Apple lays off 600 engineers after canceling car project — largest layoff since the pandemic
A few weeks ago, Apple canceled its long-standing project to create a self-driving electric car, and has now announced the layoff of 614 employees — according to documents provided to the California Employment Development Department (although Mark Gurman notes the actual figure may be much higher).
Alphabet + HubSpot: Google's owner is considering a $35 billion acquisition of a software company
HubSpot offers cloud-based software for automation, online marketing and sales
Microsoft and Quantinuum announce «breakthrough» in quantum computing — 14 thousand experiments without errors
Quantum computers could make real scientific calculations that would take conventional machines millions of years to complete. At the same time, the fundamental unit of quantum computers — the so-called «qubit» — although fast, is very finicky.
China has oversaturated the market with solar panels — in some places they are used to build garden fences
The country accounts for 80% of the world’s solar panel production.
Copilot in Microsoft 365 will offer access to GPT-4 Turbo «unlimited» and improved image generation
Microsoft 365 business subscribers will be able to use GPT-4 Turbo through Copilot (AI assistant) without daily session limits.
Amazon closes cash registers Just Walk Out — «AI triumph» was the result of thousands of Indian workers
The Just Walk Out technology allowed people to shop without a cash register — they simply scanned a QR code at the entrance, and Amazon relied on sensors and cameras to track what people were leaving the store with.
All on AI. How NVIDIA's revenue structure has changed over the past 5 years (infographic)
Following the AI boom, the key revenue drivers of the largest US chipmaker have changed dramatically.
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan — TSMC evacuates factories
According to seismologists, this is the most powerful earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years — there are deaths, dozens of buildings collapsed.
301 Tbps over conventional fiber optic cable — scientists create new optical processor
Fast fiber-optic communication is becoming more and more widespread, but it also has limitations. The work of British researchers will allow these cables to provide much faster data transmission…
AT&T data breach affected about 73 million active and former subscribers of the American telecom giant
The American telecommunications company AT&T began to study the data published on the darknet about two weeks ago and preliminarily found that the leak affected approximately 8.6 million active account holders and 65.4 million former customers.
Gmail is — 20 years old. April Fools' Day «joke» Google, which has become the world's most popular email service
On April 1, 2004, Google revolutionized email by launching Gmail.
Apple says iPhone 6 Plus is now «obsolete» and iPad Mini 4 — «vintage»
Apple calls a product «obsolete» if 7 years have passed since it was last officially distributed for sale — this means that the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Service Providers will no longer offer repair or other hardware service for the device.
Not just in the EU: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office 365 for customers worldwide
Teams, which was added to Office 365 for free in 2017, later replaced Skype for Business and became popular during the pandemic in part due to video conferencing. However, in 2020, Salesforce, which offers a rival messaging app called Slack, filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft over the merger.
Backdoor found in xz Utils of Linux distributions. Urgent call to abandon Fedora
A backdoor has been discovered in the popular xz Utils package for lossless data compression and working with the .xz format Backdoor is a method of bypassing standard authentication procedures, unauthorized remote access to a computer.
Microsoft is testing a grid layout for programs in the «Start» menu in Windows 11
The new design is somewhat reminiscent of the «Start» menu in Windows 10X and the Microsoft Launcher on Android.
Google believes that Rust programming language is twice as efficient as C++
Google believes that the efficiency of developers using the Rust programming language is twice as high as when using C++.
Adobe Firefly now generates images and styles from thumbnails — 10 examples of how to use Structure Reference
Structure Reference allows Adobe Firefly users to generate images and styles based on existing sketches or sketches without wasting time on text prompts that the model usually doesn’t understand the first time.
Goodbye, Lenna. Scientists were banned from using the legendary 1972 Playboy photo to illustrate articles
A fragment of a digitized portrait of Swedish model Lena Forsen, featured in a November 1972 Playboy spread, has been widely used in scientific papers to test and illustrate image processing algorithms (compression, noise reduction, blurring, etc.).
Microsoft's new security system «catches» hallucinations in Azure customers' AI programs
Microsoft’s Responsible Artificial Intelligence team has developed several new security features for customers of the Azure AI Studio platform.
Google leaked the timing of RCS implementation on iPhone
Apple is likely to introduce a new RCS messaging standard in the fall, which should replace SMS/MMS.
Apple sues ex-IOS engineer who «leaked» data on Vision Pro and other products to journalists
Former iOS software engineer Andrew Ode is accused of leaking information about more than a dozen Apple policies and products — including the Journal app and Vision Pro headset.
Yoga, massage and full all-inclusive: journalists visit Google's new $2.1 billion office
In February, Google opened a new office worth $2.1 billion.
«Kyivstar» raises prices — from April 9, the monthly fee for 20+ subscription tariffs will increase by an average of 30%
«Kyivstar» announced new wave updating of tariffs, which will also affect subscriptions — this time, the terms and conditions of those that have not been updated since last year and earlier will be revised. The new terms and conditions for more than 20 tariffs will come into effect on April 9.
From now on, each of the US federal agencies must appoint a «chief AI officer»
According to the latest guidelines from the US Office of Management and Budget, all federal agencies must appoint a senior officer and governing boards to oversee all AI systems used internally.
GPT Store «deflated»? In February, customized chatbots accounted for 1.5% of visits to the ChatGPT website
OpenAI expected personalized chatbots to boost its business, but recent data shows that few people are interested in them.
Xi Jinping on restrictions on chip exports: «No power in the world can stop China's technological progress»
Recently, the Chinese president and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte met in Beijing to discuss the semiconductor industry. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated after the Netherlands, along with the United States, blocked the export of advanced chip technology to China over concerns that it could be used for military purposes.
10 largest oil producers in 2023 — USA + Saudi Arabia = 28% of production
Last year, the three countries contributed a total of 32.8 million barrels per day to global oil production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Israel has launched a massive facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, — The New York Times
The images are compared to a database of Palestinians allegedly linked to Hamas.
Musk says Tesla Optimus robot should cost «half the price of a car» — and will soon support 5G
It’s been a little over two years since Elon Musk announced that Tesla was moving toward developing humanoid robots. The company has moved quickly enough showed the first prototypes (one assembled model that barely moved, and another that stood on a stand and waved to the audience), and later the second generation of robots that have received…
«Tamagotchi for buzzers» from Rabbit gets a voice thanks to ElevenLabs technology
Rabbit plans to release the first series of its pocket companions with artificial intelligence next month for $200.
Zoom unveils Workplace, a large-scale AI platform for collaboration
Zoom has introduced the new Zoom Workplace, an AI-powered collaboration platform with Zoom AI Companion capabilities.
SCARF camera is capable of shooting at 156.3 trillion frames per second
Scientists have created an extremely fast scientific camera that captures images at an encoding rate of 156.3 THz for individual pixels, equivalent to 156.3 trillion frames per second. The research-grade SCARF (swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography) camera could lead to a breakthrough in the study of micro-events that appear and disappear…
The best phones without OS: the golden days of Sony Ericsson
Smartphones have almost completely replaced proprietary mobile phones without an operating system, but this was not always the case. Moreover, before the advent of Apple iOS and Google Android, the best phones without OS were no less functional and convenient than smartphones, and the most advanced of them were not Nokia or Samsung, but Sony…
iOS 18 with artificial intelligence and a new home screen — what to expect from the «biggest update» in iPhone history
It is expected that iOS 18 will be presented at this year’s Apple WWDC 2024 developer conference, scheduled for June 10.
What do you think, Hollywood? 7 new videos generated by OpenAI's Sora with tips from directors, writers and artists
OpenAI is constantly publishing new videos generated by Sora neural network based on conventional text prompts, but the tool is still not available to the public — except for a select group of artists who have been given the opportunity to test the new product.
«Black» Starlink — terminals are sold in bulk illegally around the world [Bloomberg investigation]
Starlink advertises its high-speed Internet as «available almost anywhere in the world», but in practice its distribution officially ends in territories where the company does not yet have a permit to operate or in countries with repressive regimes. At the same time Bloomberg investigation has found numerous examples of Elon Musk’s…
Mark Zuckerberg «recruits» Google DeepMind researchers through personal emails, — The Information
Meta CEO is looking for artificial intelligence talent.
lifecell has expanded the availability of 5G in roaming — the list includes 47 countries. When in Ukraine? Soon
lifecell announced the expansion of the list of countries where 5G is available to its subscribers. The list now includes 47 countries.
Next-generation supersonic aircraft Boom XB-1 makes its maiden flight
The first private supersonic aircraft has taken to the skies since the Concorde was decommissioned two decades ago. On March 22, the Boom XB-1 supersonic demonstrator completed its maiden flight at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California.
Apple, Meta and Google — are under investigation by the EU. Tech giants «suspected» of violating the new Digital Markets Act
If the suspicions are confirmed, companies face fines of up to 10% of global annual revenue or up to 20% in case of repeated violations.
China bans the use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers
China has introduced new rules that ban the use of American AMD and Intel processors in government computers and servers, and block Microsoft Windows and foreign databases in favor of domestic solutions, reports Financial Times.
WhatsApp plans to put Meta AI right in the search bar
The popular WhatsApp messenger is working on placing Meta AI right in the search bar.
GitHub has launched a new AI tool and can now fix vulnerabilities in the code on its own
GitHub has launched the first beta version of a new feature that automatically finds and fixes security vulnerabilities in code while it is being written.
Catapult on steroids. Chinese railgun will launch ships with crew into space
To get astronauts into space, an incredible amount of fuel is needed (for example, the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo mission carried 770,000 liters of kerosene, as well as liquid oxygen as an oxidizer), So researchers have long been exploring alternatives to rockets — such as space elevators, kinetic launch systems (which spin a rocket…
«Kyivstar» was the first to launch eSIM connection with an online contract (via BankID and «Diia»)
«Kyivstar» simplified eSIM connection — order an electronic SIM-map with contract connection is now available online (identification through the NBU BankID service or the «Diia» app). Previously, contract subscribers had to visit a store with a passport or sign documents via a courier to get an eSIM, so «Kyivstar» was the first to introduce…
More than 40% of Ukrainians cannot recognize AI-generated text — Kantar Ukraine survey
A February survey by Kantar Ukraine shows that Ukrainians are actively following the development of AI: almost 79% of respondents know what it is, but only 29% have used the technology in practice.
AMD announces FSR 3.1 and releases AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 with support for Dragon's Dogma 2
During the Game Developers Conference (GDC), AMD has unveiled a new version of its FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3.1 scaling and frame generation technology, which offers a number of key updates:
Pay extra for tweets: Elon Musk launches new API subscription for developers at X (Twitter)
Social network X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday launched a new subscription service in its API for developers.
Unreal Engine 5.4, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, and mobile EGS. What Epic Games showed at GDC
On the evening of March 20, Epic Games held its annual State of Unreal at GDC 2024 — during the hour-long presentation, they showed the trailer for Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra on UE5 and announced the launch of a mobile digital store on iOS and Android in 2024. We have collected the most interesting announcements and news.
Paralyzed patient with Neuralink chip shows how to play chess on a computer «with the power of thought»
Noland Arbeau, 29, who was partially paralyzed after a diving accident 8 years ago, became the first person to have a Neuralink «chip implanted in his brain.
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