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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: The mixed reality race between two tech titans
9Oct By adminNo Comments
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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: The mixed reality race between two tech titans

[ad_1] Apple and Meta are two of the world's biggest tech companies, and both of them have dipped their toes into a new technology recently - mixed reality. While Meta Platforms is no stranger to mixed reality, courtesy of its Metaverse and Meta Quest lineup, it has eluded Apple so far, but not anymore. At the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023 on June 5, Apple took the wraps off its first-ever mixed reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro. Although both of these headsets aim to improve mixed reality, they target different demographics. Apple Vision ProDeveloped by Apple's unit called Vision Products Group (VPG) led by Mike Rockwell, the Vision Pro is a spatial computer that allows users to experience apps and features in an augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) enviro...
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Microsoft’s Troubled Combat Goggles Get Redesign That Wins Over the US Army
6Oct By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft’s Troubled Combat Goggles Get Redesign That Wins Over the US Army

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp. has “fundamentally altered” its combat goggles, changing them from a bulky helmet to a streamlined flip-up visor to improve the prospect that soldiers will embrace the $22 billion project, according to the Army's chief weapons buyer. “The technology might have worked perfectly, but I'd still had worries before about the ‘form-factor' and way soldiers wore them,” Assistant Army Secretary Doug Bush said in an interview.The new version of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System headset is designed to project battlefield information, including the location of friendly troops, on a new visor with a wider, improved field of view. A small computer that's part of the unit was moved from the side, where it was connected by a bulky cable, to the back of the headset. Deplo...
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‘Game of Thrones’ author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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‘Game of Thrones’ author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights

[ad_1] "Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, and several novelists including Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models," algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit. "And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a massive scale," said the complaint, filed Tuesday in a New York federal court. Numerous other lawsuits have been filed by artists, ...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: McAfee unveils AI-powered product, expert calls for AI regulation and more
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: McAfee unveils AI-powered product, expert calls for AI regulation and more

[ad_1] AI Roundup: BFSI expert Alok Bansal emphasized the critical need for a unified regulatory framework in the face of rapid adoption of generative AI, especially in sectors handling sensitive data. ConveGenius just launched SwiftChat, an AI chatbot platform on Amazon Web Services, delivering personalized learning content in regional languages to government schools. In a separate development, authors, including George RR Martin, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train AI models.All this, and more in today's AI roundup. 1. “Critical Need for a Unified Regulatory Framework," says BFSI expertWith generative AI playing a crucial role in several industries, there is a critical need for regulatory guidelines around...
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Microsoft Product Chief Panos Panay Quits, in Blow to Hardware Unit
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Microsoft Product Chief Panos Panay Quits, in Blow to Hardware Unit

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp. said its chief product officer is leaving, a significant departure for the company's hardware and Windows divisions. Panos Panay will stay long enough to help his replacements transition into the role, Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of the experiences and devices group, announced in an email to employees on Monday. According to some reports, he is heading to Amazon.Panay, who had been with Microsoft since 2004, was central to the company's hardware efforts in his role leading the Surface computer division and most recently heading the Windows unit. Pavan Davuluri is being tapped to oversee operating systems, devices and chips related to desktop clients, cloud and artificial intelligence. Yusuf Mehdi will work with computer-maker and retail partnerships, Jha ...
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Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
1Sep By adminNo Comments
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Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

[ad_1] Kelly McKernan's acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist's words, is “surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey.”The word “human” has a special resonance for McKernan these days. Although it's always been a challenge to eke out a living as a visual artist — and the pandemic made it worse — McKernan now sees an existential threat from a medium that's decidedly not human: artificial intelligence. It's been about a year since McKernan, who uses the pronoun they, began noticing online images eerily similar to their own distinctive style that were apparently generated by entering their name into an AI engine. The Nashville-based McKernan,...
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Why Threads, Meta’s Twitter Killer, Needs a Desktop Version
22Aug By adminNo Comments
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Why Threads, Meta’s Twitter Killer, Needs a Desktop Version

[ad_1] On Threads, Meta Platforms Inc.'s Twitter copycat, users have been asking for weeks for a version that works on their computers. Soon, the company is expected to fulfill the wish.In the mobile age, it's not usually the desktop version of an app that makes or breaks its success. But Threads is focused on short text updates, which are sometimes easier to manage in a professional setting on a computer. Users with large followings and brands that buy advertising often keep the desktop version of X, formerly known as Twitter, open on their work computers during the day while they schedule posts, analyze performance, and manage any money they're spending on the platform. None of those features exist yet on Threads. “We're close on web,” Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who is leadin...
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In big move, govt restricts import of laptops, tablets, servers with immediate effect
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In big move, govt restricts import of laptops, tablets, servers with immediate effect

[ad_1] The Indian government has restricted the imports of items such as laptops, tablets, and servers with immediate effect, it said in a notice issued on Thursday. Announcing this crackdown, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry notified, “Import of Laptops, Tablets, All-in-one Personal Computers, and Ultra small form factor Computers and Servers falling under HSN 8741 shall be 'Restricted' and their import would be allowed against a valid Licence for Restricted Imports.”Previously, the import of items such as personal computers, microcomputers, automatic data processing machines, and mainframe computers did not carry any duty to be paid. However, their import will now be restricted. The Center further notified that the restriction shall not be applicable to imports under baggage rule...
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Coursera’s CEO Wants its Chatbot to Become Your Personal Tutor
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Coursera’s CEO Wants its Chatbot to Become Your Personal Tutor

[ad_1] Coursera Inc.'s chief executive officer Jeff Maggioncalda wants to give you an AI-generated personal tutor.The online learning platform has recently launched Coach, a chatbot tool that plugs into ChatGPT. It answers questions by sifting through and summarizing Coursera's entire curriculum. Maggioncalda offers up a quick demo to start off our interview. “Can you explain in terms that a 10-year old would understand what a convolutional neural network is,” he asks. And the AI coach almost instantly responds via text. “Imagine you have a picture of a car and you want to find out where the car is in the picture. One way to do this is to look at small parts of the picture one at a time and see if any of those parts look like a car. This is called a sliding window. A convolutional, neur...
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Vintage computer that helped launch the Apple empire is being sold at auction
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Vintage computer that helped launch the Apple empire is being sold at auction

[ad_1] A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction.The Apple-1 set in motion the company that in June became the first publicly traded business to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value, according to RR Auction in Boston. The computer has been restored to a fully operational state and comes with a custom-built case with a built-in keyboard, the agency said. The computer, which originally sold for about $666, is expected to sell for about $200,000 at an auction that runs through Aug. 24. An Apple-1 prototype sold last year for nearly $700,000. About 200 were manufactured in Steve Jobs' garage in Los Altos, California, in 1976 and 1977 and about 175 of them were sold, RR's Executive Vice President Bobby Livingston said.“It is t...
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