A really great article on Ars Technica highlights the struggle AI assistants like Alexa and Siri are having making money. Amazon is expected to lose an eye popping $10 billion from last year’s purchases of Amazon Alexa and other devices. $3 billion of that is tied to Alexa Assistants Struggle to Make Money Since 2014,...
To be filed in the, well duh column. Hackers attacked crypto ATM machines made by General Bytes to steal millions in Bitcoins from would be users. What Happened? Crypto ATMs work differently than a standard ATM machine. Instead of an ATM debit card, users enter credentials to connect to a Crypto Application Server that manages...
Microsoft is soft-pushing a new AI assistant destined to change the way professionals work. Copilot is an AI-powered assistant for Microsoft Office. The assistant will help you write cleaner documents and teach you how to use Office products while doing it. What Is Copilot? Software engineers using Microsoft’s software development tool, Visual Studio, have had...
For more information on ChatGPT and GPTs read our previous article. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this geeked out about a technology. I haven’t been this excited since the Pentium. I’m going to try my hardest to write this article hype-free, but it’s damned hard. I haven’t geeked out about performance specs...
If you’re reading this, the first 3D printed rocket may have blasted off. Relativity Space is a company trying to revolutionize how rockets are built. The company has been trying to get its 3D printed rocket off the ground since 2019. They are really, really close. Yesterday’s launch was aborted due to an automatic launch...
Again for those in the back. Mapp’s Modus on Machines After being ridiculed in the AI press, Google answers with PaLM-E. PaLM-E is a visual language model. This type of model incorporates computer vision with language. This allows someone to control a robot using plain English commands instead of low-level programming. How Does It Work...
The US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted along party lines (24-16 R) to give the Biden administration the authority to ban TikTok. This represents the most far reaching restriction on any social networking app in the United States. The TikTok controversy began in the Trump administration when he was personally leading the charge to have...
Microsoft announced plans to support iPhone iMessage users in their latest Phone Link upgrade. Microsoft is making the latest Phone Link available for Windows Insider users who have access to preview copies of Windows. The application will allow iPhone users to send and receive messages and make calls using their Windows desktop. Phone Link will...
The blue check used to mean something. A Blue Check Used to Mean Something Once upon a time, you had to amass a large following and share something worth while to get recognized on social media. Ease of anonymity, and the ability for trolls to sound like a popular social media-lite, prompted social networks to...
Reports are coming out of Apple stating the company is closer to a prick-free blood glucose monitoring system for the Apple Watch. Apple is saying the blood-monitoring device is at proof-of-concept stage and can be brought to market once it’s smaller. The system uses lasers to gauge glucose concentration under the skin. For anyone who...