November 6, 2023 New consumer rights laws are being introduced in the U.S. and Europe to give consumers more power to repair their devices. This is in response to a growing trend of manufacturers making it difficult or more...
November 6, 2023 A study by researchers at Microsoft and the University of Toronto has shown that LLMs do indeed have some level of emotional intelligence, and that this intelligence can be enhanced by providing them with emotional more...
November 6, 2023 Brave, the privacy-focused browser, has launched Leo, a new AI assistant that the company claims provides "unparalleled privacy" compared to other AI chatbot services. Leo is available for free to all Brave desktop users running more...
November 3, 2023 Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will stop using targeted ads across its platforms in the European Economic Area (EEA) following a binding decision by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). The ban more...
November 3, 2023 Databricks is switching to AMD GPUs to boost its large language model (LLM) training capabilities. In a collaboration last year, Databricks joined forces with AMD to employ their 3rd Gen EPYC Instance processors. Subsequently, their more...
November 3, 2023 Colorado-based startup Zephr has claimed to have solved smartphone GPS positioning problems with a networked approach that achieves sub-60cm accuracy. Zephr's software development kit (SDK) can be integrated into apps to turn smartphones into a more...
November 2, 2023 AI systems are learning to predict time series data, which is data that measures the same variables at different points in time to spot trends. This could lead to new ways to forecast ATM withdrawals, more...
October 31, 2023 Nvidia has developed chatbots that can generate human-like responses to questions about chip design. These chatbots can help to speed up the chip design process by answering questions from junior engineers and generating code to more...
October 31, 2023 The Linux kernel has received a major update with the release of version 6.6. One of the most notable new features in Linux 6.6 is the EEVDF (Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First) scheduler. EEVDF replaces more...
October 31, 2023 Large language models (LLMs) are becoming popular, and open source LLMs are at the forefront of this trend. Meta's Llama-2, a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned generative text models ranging in scale from 7 billion more...
