Drone delivery startup Zipline expects to dramatically increase its business in Rwanda, the country where it first started operations, thanks to a broader contract with the African country’s government announced Thursday.Zipline’s unmanned, self-pil…
There’s a new AI bot in town: ChatGPT, and you’d better pay attention.The tool, from a power player in artificial intelligence, lets you type questions using natural language that the chatbot answers in conversational, if somewhat stilted, language….
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) will announce on Tuesday it’s building a second new factory in Phoenix to manufacture cutting-edge processors. That’s big news for companies like Apple, AMD and Nvidia, whose chief executives will join P…
Neuralink, the Elon Musk startup that hopes to get our brains to link directly to computers, on Wednesday demonstrated how a monkey named Sake could type by using just its mind to control a virtual keyboard.The monkey didn’t know how to spell, but i…
Neuralink, the neurotechnology startup co-founded by Elon Musk that’s aiming to directly connect our brains to computers, has been silent since it dropped a “mind Pong” demonstration to YouTube last April. Over the last few months, Musk ha…
Leap seconds, used for a half century to synchronize the Earth’s rotation with atomic clocks, are being phased out. That’s a boon for tech giants that are worried about the adjustment’s technical risks.Timekeeping authorities from around the world v…
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Intel’s revenue and profit continued to drop during hard economic times and a years-long effort to reclaim its technology lead, but a layoff and other cost cutting measures helped buoy the stock.
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Adobe on Wednesday debuted a video-editing technology called Project Blink that uses AI to recognize words, people, objects and even emotions in a video to speed up editing. The AI analysis essentially gives a word processing interface to video…
Google got my attention by boasting about the Pixel 7 Pro phone’s “pro-level zoom” and asserting that the phone’s photography features can challenge traditional cameras. I’m one of those serious photographers who hauls around a bulky camera and a bu…
The industry group behind USB published an update to the data transfer standard on Tuesday that doubles top speeds to 80 gigabits per second. But it’s also got another trick that should help people with heavy data transfer needs: an ability to reach…
Adobe’s Lightroom software now uses new AI technology to select objects, people, clothing and facial features in an attempt to make photo editing faster and more powerful.The new technology is available in Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and the smartp…
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Samsung has a new horse in the never-ending race t…
When watching Tesla debut its humanoid Optimus robot at AI Day 2022, it’s entirely fair to be skeptical about the company’s grand plans. The robot’s shuffling gait was plodding compared with the exciting parkour and flips of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, …