It's rare that we see a moment with products as familiar and established as laptops, that an important shift is about to happen. This new chip from Qualcomm feels like one of those moments. https://youtu.be/iryLKvhsgrU
In her opening keynote at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris, Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), spoke of AI being in an "irrational exhuberance" phase, meaning that expectations are moving well ahead of delivery.
Meet the group of persistent gamers called Team 0% who have dedicated years to completing levels of Nintendo's Wii U Super Mario Maker. What started as just a fun "what if" project has progressed into a collective mission to clear the last and final uncleared level, which can only be achieved before April 8 when Nintendo shuts down Wii U's gameplay servers.
A self-proclaimed professional troll thinks internet users need to be better at spotting satire and online disinformation after he was found to be at the centre of a fake Reba McEntire and Taylor Swift feud that circulated on social media.
Social media giant Reddit is going public tomorrow. Here's how much it's seeking to raise, what its IPO means for the company and how Redditors are reacting.
Some companies are looking at how "digital humans" can transform businesses by becoming virtual sales reps, customer service agents and even DJs, but the question remains...will they take jobs away from people?
Art Meets Science: This week sports fans will be perfecting their March Madness brackets to predict which teams will succeed, and some are using AI technology to help.
I tried to just cover the "news" on this one, but I'm still too emotionally invested in how these social media services keep getting worse. https://somegadgetguy.com/2024/03/15/reddits-ipo-i-hope-it-fails/
I hope Reddit's IPO fails. It probably won't though...
Yael Tauman Kalai, recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing, has developed groundbreaking methods for succinctly verifying the correctness of a computation. Recently she sat down with Leah Hoffmann to discuss how they work. Read it here via CACM's relaunched #OpenAccess website: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/verifying-correctness/
EU lawmakers approved the world's first AI law yesterday, which is expected to take effect in May or June of this year. Here's how the AI act will work, how it could influence regulations in other countries and what happens next. https://flip.it/RszcTH
Who is Jeff Yass? The American billionaire has been accused of bankrolling lobbyists and orchestrating a pressure campaign to protect TikTok from being banned in the U.S. Here's what he stands to lose if Chinese parent company ByteDance is forced to divest the popular short-form video app.
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#ReplayCrew! Give us a share! This week was a news heavy block with a LOT to talk about! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/41e#SGGQA 339 - Apple Caves on Epic Ban, Pixel 8 Wont Get Gemini, Nikon Acquires RED, Windows Dumps Android Apps
Video replay on the link, and audio should be out soon on all your fave Podcast apps!
Anyone trying out Newsmast? Pretty interesting project—one that brings back the old feelings of the breaking-news firehose on Twitter in the early 2010s. Probably going to write about this in Tedium soon. https://newsmast.org/ #technology#technews#tech
Oof this is scary shit to me, a dangerous situation if a hacker group got source code to comb for more exploits or enable easier ways of software-based infiltration. Microsoft truly dropped the ball, and their reassurances don't mean much for those who will be screwed due to their poor choices.
🔒 Meta announces plans for interoperability between #WhatsApp, Messenger, and third-party messaging services, maintaining end-to-end #encryption in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act.