen your workload with its new AI Companion, which it says will empower you to be more productive while connecting and collaborating with teammates. AI Companion, formerly Zoom IQ, is integrated into the Zoom experience and is included with a paid account.
Artificial intelligence continues to make...
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As artificial intelligence advances, it has now sped its way to a win against world-champion drone racers. The AI system "Swift" that defeated the human pilots also has real-world applications, including environmental monitoring and disaster response.
AI-enabled devices defeating human counterparts is not something...
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Lenovo has a new flagship gaming laptop—Legion 9i (16", Gen 8)— and at least on paper, it leaves little to be desired. It's also the first 16-inch laptop in the Legion lineage, and the only one in the world to boast a self-contained liquid cooling system, which Cooler Master helped design. And that's all just the tip...
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The Pentagon has announced plans to fund a program for the US Air Force that will provide thousands of autonomous systems, including AI drones. The move comes in light of China increasing its military prowess with more conventional resources, but is still likely to face stiff opposition from those who oppose...
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NVIDIA's early and ongoing investments in artificial intelligence technology, including both silicon and software solutions, are paying off in a monstrous way, much to the delight of investor. Shares of NVIDIA soared in after-market trading, after the company posted record revenue of $13.51 billion for the second...
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NVIDIA is leveling up its Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) technology to make in-game non-playable characters (NPC) a lot more realistic in how they respond to player interactions and conversations. The result is that developers can quickly and easily inject human-like emotions and personalities into NPCs, both good and bad...
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Dire warnings from leaders in the area of AI technology continue to be voiced around the world. The latest comes from Jaan Tallinn, who founded two organizations, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute, to study and mitigate the risks of advancing AI technologies too...
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Twenty-eight years ago, Microsoft was faced with the rapid expansion and commercialization of the Internet. Then-CEO Bill Gates saw this change coming and sent out an internal memo calling this phenomenon “The Internet Tidal Wave.” Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes that artificial intelligence might be on the...
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My AI launched a few months ago as Snapchat's new AI-powered chatbot. The company says that over 150 million people have sent over 10 billion messages to My AI, making it one of the most used consumer chatbots available. However, the chatbot which is meant to lend a hand to users in times of need, seemed to take on a...
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Google Search is being rolled out with new generative AI capabilities that will help people better understand, digest and make sense of information on the web. The update comes just months after Google launched its generative AI-powered Search experience (SGE).
Google Search has recently seen some major changes in...
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NVIDIA Research has built and released an open-source AI model that can reconstruct 2D videos into detailed 3D structures, complete with intricate details and textures. Creators can then take these 3D objects and inject them into various design applications for further manipulation, be it a video game asset, robotics...
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For years now as a software developer, if you're stuck on a hard problem and you want to ask a stranger for help, the place to go has been a website called Stack Overflow. There's so much helpful content on there, and so much of it is indexed so well by Google, that there are memes about professional developers that...
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In the midst of an ongoing strike in Hollywood, Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be utilized in the entertainment industry. Along with actors and writers taking to picket lines, the Pope also issued a dire warning when it comes to how AI is used.
As AI technology...
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If you've never played a pen & paper role-playing game, you may not be aware that these games typically aren't distributed as boxed sets like board games. Instead, you typically purchase one or two "core" books with the main rules, and then buy extra "sourcebooks" that add additional content, usually held together by...
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Google is improving its generative AI-powered Search experience (SGE) by adding videos to image and text results. The company says it wants to help users make better sense of a sea of content by providing faster and easier ways to find what they are looking for.
Internet users have long used browser search engines...
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Lenovo has a new gaming laptop on the horizon with some features that are a first for its Legion line. Chief among them is form factor—the Legion Slim 5 (14", Gen 8) is the first-ever Legion gaming laptop to feature a 14-inch class (14.5-inch) display, with a redesigned keyboard to accommodate the compact size. It's...
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A couple of years ago, voice assistants were all the rage—Google, Apple, and Amazon all have their own personified virtual helpers, though most have scaled back spending on these systems. Now, generative AI is all the rage, and Google says via an internal memo that it's going to infuse Google Assistant with that tech...
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Shares of AMD rose in after-market trading hours last night and are down slightly this morning this morning after the chip designer posted better-than-expected financial results for the second quarter of 2023, including $5.36 billion in total revenue (down 18% year over year and flat sequentially) and net income of...
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The generative AI genie is out of the bottle and not going back any time soon. These developments are transforming the ways companies do business, but those who choose to implement it are faced with significant decisions to be made. For example, employees may inadvertently leak trade secrets to cloud-hosted AI models...
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