Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Intel is planning its first major layoffs in almost six years, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that layoffs will “likely” affect thousands of its 113,700 employees, particularly in its sales and marketing departments, and that they could happen as soon as this month. Bloomberg says that...
Enlarge / A preview of Microsoft Designer’s AI text-to-image feature, which can generate images from written prompts. (credit: Microsoft) During a Surface press event today, Microsoft announced integrations of AI-powered image-generation technology into its Bing search engine, Edge browser, and a new Office app called Microsoft Designer. The technology will be powered by DALL-E 2...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images /) With AT&T’s and Verizon’s 5G battle against the aviation industry mostly behind them, the carriers have significantly boosted wireless speeds with their newly deployed spectrum. From March to September, AT&T users’ average download speeds rose 34.6 percent from 50Mbps to 67.3Mbps. Verizon users’ average 5G download speeds...
A vote this week at a warehouse near Albany, N.Y., will help show whether the upstart union can win outside its home base on Staten Island.
A former Uber employee created an app to help drivers. The platforms that hire them are fighting back.
When the world’s richest man isn’t tweeting, he’s flying to Burning Man, trying to impress comedians and hopping on yachts.
Meta’s push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year.
Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets. He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth.
Enlarge / Which Steve Jobs is the real one? (credit: Ars Technica) A voice synthesis company based in Dubai published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices digitally cloned from both men. It takes place during the “first episode” of a purported podcast series called “Podcast.ai,” created by Play.ht,...
Enlarge / Unsurprisingly, getting a standard amd64-based Linux image installed as a virtual machine on an ARM-based Mac results in sadness. (credit: Kevin Purdy) Nearly four years after its last major release, VirtualBox 7.0 arrives with a… host of new features. Chief among them are Windows 11 support via TPM, EFI Secure Boot support, full...