GM announced plans to promote their own in-car phone software experience Ultifi in place of CarPlay and Android Auto. They are accelerating plans to build a new system with 2024 Chevy Blazer being the first car without CarPlay and Android Auto. GM is hustling in a bid to capture more driver and passenger data. The...
Technology is the equalizer. Technology’s constant march of progress brings us a stream of new products and improvements on ways of doing business. We often think the latest and greatest technologies are drop in replacements obsoleting what’s come before. We get a new iPhone, and sell or giveaway our old one. We ditch over-the-air TV...
As Marvin and Tammi once crooned many moons ago, ain’t nothin’ like the real thing baby. Well, now in 2023, it’s sometimes hard to ascertain what’s real. Seemingly every week, a new AI (artificial intelligence) generated song is making the rounds on social media. Every Tom, Dick and Timbaland (more on that later) with access...
FDA: Gene-edited Sausages Safe. Unless They’re Not. Washington State University has produced sausages made from gene-edited meat. The US Food and Drug administration has authorized Washington State to allow gene-edited pig meat to enter the food supply. This new food innovation is being led by Professor Jon Oatley. Oatley is a professor in WSU’s School...
Recently, audio engineer Young Guru went viral for voicing his concerns with artificial intelligence voice filters. He was reacting to a specific social media video of a man using a Kendrick Lamar AI voice filter. The software, Tacotron 2, allowed the man to do a spot-on replication of Kendrick’s voice. Pretty neat, huh? Not according...
It is always a pleasure when Mark Starling comes to town. We didn’t get a chance to rip and roar all over the Nation’s capital this time. No late night creeping around dark alleys off Kalorama St NW. No 1 o’clock cab ride pondering McRib’s return down M St NW. No having the wife drop...
It seems like everyone is trading cryptocurrencies these days. Everyone from Elon Musk to your grandmother are praising the benefits of cryptocurrencies but what are people really trading? 60% of Americans own cryptocurrencies in exchange for their hard earned cash. We’re joined by Cleve Mesidor, Director of the National Policy Network for Women of Color...
Happy Friday! This month’s episode of The Cloud features Dr. Kofi Nyarko, Director of Morgan State University’s Center for Equitable AI and Machine Learning Systems, and Gabriella Waters, CEO of Progressive Heuristics. We break down artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and explore the technology’s impact on people of color. We also talk about Google’s...
I’ve been busy. Trying to get a comic out and a book. I’ve started this year’s annual gift guide and a few cool items are up. It’s Thursday, and I’m back in the chair with Mark Starling, Seth, John, and the First News 570 crew. This week’s top tech stories: un-real estate sells for millions,...
It’s a couple of days after Election Day, and the US electorate is still hanging in the balance. A plethora of memes have been floating around the Internet as the country awaits the outcome. Including one comparing the American public waiting for a definitive result to someone waiting for the results of an STD test....