September 6, 2023 Zoom has announced that it is building a new AI assistant into its software. The AI assistant, dubbed "AI Companion," will help workers get more out of their meetings by providing real-time transcription, summarization, and more...
September 6, 2023 A new survey of AI experts conducted by Axios, Generation Lab, and Syracuse University found that a majority support the creation of a federal "Department of AI" to regulate the emerging technology. The survey found more...
September 6, 2023 Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google's AI division DeepMind, has predicted that everyone will have their own AI-powered personal assistant within the next five years. Suleyman, who is now the CEO of Inflection AI, a tech more...
September 6, 2023 Hurricane Idalia caused widespread flooding in Florida, and some electric cars that were submerged in saltwater have caught fire. At least two Teslas have caught fire in this way, and the Palm Harbor Fire Department more...
September 6, 2023 Microsoft has blamed a power sag and insufficient staff numbers for an outage that took out its Australia East cloud region last week. According to Microsoft, the power sag tripped a subset of the cooling more...
September 5, 2023 Austin, Texas, has seen a wave of tech workers leaving the city in recent months. A recent report from Insider found that Austin had the fifth-largest net outward migration among major U.S. cities from January more...
September 5, 2023 Snapchat is expected to dethrone TikTok as the fastest-growing social media platform in 2023, according to data from OnlyAccounts.io. The photo and video-sharing app is projected to grow by 13.4% this year, while TikTok is more...
September 5, 2023 X, formerly known as Twitter, is updating its privacy policy to allow the collection of biometric data from users who sign up for its premium service, X Premium, otherwise known as Twitter Blue. The policy more...
September 5, 2023 A cybersecurity professional who chose to remain anonymous, with the name Nea Paw, has built an AI-driven propaganda machine in less than two months. The project, named "CounterCloud," demonstrates the ease and affordability of creating more...
September 5, 2023 Humanoid robots are starting to work side by side with actual people in warehouses for the first time. The latest model, Apollo, is an all-electric robot made by an Austin-based startup called Apptronik. It is more...
September 5, 2023 Huawei Technologies and China's top chipmaker SMIC have unveiled a new 7-nanometer processor for Huawei's latest smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro. The Kirin 9000s chip was made in China by SMIC, and is the first more...
September 5, 2023 USENET, the original pre-World Wide Web social network, is making a comeback. USENET, also known as NetNews, consists of countless text-only discussion forums known as "newsgroups," hosted on servers worldwide. While the original developers shuttered more...
