Amazon to launch satellite internet service in 2025, targeting global market
Amazon plans to begin offering satellite internet service in the second half of 2025, moving into direct competition with SpaceX’s Starlink and other global providers. The company is currently building a $120 million satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That site will serve as a final assembly point before Amazon’s Kuiper […]
Amazon in “bricking” it’s $2,350 Astro robots after only 10 months
Amazon is set to deactivate all Astro for Business robots on September 25, less than a year after their launch as security devices for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Initially priced at $2,350, these robots will soon join Amazon’s list of discontinued products. Amazon introduced Astro in September 2021 as a home robot. This version […]
Amazon pushes back on public perceptions of “Just Walk Out” technology
Amazon is pushing back against perceptions that its “Just Walk Out” technology is exaggerating the capabilities of its AI. Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology allows shoppers to pick items and leave the store without traditional checkout processes, using a combination of sensors, cameras, and AI. However, recent reports from Gizmodo and The Information suggested that […]
Hashtag Trending Jan.30- Google’s Bard may be reading your email; Siri to get an AI makeover? The demise of the floppy disk
Google’s Bard could be reading your email, rumours that Siri will finally get an AI makeover, the NSA is once again under pressure to stop buying your browser data from data brokers and we mourn the demise of the floppy disk. Anyone born after the year 2000 may have to google that one. These
Hashtag Trending Jan.29- LLMs learn to hide dishonest behaviour; Tech layoffs a strategic move? 90 per cent of spreadsheets have errors
AI models can learn to hide their dishonest behaviour, Open AI is making it easy for anyone to call multiple GPTs from a single conversation, are mass layoffs with huge earnings and share values a strategic thing for big tech? And a study claims that 90 per cent of spreadsheets have errors. All this
Hashtag Trending Jan.8- Cybersecurity challenges in 2024; Tech companies still cutting back; OpenAI sued for copyright infringement
2024 promises to have more cybersecurity challenges including a continued shortage of cybersecurity workers. Are tech companies quietly continuing to cut back. OpenAI is sued for copyright infringement – again. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and Tech News Day in the US. As we dive into 2024, cybersecurity experts
Hashtag Trending Dec.15- Dropbox’s new AI feature raises privacy concerns; Intel’s AI-enabled chip for PCs; X’s ad revenue continues to plunge
Dropbox communication slip up has users thinking their AI search may compromise their privacy, Intel launches its AI enabled chip for PCs. What might be behind OpenAI’s partnership with a German publishing group and our final installment of the X files for 2023. The Musk is out there. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO
Hashtag Trending Dec. 6- Mass produced humanoid robots coming soon; U.S. government warns NVIDIA not to ship AI chips to China, Time to rethink the Turing test?
Mass produced humanoid robots are coming, the U.S. government is warning NVIDIA not to ship AI chips to China. HP’s printer lock-in strategy is unpopular but profitable and is it time to rethink the Turing test? These and more top tech stories on Hashtag Trending I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World
Hashtag Trending Nov.30-Amazon’s new generative AI assistant; Cyber pros less likely to get fired post-incident; AI can acquire skills through social learning?
Amazon’s new generative AI assistant, Amazon Q, sounds a lot like OpenAI Q. Are cyber professionals less likely to get fired after a major cybersecurity incident? And AI threatens to kill clergy jobs. These and more top tech stories on Hashtag Trending. I’m your host James Roy. AWS is not lagging behind, just ‘re-invent’-ing
Hashtag Trending Nov.27- Meta’s inaction on the presence of under 13 users on its platforms; TCS, Nvidia code theft debacle; Levandowski’s AI church
Presence of users under age 13 on Meta’s platforms: an “open secret”, Nvidia hit with code theft lawsuit, FTC extends cloud scrutiny to generative AI and a church worshipping artificial intelligence to soon resuscitate. These and more top tech stories on Hashtag Trending. I’m your host James Roy. In October, 41 states sued Meta
