Author: Hunter

On Friday, Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, upped his investigations into Big Tech by sending subpoenas to 16 major tech companies, asking whether the federal government had pressured them into using artificial intelligence to “censor lawful speech” – a new front in his long-running quest to prove the tech… Read more

The company pitches its proposal as a way to counter China’s AI advances. Google makes a similar argument for weakening copyright restrictions. Read more

Lovelace Studio is using generative AI to build Nyric, a tool that can help bring gaming worlds to life for player builders who work in harmony.Read More Read more

Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used to shut… Read more

Google is finally moving on from Google Assistant. The company will be upgrading “more” users from Google Assistant to Gemini “over the coming months,” according to a blog post. The classic Google Assistant “will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores” at some point “later… Read more

Attending an IEEE conference is an opportunity to learn about the latest advances in technology, meet some of the world’s leading researchers, and network with thought leaders and industry practitioners. Last year IEEE held nearly 2,300 conferences in 109 countries. The research from these cutting-edge events comprises more than 72 percent of the IEEE Xplore… Read more

The new M4-powered MacBook Air only hit stores on March 12, but it’s already on sale. You can pick up the 13-inch entry-level configuration with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $949 ($50 off) at Amazon (at checkout) and Best Buy if you’re a My Best Buy Plus and My Best Buy Total… Read more

When I saw iRobot’s latest robot vacuums announced this week, my first thought was, “These don’t look like Roombas; they look like midrange models from Roborock, Ecovacs, and Dreame.” Of course, as the original robot vacuum manufacturer, iRobot’s products likely inspired the design of most of its competitors. But Roombas have always had a uniqueness… Read more

A first-of-its-kind study from Yale and Johns Hopkins tested an AI program at three emergency rooms to see if it could help nurses make quicker, more accurate decisions and speed up patient flow. Here’s what happened. Read more

A federal judge has once again blocked California’s landmark online child safety law from taking effect. In a ruling on Thursday, US District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman granted a preliminary injunction in favor of NetChoice, saying the technology trade group’s claims that the law violates the First Amendment would likely succeed. The law, called… Read more