2023-09-18 12:00
How companies are putting embedded genAI to good use
ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and other public-facing generative AI chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) are nice enough, but they’re general-purpose and not well integrated into enterprise workflows. Employees either have to go to a s
2023-09-15 21:40
Critical updates for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio drive September's Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released 59 updates in its September Patch Tuesday release, with critical patches for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, and continued the trend of including non-Microsoft applications in its update cycle. (Notepad++ is a notab
2023-09-15 18:27
Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs
Low-code software company Airtable announced its second round of job cuts in nine months, laying off around 237 people, or approximately 27% of the company.
2023-09-15 17:40
iPhone 12: Fade away, and radiate?
What’s up with the iPhone radiation story? On the eve of Apple’s big iPhone 15 reveal, France demanded the company remove iPhone 12 from sale in that country because it said the product radiates too much.
2023-09-15 13:48
Amazon deploys generative AI to write sales listings
Amazon has launched a new generative AI tool that creates copy listings for users selling items on the company’s e-commerce platform.
2023-09-15 12:00
5 steps to a lean, clean Windows machine
These days, a relatively clean and uncomplicated Windows 10 or 11 system disk might be home to more than 250,000 files and 90,000 folders. A more complex, application-heavy system disk might contain between half a million and a million file
2023-09-14 19:23
This year's biggest tech IPO begins as ARM hits Nasdaq
The year’s most hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in tech opened at the starting bell this morning, with ARM Holdings’ (ARM) stock beginning the day on Nasdaq at $51 per share. That’s the cost per share for the 10% of th
2023-09-14 19:21
EU said to be proceeding with Microsoft Teams antitrust investigation
The European Union is reportedly planning to move forward with a formal complaint against the way Microsoft sells Teams, even though the company publicly announced in August it would start unbundling the collaboration app from Office and
2023-09-14 13:19
Does Apple’s double-tap gesture solve the mobile/human interface problem?
Smartphones are arguably more powerful than PCs. Consider that the iPhone 12, at 11 teraflops, outperformed the Cray 2 supercomputer by over 5000 times. And that’s a now-three-year-old phone.
2023-09-14 12:00
AI language models need to shrink; here’s why smaller may be better
Large language models (LLMs) often appear to be in a fight to claim the title of largest and most powerful, but many organizations eyeing their use are beginning to realize big isn’t always better.