Google Maps is getting 3 big features to help you plan vacation more easily

With the summer season just around the corner, people will soon start exploring places for their vacations, which means that the usage of Google Maps is going to shoot up. Right before that happens, Google has announced that it is adding three new features to Google Maps for Android and iOS, which will make the […]

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A Crypto Company Thinks It Can Help Fight Climate Change

It started at a hackathon a few years ago near Trafalgar Square, in London. Raphaël Haupt and James Farrell got to talking about how to use the growing popularity of blockchain and cryptocurrencies to help combat climate change. The result was Toucan, a project founded by the duo, which aims to revolutionize carbon offsetting. To […]

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Google DeepMind’s New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner

Working with player-tracking data from 7,176 corners taken in the Premier League during 2020 and 2021, the researchers began by representing the arrangement of players as a graph, with the players’ position, movement, height, and weight encoded as nodes on the graph, and relationships between players as the lines between them. Then they used an […]

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Soundcores reveals Sleep A20 earbuds to help you catch some Z’s

Soundcore revealed the next iteration of their sleep-focused earbuds, the Sleep A20. Timed with World Sleep Day (a “holiday” I never knew existed but am tempted to celebrate), these earbuds promise improvements in noise masking, comfort, and battery longevity over their predecessors, the A10.

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Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It must periodically forget what it knows. And while this new approach won’t displace the huge models that undergird the biggest apps, it could reveal more about […]

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Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That

To achieve real climate solutions, changing behavior and developing technology is not enough, says Michal Nachmany, founder and CEO of the environmental nonprofit Climate Policy Radar. “A lot of this is policy,” she says. We need better laws, policies, and regulations, as well as needing to hold policymakers and corporates to account, because they’re not […]

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Qualcomm flexes generative AI muscles in Snapdragon X Elite vs Intel Core Ultra test, and it now has an AI Hub to help developers

What you need to know Qualcomm AI Hub just launched, giving developers access to over 75 AI models that are optimized to run on Qualcomm processors. Those models can be used to perform on-device AI tasks, such as image generation, voice recognition, and real-time translation. Running AI models on a device rather than relying on […]

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Would You Let Siri Help to Write Your Messages?

As part of its generative AI push, Apple is expected to feature tight integration between Siri and the Messages app in iOS 18. We won’t have a fuller idea about how that will work until Apple previews ‌iOS 18‌ at WWDC in June, but in the meantime, Google has just announced its own equivalent feature […]

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Maybe these two cool new Microsoft Paint features could help you be the next Picasso

What you need to know The Microsoft Paint app just got a new update with two new features. The update brings a new brush slider and a new tile to the Layers panel for a better drawing experience with more customization options. These features are only available for Windows Insiders in the Dev and Canary […]

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Chrome for Mac Gains ‘Help Me Write’ Generative AI Feature

Google today announced the launch of a new “Help me Write” feature that is available for the Chrome browser on both Macs and Windows PCs. It is a tool that is able to help users start writing something, or refine something that’s already been written. Help me Write uses the Gemini model that Google announced […]

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Apple Developing AI Tool to Help Developers Write Code for Apps

Apple is working on an updated version of Xcode that will include an AI tool for generating code, reports Bloomberg. The AI tool will be similar to GitHub Copilot from Microsoft, which can generate code based on natural language requests and convert code from one programming language to another. The Xcode AI tool will be […]

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Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible?

After a big mistake on his first run, Daniel Yule assumed he was out of the men’s slalom at this season’s Alpine Ski World Cup. “I’d already packed my bags, and I was ready to go back to the hotel,” he said in a TV interview after last weekend’s event in Chamonix, France. Instead, his […]

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Even Microsoft Copilot can’t help Bing touch the dominance in search from Google

What you need to know Bing’s market share in search remains stagnant despite Microsoft’s heavy investment in AI. Its market share stood at 3.4% at the end of last year, with Google asserting its dominance in the category with a whopping 91.6%. Microsoft could potentially be in a position to make up for this after […]

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Samsung’s new Smart Monitor M8 gets spatial audio, can help during workouts

Samsung has unveiled its new Smart Monitor M8, a monitor designed for those who want their display to double up as a smart TV. On the sidelines of the ongoing CES 2024 expo, Samsung has introduced a minor upgrade to its popular Smart Monitor M8, bringing deeper integration with its ecosystem of wearables. Let us […]

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Samsung’s new Smart Monitor M8 gets spatial audio, can help during workouts

Samsung has unveiled its new Smart Monitor M8, a monitor designed for those who want their display to double up as a smart TV. On the sidelines of the ongoing CES 2024 expo, Samsung has introduced a minor upgrade to its popular Smart Monitor M8, bringing deeper integration with its ecosystem of wearables. Let us […]

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Samsung’s new Smart Monitor M8 gets spatial audio, can help during workouts

Samsung has unveiled its new Smart Monitor M8, a monitor designed for those who want their display to double up as a smart TV. On the sidelines of the ongoing CES 2024 expo, Samsung has introduced a minor upgrade to its popular Smart Monitor M8, bringing deeper integration with its ecosystem of wearables. Let us […]

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Spying on Beavers From Space Could Help Save California

For the first time in four centuries, it’s good to be a beaver. Long persecuted for their pelts and reviled as pests, the dam-building rodents are today hailed by scientists as ecological saviors. Their ponds and wetlands store water in the face of drought, filter out pollutants, furnish habitat for endangered species, and fight wildfires. […]

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Samsung verifies CXL memory interoperability with help of Red Hat

Samsung has announced that it has completed the verification of CXL (Compute Express Link) memory modules. The verification was done in a real-time environment with the help of Red Hat, an open-source software provider. This will help with the expansion of the ecosystem around CXL memory in the industry. CXL memory modules have been verified […]

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Historic deal with ASML to help Samsung gain advantage in 2nm chips

A few weeks ago, Samsung Electronics boss Lee Jae-yong embarked on a business trip to the Netherlands to make important business deals with semiconductor chip equipment maker ASML. He joined the South Korean president on a 4-day official trip after the Dutch King Willem-Alexander invited them to the Netherlands to discuss several chip deals. Samsung […]

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Microsoft celebrates Copliot’s first anniversary with a new Deep Search tool that could help dethrone Google from its search dominance

What you need to know Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot, Copilot, is about to improve, with many new features shipping to the platform early next year. Features include Deep Search, integrating OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo model into Copilot for a better search experience. Some features highlighted, like the DALL-E 3 model, are already available. Keeping with the celebratory […]

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