Tombstone of Internet Explorer browser, set up by South Korea’s software engineer Jung Ki-young, at a rooftop cafe in Gyeongju, South Korea, June 17.JUNG KI-YOUNG/Reuters For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft Corp’s decision to retire its Internet Explorer web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology. To … Read more
Now head of the nonprofit Distributed AI Research, Gebru hopes that going forward people focus on human welfare, not robot rights. Other AI ethicists have said that they’ll no longer discuss conscious or superintelligent AI at all. “Quite a large gap exists between the current narrative of AI and what it can actually do,” says … Read more
AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may commission as an Amazon Associate and earn affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Apple’s Craig Federighi says Apple is aware of criticisms of Stage Manager on iPad, and fixes were already planned for forthcoming beta releases. One of the … Read more
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) While Google’s multiple antitrust cases continue to drag on here in the US, it looks like the search giant’s starting to make a few concessions across the pond. Reuters reports that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has made an offer to European Union regulators in response to an ongoing investigation into … Read more
A senior Google software engineer has claimed one of the company’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) programs has become sentient, complete with its own feelings and desires for mutual respect. According to the New York Times, Google placed the engineer, Blake Lemoine, on paid leave on Monday. The company’s human resources department claimed this was … Read more
AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may commission as an Amazon Associate and earn affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Apple’s new M2 is the start of a new Apple Silicon generation. Here’s how the M2 fares when compared against the already-released M1 family of chips. … Read more
AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may commission as an Amazon Associate and earn affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Apple’s overhaul of the iOS 16 lock screen was an “act of love” to make the iPhone even more personal, according to Apple SVP of Software … Read more
Rocket firm Astra Space’s mission to send tiny weather-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space, according to the company’s livestream of the mission. The failure occurred roughly 10 minutes after a successful liftoff of Astra’s Rocket 3.3 from a launchpad at the Cape Canaveral … Read more
AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may commission as an Amazon Associate and earn affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. WWDC is both exciting and nerve-wracking for developers as Apple adds new products that are great — but directly compete with them. Here are the announcements … Read more
Photo: Ryan Anson/AFP (Getty Images) Apple CEO Tim Cook believes augmented reality is the future. We know this because, for the past few years, he hasn’t stopped talking about the potential of this nascent technology. He didn’t, however, even mention it during WWDC despite multiple reports suggesting Apple might use the event as a springboard … Read more
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