Category: Tech
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Apple’s MacBook Pro Touch Bar Was Announced 10 Years Ago Today
Apple introduced the Touch Bar 10 years ago today. At its “Hello again” event on October 27, 2016, Apple pitched the OLED Multi-Touch strip as “revolutionary.” It replaced the MacBook Pro’s function keys and divided users from the start, arriving…
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AI success depends on business outcomes, not usage vanity metrics
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Imagine a NASCAR team where leadership decides the winner is the car that burns the most fuel. The crew chief tunes every…
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The Future of Wet Cat Food Dispensers Is Here. My Review of Neakasa Riko
Excellent for hydrating expensive freeze-dried pet food and decent for other dry food types.John Carlsen/CNET After a health scare a couple of years ago, my cat spent a while on a wet food diet before I finally got him back to dry food with…
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‘My social life completely plummeted’: gen Z is fighting back against big tech
Nelissa Moukoudi, 19, a university student in Canada, noticed a shift once she joined Instagram and TikTok.“My social life completely plummeted and it felt like my life was only [using] social media and school,” she said.Tired of fighting for…
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CurrentBody Series 3 review: a fully customisable LED mask that helps exactly where you need it
CurrentBody’s LED masks have long been my favourite. They’re comfortable, simple to use and effective. My previous favourite, the now-discontinued CurrentBody Multi Light Therapy LED mask, offered five treatments that used different light…
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Southern Cross Credit Union asks AI agent to handle account balance requests
Key points Southern Cross Credit Union has deployed an AI agent called Nova to handle inbound calls from customers seeking account balances. Built in six weeks with Salesforce forward deployed engineers, Nova is the…
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OpenAI Announces New Discoveries In Mathematics, Computer Science And Physics
It formed groups of experts to examine and explain the results. …
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Mozilla Festival returns to Barcelona with a focus on community-led tech
What would technology look like if it were built by communities rather than controlled by a handful of companies? That question sits at the heart of this year’s Mozilla Festival, which returns to Barcelona from October…
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Agentic AI could strengthen financial-crime prevention, but governance, cost hurdles limit adoption: McKinsey
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) could reduce the time banks spend on know-your-customer (KYC) processes by 30 to 70 per cent, improving efficiency in financial-crime prevention, but high human oversight…
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UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups
The UK’s policy on datacentres and AI was developed without any meetings with environmental groups, an investigation has found.The nonprofit organisation Spotlight on Corruption said a “considerable revolving door” shaped the government’s…