The inability to share data easily and reliably between a smartphone, laptop, or desktop has been a source of aggravation for Windows PC users who also possess an iPhone. Apple has solidified a strong ecosystem reputation with its products and core device operating systems by highlighting the advantages of enabling files, text messages, and even the continuity experience between its Mac computers, … [Read more...]
Microsoft Bumps Up Limits on Bing AI Chat Turns
Less than a week after it imposed search limits on the AI version of its Bing search engine, Microsoft is raising those limits. In the wake of some embarrassing reports of erratic behavior by the new Bing, Microsoft decided last Friday to limit a user’s daily usage to five chat “turns” per session and 50 turns per day. A turn consists of a question by a user and an answer by Bing. At the … [Read more...]
Generative AI Is Immature: Why Abusing It Is Likely To End Badly
I’m fascinated by our approach to using the most advanced generative AI tool broadly available, the ChatGPT implementation in Microsoft’s search engine, Bing. People are going to extreme lengths to get this new technology to behave badly to show that the AI isn’t ready. But if you raised a child using similar abusive behavior, that child would likely develop flaws, as well. The difference would be … [Read more...]
Tips To Help Mask Your Identity Online
Digital crooks — whom cybersecurity experts and law enforcement officials politely call bad actors — use elements of modern-day cyber communications to track your online activities. These elements are hiding in plain sight, but they are easy to reveal once you know where to find them. You can toss around false clues to hide your activities or at least leave some misdirections behind to keep … [Read more...]
Windows 365 and the Coming Abyss in the PC Market
Personal computer sales recently began to slow down to levels not seen since early 2020, before the pandemic turbocharged the PC space. By all estimates, PC manufacturers are battening down the hatch for yet another challenging year after shipments fell markedly in 2022. The pandemic-fueled sugar high of PC shipments that the industry saw in 2020 and 2021 began dissipating last year. Most industry … [Read more...]
‘Father of Internet’ Warns Sinking Money Into Cool AI May Be Uncool
Vint Cerf, known as the father of the internet, raised a few eyebrows Monday when he urged investors to be cautious when investing in businesses built around conversational chatbots. The bots still make too many mistakes, asserted Cerf, who is a vice president at Google, which has an AI chatbot called Bard in development. When he asked ChatGPT, a bot developed by OpenAI, to write a bio of him, it … [Read more...]
Excess Exuberance, Not ‘Bossism’ Behind Rash of Tech Layoffs
Tech layoffs have been grabbing headlines recently, for good reason. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has laid off 12,000, about 12% of its workforce. Facebook’s parent Meta has chopped 11,000 workers from the rolls, and IBM slashed 3,900 employees, 1.5% of its global workforce. All told, 1,045 tech companies laid off 160,097 workers in 2022, and this year, 344 tech firms have already issued … [Read more...]
Microsoft Wakes Up the World Once Again With ChatGPT Bing and Browser
Microsoft last week announced it is putting ChatGPT in its Bing search engine and that it would only work through its new Edge browser. AI in general, and generative AI in particular, are game changers because they are capable of doing not only more for you, but they can be made to interact with you as if it was a person. This is a huge advantage, and Google clearly was caught napping. Ironically, … [Read more...]
Microsoft Ups Ante for Online Search With New AI-Powered Bing Engine, Edge Browser
Microsoft may have ushered in a paradigm shift Tuesday with the release of new versions of its search engine, Bing, and web browser, Edge — both now powered by artificial intelligence. The new offerings, available in preview at Bing.com, combine browsing and chat into a unified experience that improves both tasks. When searching, for example, more relevant results are displayed, and for … [Read more...]
OpenAI Exec Admits AI Needs Regulation
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati stoked the controversy over government oversight of artificial intelligence Sunday when she conceded in an interview with Time magazine that the technology needed to be regulated. “It’s important for OpenAI and companies like ours to bring this into the public consciousness in a way that’s controlled and responsible,” Murati told Time. “But we’re a small group of people, and … [Read more...]
The Metaverse in 2023: Doomed or Just Growing Pains?
The metaverse may have a new place in the retailer consumer experience, but it is off to a dismal start in becoming much of a business communication outlet. Consumer attraction to today’s metaverse indicates a significant shift in how people use technology. If the metaverse begins to exist and function in totality, marketers clearly should not miss out, notes Marcel Hollerbach, co-founder and … [Read more...]
Otherweb Can Help Avoid Fake News Embarrassment
Nothing is more embarrassing than sharing or forwarding something that you think is true and then getting slammed because whoever got it knows better and thinks you’re an idiot. Back when I worked for a multinational, I’d send out an email newsletter of things I thought were interesting and applicable to our work. Folks were fine with that until I forwarded something about our company that wasn’t … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023: Hollywood, Look Out
It’s no secret that the smartphone has dramatically cannibalized the traditional digital camera space over the past several years. According to Statista, worldwide revenue for digital cameras was US$21.26 billion in 2022, down from a high of $29.03 billion in 2014. At Wednesday’s Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event in San Francisco, Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S23 series. Judging by the specs and new … [Read more...]
Cyber Forecast for 2023 and Beyond: Hang on for a Bumpy Digital Ride
The year 2023 offers lots of promise and a whole lot of insecurity on the digital pathways — both for personal and business encounters. Technology continues to bring innovative business solutions while it also poses seemingly unsolvable cybersecurity challenges. Retail website crashes and supply chain disruptions used to be seasonal annoyances. Now they result from targeted cyberattacks. The FBI … [Read more...]
The Cloud Has Pushed Identity to its Breaking Point. What’s Next?
The hardest part of identity and access management (IAM) technology is making it work with multi-vendor infrastructure and the growing number of applications that enterprises rely on to get business done. Primarily this is because the last-mile integration of applications and identity systems have traditionally been hard coded to allow for the exchange of information about a user, their identity, … [Read more...]
China Delivers Its First Practical Quantum Computer System to a Customer
China’s Science Ministry on Monday announced that the country’s first practical quantum computer was delivered to a user, which the agency didn’t identify, a year ago. The 24-qubit Wuyan system based on superconducting technology was built by Origin Quantum Computing Technology, a company founded in 2017 by two of the country’s leading quantum physicists, Guo Guoping and Guo Guangcan. A qubit in … [Read more...]
Gmail Creator Predicts AI Will Totally Disrupt Google Search in 1 to 2 Years
The most popular search engine on the internet may be headed for some rough sailing in the next one or two years, according to the creator of Gmail. During that time frame, artificial intelligence will eliminate the need for search engine result pages, which is where Google makes most of its money, and even if the search giant deploys AI to catch up, it can’t do it without destroying the most … [Read more...]
Why Tech Jobs Are Vaporizing
Almost every major tech company is experiencing a round of layoffs, even though most are making good profits. Many people have never seen vast layoffs like this, so the honest question is, why is this happening? Is it fashion, fatigue, or something more secular to blame? You can’t rule out fashion in a monkey-see, monkey-do way. Since there’s reasonable overlap between many tech companies, … [Read more...]
How To Add a Stunning View to a Home, Office, or Apartment – Anywhere
I’ve been considering the concept of digital views for a while now. With the issues surrounding weather change, living where some of the best views exist is not only expensive, but with rising sea levels and the potential for flooding, ocean views come with undesirable risks as well. I once dreamed of living where I could see and hear the surf. Now? Not so much. But what is a view worth? All else … [Read more...]
Nvidia’s Eye Contact Effect Changes the Game for Video Content Creators
Videoconferencing, podcasts, and webinars surged in popularity during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 as remote work became part of the new normal. With the pandemic now in the rearview mirror, video communications techniques have shown no sign of slowing down. What’s been amusing to me is that despite the pervasiveness of video communications, how unflattering we often appear on camera using … [Read more...]
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