One of the hallmarks of new technology is that, at first, it’s often worse than the one it replaces. I remember sitting in my apartment sometime in the late-1990s and spending a weekend ripping my CDs into MP3s only to get a hard-drive crash and lose all my data on Sunday night. I had a … Read more
Xiaomi, Honor, and other Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been competing to offer handsets with large batteries. A recent report indicated that Honor could be working on a new addition to the Power series that would pack a 10,000mAh battery. According to a tipster, Xiaomi’s sub-brand Redmi is also developing a handset that might ship with … Read more
Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency-friendly administration is set to usher in America’s “golden age of crypto,” quickly enabling digital asset trading at the federal level and also embracing decentralized finance (DeFi), according to a preview of a keenly-awaited report from the White House later today. Much of what is highlighted in a concise fact sheet from the … Read more
Microsoft is reportedly developing a new feature for Copilot, which could be powered by OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5 model. As per the report, Copilot is getting a new “Smart” mode, which can automatically deduce when to apply reasoning for a query and when to switch to fast responses. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also mentioned that … Read more
Blender is developing a standalone tablet app, with an initial test version set to launch on the App Store for iPad Pro models that support the Apple Pencil. The company plans to expand availability to Android devices and other graphic tablets later. Blender has also shared early design previews of the app. The company plans … Read more
The US chip designer and computing firm Nvidia on Wednesday said it is teaming up with Microsoft to build a “massive” computer to handle intense artificial intelligence computing work in the cloud. The AI computer will operate on Microsoft‘s Azure cloud, using tens of thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs), Nvidia‘s most powerful H100 and its … Read more
It has been more than a decade since Apple announced its voice-assistant Siri. The trigger phrase for Siri has also not changed since it was integrated with iOS. Today, Siri is available on every Apple product that runs on the company’s iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and iPadOS operating systems. It can be triggered by speaking … Read more
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s natural language processing (NLP) based chatbot, has taken the internet by storm ever since it was made available for public testing in November last year. The generative AI model is expected to take a massive leap with the introduction of GPT-4, which will succeed the currently utilised GPT-3 autoregressive language model. The update … Read more
India’s crypto market is not an easy one to let go of for Binance, that is now working on making a re-entry into the country. Touted as the largest exchange for cryptocurrencies in the world, Binance recently lost operational permits in India because it did not meet the compliance guidelines laid out by the Indian … Read more
Apple surely raised a few eyebrows with its svelte iPad Pro models that arrived in 11-inch and 13-inch flavours this year. Along with these slim and premium iPads, Apple also introduced new accessories, one of which was the brand-new Magic Keyboard. With a metal palm rest, a row of function keys, and a larger trackpad, … Read more