The German automaker announced a plan to accelerate its transition to battery-powered vehicles and bolster operations in China and North America.
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Microsoft Teams is adding 3D avatars for people who want to turn their webcams off
Enlarge / Customizing a Mesh for Teams avatar. Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business attire from the waist up. (credit: Microsoft) There are plenty of reasons to turn your camera off during a Zoom or Teams meeting—maybe you’re cleaning your office and you don’t want to look like you’re...
Amazon unveils three satellite user terminals, plans broadband service in 2024
Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon’s Project Kuiper. (credit: Amazon) Amazon has designed three satellite broadband user terminals and will start offering Internet service in 2024, the company announced today. The standard terminal, designed for residential and small business customers, is expected to cost Amazon less than $400 to make; Amazon did...
OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning text output that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to OpenAI. Also on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat has been running on GPT-4 all along. If it performs...
Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase
Enlarge (credit: Don Farrall/Getty Images) In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that’s part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At the time, LVHN said that the attack “involved” a patient photo system related to radiation oncology treatment. The health care group said that...
The fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse spreads to an Indian tech company.
Nazara Technologies, a mobile gaming company, said two of its subsidiaries had together more than $7.7 million in balances at the failed bank.
Making Deepfakes Gets Cheaper and Easier Thanks to A.I.
Meme-makers and misinformation peddlers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to create convincing fake videos on the cheap.
An AI Start-Up Boomed, but Now It Faces a Slowing Economy and New Rules
Using A.I. tools in hiring is one of the most promising and contentious uses of the technology. The experience of a company called Eightfold AI shows the challenges.
California Court Mostly Upholds Prop. 22 in Win for Uber and Other Gig Companies
The decision lessens the chances that gig drivers will be considered employees in the state, but it is expected to be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
After Bank Debacle, Silicon Valley Reckons With Its Image
Even as start-ups and investors began recovering their money from Silicon Valley Bank, the episode exposed the tech industry’s vulnerabilities.