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Forbes

August 29 update below. This post was first published on Sunday, August 27, 2023. Every fall, Apple unveils a new set of iPhones to an eager world. Even 16 years after the first iPhone was revealed in 2007, no gadget release generates comparable …

Computerworld

Google will match rival Microsoft’s pricing with its Duet AI assistant, which is available as an add-on to customers in its Enterprise tier – at $30 per user each month.

MIT Technology Review

Assessments designed for humans, like high school exams and IQ tests, take a lot for granted. When people score well, it is safe to assume that they possess the knowledge, understanding, or cognitive skills that the test is meant to measure. (In practice, …

BBC News

Google is trialling a digital watermark to spot images made by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to fight disinformation. Developed by DeepMind, Google’s AI arm, SynthID will identify images generated by machines. It works by embedding changes to …

CNET

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WBAL Baltimore

Researchers asked voice assistants eight questions that a bystander might pose in a cardiac arrest emergency. In response, the voice assistants said: — “Hmm, I don’t know that one.”.

CNN

Apple announced its fall special event on Tuesday, sending out press invites for the morning of September 12th. Invitees will get to attend in-person at the Steve Jobs Theater inside Apple Park, the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, while …

Nature.com

Using designed ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins) technology, we discovered an α-helical conformation of the third variable (V3) loop on the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein that renders the virus susceptible to broad …

CNBC

Brad Smith, president and vice-chairman of Microsoft, said that AI, like any other technology, has “the potential to become both a tool and a weapon.” That is why we need human control to “slow things down or turn things off,” he told CNBC in an …

Investopedia

Tech heavyweight Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) announced a slew of new products and enhancements aimed at dominating the artificial intelligence landscape at its Cloud Next conference.1. Key Takeaways. Google to compete with Microsoft in premium subscription …