New market research from Counterpoint Research shows that global smartphone sales fell by 20% in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period a year ago. This is the lowest level for a third quarter since 2012. The decline is attributed to the ongoing shortage of memoryContinue Reading
Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs directly instead of processing a free-form response from a large language model (LLM). The model targets tasks such as classifying requests, prioritizing incidents, and checking AI-generated responses. Microsoft says itContinue Reading
The device has a facial recognition feature that can identify up to six specific users., The device has a facial recognition feature that can identify up to six specific users., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
PARIS (AP) — Cyberattacks disrupted European supermarket chains, affecting refrigeration systems at hundreds of stores in France and forcing a major grocer to shut down websites serving customers in Europe and the United States. French Finance Minister Roland Lescure told Parliament on Tuesday that about 700 of the country’s 10,000Continue Reading
Mozilla has a new product called Firefox Enterprise. Which is basically Firefox but built around the needs of private and government organizations. The idea is simple. If staff uses a browser for work, organizations should be able to control its settings, protect company data, and decide where its management systemContinue Reading
Remember Ubuntu’s convergence dream? One operating system across your desktop, tablet, and phone, with apps that adapt to whichever screen you’re using. Canonical pursued that vision with Unity 8 and Ubuntu Phone before pulling its investment in 2017. Now, a new project called Luma wants to tackle a similar ambition.Continue Reading
Linux Mint shook up its release schedule this year and now it’s shaking up its versioning scheme as well – the next major release won’t be Linux Mint 23, but Linux Mint 27. Releases will now be numbered by year. Linux Mint 27 will be followed by v28, and soContinue Reading
When Workday acquired Sana just about a year ago, it said that the combination of Sana’s AI with Workday’s platform would create a new “front door” to work. Today at its Workday Rising conference, it unveiled that front door, turning Sana into Workday’s default home screen that, it said, “bringsContinue Reading
Apple has launched its most serious push yet into your home, built around its attempt to normalize always-on AI with Siri. As widely expected, the new products include its much-anticipated Apple HomeView smart display, a new Apple TV 4K with Siri AI, the next generation HomePod mini 2, and Apple Home Collection, a range of homeContinue Reading
The drivers of a Rolls-Royce Phantom and BYD Sealion electric vehicle (EV) are now assisting with ongoing police investigations, after an accident near Clarke Quay left a 72-year-old woman injured. The incident happened at about 2.40pm on Friday (Oct 9), at the junction of New Bridge Road and Carpenter Street. Photographs and videos of theContinue Reading
Forum Mobility provides EV charging and electric truck leases to fleets, and is developing a network of charging depots in key freight corridors and port-adjacent locations. The company has announced plans to break ground on four new electric charging depots across California, bringing an additional 30 MW of heavy-duty chargingContinue Reading
NASA’s SpaceX 35th Commercial Resupply Services Launch – YouTube Watch On SpaceX will launch its latest cargo mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday morning (Oct. 13), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch a robotic Dragon capsule to the orbiting lab from Florida’s Cape CanaveralContinue Reading
An illustration of a supermassive black hole blasting out a jet of plasma (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Using the NASA X-ray spacecraft Swift combined with radio observations, astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole burping radio jets 300 days after a heavy cosmic meal. The team was also able to roughly estimateContinue Reading