Qualcomm’s Gen AI Opportunity To Balance Innovation With Ethics

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Qualcomm has aggressively developed and integrated generative AI capabilities across its extensive semiconductor line for the past few years. For those few people who have been entirely off the information grid, AI uses intelligent algorithms to produce new and original material, such as photographs, images, movies, and music, based on data already present. Qualcomm’s generative …

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Amazon to pay $30M over Alexa, Ring privacy violations

Amazon has agreed to pay $25 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle charges over privacy violations linked to its digital assistant, Alexa. In a separate case, Amazon-owned Ring will pay $5.8 million over violations of users’ privacy. First, let’s look at the Alexa case. It involves alleged violations of children’s privacy rights, …

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Next-gen GPUs look like they’ll be absolutely massive

MSI As some of the best graphics cards only get bigger and bigger, manufacturers continuously need to come up with new cooling solutions that can keep the temperatures at bay. To that end, MSI has just unveiled a few of its latest coolers during Computex 2023. We’ve got some innovative options here, such as a …

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Study Predicts Women Hit Hardest

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A new report from a human resources analytics firm found that artificial intelligence threatens to replace a disproportionate number of jobs typically held by women. According to researchers at Revelio Labs, their findings reflect social biases that have funneled women into roles ripe for AI replacement, such as administrative assistants and secretaries. Revelio arrived at …

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Thousands of delivery robots to join Uber Eats

Uber ditched its work on developing self-driving cars in 2020 but in recent weeks the company has signaled that it’s still interested in exploring elements of autonomous technology for its services. This week, for example, it’s emerged that Serve Robotics is planning to expand its tie-up with Uber Eats to deploy 2,000 of its diminutive …

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Disgraced tech mogul Elizabeth Holmes begins jail time

Disgraced tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday to begin serving time for fraud in a case that rocked Silicon Valley. Holmes was convicted by a California court in 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors over failed blood-testing technology, and in November was sentenced to 11 years and three months in jail. …

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The Importance of Microsoft’s Blueprint for Public Governance of AI

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Many technology leaders agree that while AI could be hugely beneficial to humans, it could also be misused or, through negligence, terminally damage humanity. But looking to governments to address this problem without guidance would be foolish given that politicians often don’t even understand the technology they’ve used for years, let alone something that just …

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Nvidia’s supercomputer may bring on a new era of ChatGPT

Nvidia Nvidia has just announced a new supercomputer that may change the future of AI. The DGX GH200, equipped with nearly 500 times more memory than the systems we’re familiar with now, will soon fall into the hands of Google, Meta, and Microsoft. The goal? Revolutionizing generative AI, recommender systems, and data processing on a …

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Best Memorial Day Sales 2023: Deals you can shop today

It’s Memorial Day, and the Memorial Day sales are in full swing. But with each retailer claiming to offer the biggest discounts in town, finding the best Memorial Day deals and products worth buying will seem like an impossible task. Fortunately, Digital Trends is here to help: We’re cataloging all of the best Memorial Day …

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Elon Musk throws some light on his very busy schedule

If you have a hard enough time holding down one job, then it’s little surprise that Elon Musk’s three high-profile roles cause his days to be “long and complicated.” Musk, who is currently CEO at Tesla, SpaceX, and until recently at Twitter, offered some insight into his busy schedule during an interview at the The …

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