The launch of a major Windows 10 update isn’t the end of a process — it’s really just the beginning. As soon as one of Microsoft’s twice-yearly feature updates is released, the company quickly gets to work on improving it by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new […]
Once it was fashionable to fret about the prospect of super-intelligent machines taking over the world. The past year showed that AI may cause all sorts of hazards long before that happens. The latest AI methods excel at perceptual tasks such as classifying images and transcribing speech, but the hype […]
New design, more colors: Microsofts gives new look to 100 mobile apps icons Microsoft also gives Windows 10 a new take on the classic four square grid. Microsoft has released the first developer preview of .NET 5, its next major release of the .NET family that’s set for general availability […]
George F. Will once said: “The future has a way of arriving unannounced.” Well, George, we don’t agree: Announcing the release of Home Assistant Core 0.107! This release brings a crazy amount of awesome new features and beautiful improvements to the frontend. Bye old State UI As announced with 0.105, […]
Microsoft today claimed that Windows 10 powered a billion devices, a milestone the company originally said it would meet between one and a half and two and a half years ago. “Over one billion people have chosen Windows 10 across 200 countries resulting in more than one billion active Windows […]
Regina Barzilay’s office at MIT affords a clear view of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Amgen’s drug discovery group is a few blocks beyond that. Until recently, Barzilay, one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence, hadn’t given much thought to these nearby buildings full of chemists and […]
I’m already expecting Apple to pull the plug on WWDC 2020. It would be dumb to bring 6,000 from all around the globe to California to rub shoulders with Apple’s top brass and indispensable engineers. Even if COVID-19 goes the way of seasonal flu once temperatures start to warm up, […]
In December 2019, an outbreak of a novel Coronavirus also called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), began in the Wuhan region of China. This virus can cause the COVID-19 disease. This novel Coronavirus is spreading globally at a disturbing rate, which keeps everybody on top of the news. The […]
Windows 7 users who missed the operating system’s mid-January support deadline weren’t in any hurry last month to dump the operating system. According to data published Sunday by American analytics company Net Applications, Windows 7 shed just four-tenths of a percentage point in February, ending the month at 25.2%. Windows […]
Last Thursday (Feb. 14), the nonprofit research firm OpenAI released a new language model capable of generating convincing passages of prose. So convincing, in fact, that the researchers have refrained from open-sourcing the code, in hopes of stalling its potential weaponization as a means of mass-producing fake news. While the impressive […]
