As more EV automakers come online, Tesla has laid off workers. Tesla’s latest round of layoffs include its entire Supercharger team. Tesla has been in employee cutting mode since the beginning of 2024 with plans to layoff 10% of its workforce. We’re not giving up anything that is significant that I’m aware of. Elon Musk...
Yesterday, Apple acknowledged an issue some iPhone users are experiencing with their alarms. What’s Happening? Some iPhones aren’t activating their alarms. Despite the number of alarms, loudness of alert, and haptic feedback iPhones aren’t blaring and blazing when the alarm is up. This has caused some users to oversleep and miss appointments. The Today Show...
It didn’t take long, but the reviews are in. After a fantastic fall and winter 2023 hype campaign, the AI Pin is being panned by the technorati. You may remember me hyping the AI Pin myself last winter. It also made 2023’s Annual Gift Guide. Humane, the company behind the AI Pin, and its founders...
This week, Chinese officials at the country’s Ministry of Industry and Telecom have ordered the country’s largest telecommunications companies to remove Intel and AMD chips from their networks. US-Sino Tech War heated up again this week. China’s largest technology agency has given China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom until 2027 to remove products containing...
Earlier this week, Nolan Arbaugh, a 29-year old, quadriplegic, Neuralink patient live-streamed a game of chess he played. He was able to control the computer by using the Neuralink implant in his brain. Arbaugh suffered a diving accident which left him quadriplegic, but has found a way to control his senses using the Neuralink chip....
It’s not like you really needed another reason to quit Facebook, but news originating out of a federal court paint Facebook as a company willing to use any means necessary for advantage. Including means no security professional would authorize. A federal court in California unsealed documents detailing an in-house spy program called Project Ghostbusters to...
It’s no secret artificial intelligence is killing the planet. ChatGPT consumes a half-million kilowatt hours of electricity daily. That’s 17,000 times the daily usage of an American household. Just as the mood around AI begins to sour, Nvidia announced its latest GPU, the Blackwell, that cranks out 20 petaflops at 25% of the power of...
It’s not the world’s premier data privacy law, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but it does offer a great deal of data privacy for Americans. Albeit, ham handedly. Yesterday, in another show of bipartisan spirit, the US House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act. The bill prohibits...
Talk about cheating. To be filed in the, “do what I say, not what I do,” column. In a stunning turn of events; teachers, after lamenting the potential impact ChatGPT may have on the integrity of essay education, have turned to a GPT powered tool to grade their students’ work. Writable a Generative AI teaching...
There’s no shortage of examples of corporate AIs running rampant. What is rare is an AI company employee taking a responsible stance on the technology. Earlier this week, Shane Jones, a Microsoft software engineering manager sent an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft’s Board of Directors regarding the dangers of the company’s...