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Manufacturing firms make early bets on the industrial metaverse
Manufacturing firms are already investing in a range of technologies that could serve as the building blocks for the industrial “metaverse,” but the end of goal of fully interconnected, immersive environments is likely to take longer to realize.The metaverse concept...
Got a Google Pixel Fold or Pixel Tablet? Find this secret setting this second
Google's Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet may not look like siblings, but the two 2023 flagship Android offerings actually have a surprising amount in common.And i's not just that they're the first Pixel devices in their respective categories of folding phones and tablets,...
Google adds its Bard chatbot to Gmail, YouTube, Docs and other apps
Google today announced it is embedding its conversational,Bard chatbot into many of its most popular apps, allowing users to get human-like responses to questions, summarize Gmail messages, and search Google Docs and Youtube.Bard is in heated competition with other...
Google launches another appeal against 2017 EU antitrust ruling on shopping service
Google has once again sought to overturn a €2.4 billion ($2.6 billlion) fine imposed by the European Union in 2017 after it found the company had violated antitrust rules by using its dominant position in the search engine market to illegally promote its comparison...
Smartsheet adds generative AI capabilities to work management platform
Work management software company Smartsheet unveiled its next-generation platform today, debuting features designed to provide users with new generative-AI powered capabilities at scale.Work in the Smartsheet platform centers around “sheets” that contain information...
Jamf touts Jamf Pro 11 at JNUC, its annual Apple IT admin event
Now in its 14th year, the world’s biggest event for IT admins who manage Apple hardware, the Jamf Nation User Conference kicks off today in Austin, Texas with Apple-related insights from Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and other big names in tech management and...
Experts: ‘Quiet cutting’ employees makes no sense, and it’s costly
Companies are increasingly using role reassignments as a strategy to sidestep expensive layoffs, according to some tech industry experts. But they see it as generally short-sighted and likely to do a company more harm than good.As with last year's 'quiet quitting'...
UK regulator outlines AI foundation model principles, warns of potential harm
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has warned about the potential risks of artificial intelligence in its newly published review into AI foundation models.Foundation models are AI systems that have been trained on massive, unlabeled data sets. They...
Apple again upsells users to the iPhone 15 Pro Max
Apple once again appears to have upsold the world to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and while demand once again exceeded supply when orders began Friday, somewhere in Cupertino the bubbly was likely flowing as the company's initial stockpile of the iPhone Pro Max sold out in...
Google US antitrust trial: A timeline
Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the U.S. government, which allege that the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of its competitors and the detriment of the public at...
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 separate app, or companies have...
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 notable addition, with Autodesk...