We’ve bought two Kindles for the Aamoth household in the past year and we paid full price for each. We also have, at last count: two ancient Kindle e-book readers (one from 2009!), two dust-collecting Kindle tablets, three woefully underpowered Fire TV sticks, and the first-generation Fire TV Cube—a true powerhouse in 2019, now a shell of its former self.
Why am I telling you all this? Because even though these old devices are virtually worthless, trading them in knocks 20% off the
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its latest artificial intelligence processors on Monday and detailed its plan to develop AI chips over the next two years in a bid to challenge industry leader Nvidia.
At the Computex technology trade show in Taipei, AMD CEO Lisa Su introduced the MI325X accelerator,
China‘s Chang’e-6 lunar probe looks set to begin its historic journey back to Earth from the moon’s far side after collecting samples that scientists expect will help answer key questions about the early evolution of the solar system.
Chang’e-6, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, was launched on May 3 from the southern
Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to be found guilty on felony charges.
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When Medium launched in 2011, it did so with a promise to make “sharing information virtually effortless.” As its founder, former Twitter CEO Ev Williams, would quickly discover, it was not effortless. And for 13 years, the blogging platform has struggled to find its way.
And yet it could be said that our brave new world was created in its image. The creator economy is an estimated
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AI outputs can be disappointingly conventional. To avoid predictable responses, I like instructing AI engines to be
We live in an age of hyper specialization. This is a trend that’s been evolving for centuries. In his seminal work, The Wealth of Nations (written within months of the signing of the Declaration of Independence), Adam Smith observed that economic growth was primarily driven by specialization and division of labor. And specialization has been a hallmark of computing technology since its inception. Until now.
Late last month, Zoom announced that it was rolling out a new type of encryption, called post-quantum cryptography (PQC), to its Zoom Workplace product. A day later, Facebook owner Meta revealed it had deployed post-quantum cryptography across most of its internal service communications. These announcements from the communications and social
ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini all run on a big company’s servers. Even if you had powerful computing hardware, you couldn’t run them yourself. A few gigantic corporations control them.
But now, there’s a growing ecosystem of open-source chatbots that anyone can run, modify, and improve.
➜ HuggingChat is an excellent way to try the best ones in your web browser—for free, and with
Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence (AI) systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information.
The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-generated summaries on top of search results. Soon after, social media users began sharing s