2024年2月29日 星期四

Here's what tech giants are betting on next — from robot dogs to smartphones you can wear on your wrist


Quite a lot was on display at the Mobile World Congress in Spain: Samsung showed off the Galaxy Ring and other players revealed concept smartphones designs.

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Tech companies aim to harness nuclear fusion in ways never been done before


Globally, more than 40 tech companies are experimenting with 20 different methods in hopes of recreating the same type of energy process that has powered the sun and other stars for billions of years.

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2024年2月27日 星期二

AI chatbots' inaccurate, misleading responses about US elections could threaten voter turnout, report finds


Chatbots such as GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini are prone to suggesting voters head to polling places that don’t exist or inventing illogical responses based on rehashed, dated information, the report found

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2024年2月26日 星期一

Samsung debuts a ‘smart ring' with health-tracking features — its first foray into the product category


Samsung's Galaxy Ring, its latest wearable, is launching with tracking features including heart rate and sleep monitoring.

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2024年2月25日 星期日

Chinese tech firm Lenovo shows off a laptop with a see-through screen


Chinese tech giant Lenovo showed off a prototype laptop on Monday that has a see-through screen.

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Huawei spin-off Honor shows off tech to control a car with your eyes and chatbot based on Meta's AI


Honor demonstrated eye-tracking technology in the Magic 6 Pro as it launched the device into international markets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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A hot pink Barbie flip phone is launching this summer


HMD, the company behind Nokia phones, is launching a Barbie flip phone in partnership with the brand’s creator Mattel.

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2024年2月24日 星期六

Smartphone giants like Samsung are going to talk up ‘AI phones' this year — here's what that means


Smartphone makers such as Samsung will talk up artificial intelligence on their phones this year. But what exactly is an AI smartphone?

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2024年2月22日 星期四

AT&T says US cellphone network outage was not caused by a cyberattack


AT&T says the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack.

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What to know about Emergency SOS on iPhone


Many iPhone users only had access to SOS mode during an AT&T outage on Thursday. Here is everything to know about Apple's Emergency SOS.

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2024年2月21日 星期三

‘Machine customers' are already among us, and they number in the billions


With connected devices proliferating in the growing internet of things infrastructure, IT leaders need to be prepared for the age of the machine customer.

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FDA warns against using smartwatches that claim to measure blood sugar levels without needles


Smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar levels for medical purposes without piercing the skin could be dangerous and should be avoided, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday.

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Apple releases free new sports app for iPhone


Apple announced its free Apple Sports app on Wednesday. It launches Feb. 21 in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

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2024年2月20日 星期二

Video of man wearing Apple Vision Pro prompts reminder from police to ‘cross streets the old-fashioned way'


San Diego police spoke out after footage surfaced showing the man walking across a street while accessing a virtual menu.

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2024年2月19日 星期一

Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don't want it to replace them


Video game studios pay professional actors to voice the soldiers, goblins, elves and aliens that populate virtual worlds. Some are also starting to use artificial intelligence to generate synthetic voice clones that can save money or bring more characters to life.

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2024年2月15日 星期四

OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, unveils tool that instantly makes short videos from written commands


The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands.

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2024年2月13日 星期二

Amid artificial intelligence boom, AI girlfriends – and boyfriends – are making their mark


The generative artificial intelligence boom has led to the emergence of more companion chatbots. Similar to general-purpose AI chatbots that answer typical questions, companion bots use vast amounts of training data to mimic human language.

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2024年2月12日 星期一

OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments' could make artificial intelligence dangerous


The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreck havoc.

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2024年2月11日 星期日

Elon Musk must testify in SEC probe of his Twitter takeover


A judge ordered Elon Musk to testify in a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning his 2022 acquisition of Twitter.

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2024年2月9日 星期五

Biden administration announces $5 billion investment in research and development of computer chips


The Biden administration is announcing an investment of $5 billion in a public-private consortium aimed at supporting research and development in advanced computer chips.

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2024年2月7日 星期三

Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute


The Biden administration is making plans to name a top White House aide as the director of the newly established safety institute for artificial intelligence.

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2024年2月1日 星期四

Amazon announces AI shopping assistant called Rufus


Amazon is rolling out an assistant that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users search and shop for products.

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Mark Zuckerberg's long apology tour: A brief history


Mark Zuckerberg has accumulated a long history of public apologies, often issued in the wake of crisis or when Facebook users rose up against unannounced — and frequently unappreciated — changes in its service. It’s a history that stands in sharp contrast to most of his peers in technology, who generally prefer not to speak publicly outside of carefully stage-managed product presentations. But it’s also true that Facebook has simply had a lot to apologize for. Zuckerberg was back in damage control mode on Wednesday when he apologized to the parents of children exploited, bullied or driven to self harm via social media.

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