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The Touch Bar is back, sort of...and it looks terrible

ENIAC is building a touch bar, called the Flexbar, for Macs and almost any other platform you can imagine.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Review: Miko Mini is a fun and affordable AI bot for kids

Large language model AI has been a leap forward for me in how I use technology. So naturally, ChatGPT is something that my 7 and 11 year old kids are already familiar with, but there isn’t an AI that they interact with regularly. Enter , a fun and affordable AI bot that’s designed to create a safe and engaging environment for kids. The AI component is LLM powered so the bot is naturally conversational, and Miko has a...

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

AWS SageMaker is transforming into a combined data and AI hub

The next-generation of SageMaker will make accessing data assets and wide-ranging tools to make the most of them faster than ever.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Stellantis and Samsung to get $7.54 billion federal loan for two EV battery factories

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The Department of Energy preliminarily approved another loan to help fund the construction of electric vehicle battery factories in the US. This time, a joint venture between Stellantis and Samsung SDI will receive $7.54 billion to build two EV battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana. The project is expected to create 3,200 jobs, as well as 2,800 operations jobs at the...

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

Book Travel Tuesday flight deals at Southwest, American, and more

Flying in 2025? Get flight deals by booking on Travel Tuesday. Post-Cyber Monday travel deals include up to 30% off at Southwest and $599 American flights to Europe.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

AWS says new Bedrock Automated Reasoning catches 100% of AI hallucinations

AWS updated Bedrock with two new capabilities, one to let large models teach smaller models and another to catch and correct hallucinations.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

AWS Bedrock upgrades to add model teaching, hallucination detector

AWS updated Bedrock with two new capabilities, one to let large models teach smaller models and another to catch and correct hallucinations.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Google Messages starts rolling out latest text field redesignΒ 

After abandoning the previous design a few months ago, Google Messages is back with another redesign of the text field. more…

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: 9to5Google favicon 9to5Google

Apple Touch Bar turns into a $119 standalone gadget β€” Flexbar features a 10-inch aluminum body with a 2K AMOLED display that communicates with a USB-C cable

This standalone touch bar will let you fully customize it to your taste and preferences.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Tom's Hardware favicon Tom's Hardware

Amazon Q Business is adding new workflow automation capability and 50+ action integrations

Amazon Q Business extends productivity with generative AI-powered workflow automation capability and 50+ actions for enterprise efficiency, enabling seamless task execution across tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and Asana.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

New capabilities from Amazon Q Business enable ISVs to enhance generative AI experiences

New Amazon Q Business capabilities help ISVs integrate with the Amazon Q index to retrieve data from multiple sources through a single API and customize the design of their Amazon Q embedded assistant.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

Peter Todd advocates for space miners: ’Economics might make sense’

Though Todd denies it, an HBO documentary recently claimed he was the real Satoshi Nakamoto and inventor of Bitcoin.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Cointelegraph favicon Cointelegraph

Amazon SageMaker gets unified data controls

It’s been close to a decade since Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced SageMaker, its platform to create, train, and deploy AI models. While in previous years AWS has focused on greatly expanding SageMaker’s capabilities, this year, streamlining was the goal. At its re:Invent 2024 conference, AWS unveiled SageMaker Unified Studio, a […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Amazon’s Q Business AI agents get smarter

A year ago, AWS announced Q, its AI assistant platform for business users and developers. Q Developer is getting a wide range of updates today and so is Q Business. The focus for Q Business is on new integrations that can help businesses bring in more data from third-party tools, the ability for third-party platforms […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests

Enhancing coding productivity, Amazon Q Developer agents now offer capabilities for auto-generating documentation, conducting code reviews, and creating unit tests within IDEs and GitLab.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

U.S. government says Salt Typhoon is still in telecom networks

The United States and other Western nations released guidance Tuesday designed to evict the China-linked group in the wake of the high-profile hack. The post U.S. government says Salt Typhoon is still in telecom networks appeared first on CyberScoop.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: CyberScoop favicon CyberScoop

Apple Pay can be used to buy cryptocurrency now

Apple users can buy cryptocurrency directly through Apple Pay thanks to crypto exchange Coinbase.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Apple releases visionOS 2.2 beta 4 ahead of full launch soon

Apple has released visionOS 2.2 beta 4 for developers. The new software version brings us closer to the expected RC and wide launch soon. Here’s what to expect from the latest beta. more…

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

Amazon launches Nova AI model family for generating text, images and videos

Nova Reel outperformed Runway's Gen-3 Alpha in A/B testing, achieving winning rates of 61.4% for video quality.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

FTC takes action against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for selling location data

Article URL: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/ftc-takes-action-against-gravy-analytics-venntel-unlawfully-selling-location-data-tracking-consumers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42309429 Points: 73 # Comments: 65

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Popular Tech News Site The Verge Goes Behind a Paywall

Some parts of the website will remain free.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

ChatGPT’s search results for news are β€˜unpredictable’ and frequently inaccurate

Illustration: The Verge Based on testing done by Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism researchers, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool has some issues when it comes to responding with the truth. OpenAI launched the tool for subscribers in October, saying it could give β€œfast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.” Instead, Futurism points out that the researchers said ChatGPT search struggled to correctly...

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

Emergence’s AI orchestrator launches to do what big tech offerings can’t: play well with others

It aims to sit above the fray and work well with any application and vendor that the enterprise uses, uniting them all with its orchestrator.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

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Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET (preview)

Unlock Linux's power with Amazon Q Developer's transformation capabilities for .NET porting – effortlessly modernize .NET applications from Windows to cross-platform .NET in your familiar IDE.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads (preview)

Amazon Q Developer streamlines large-scale transformations using generative AI agents supervised by teams through a unified web experience, accelerating .NET porting, mainframe modernization, and VMware migration.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

Busted Water Pipe Halts NASA’s Solar Observations at the Worst Possible Time

The damage caused by the flooding won't be repaired before 2025, a troubling pause given the Sun's current phase in its 11-year cycle.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

What Are Ford Upfitter Switches? (And What To Use Them For)

You may have climbed into a Ford truck and seen a bank of switches on the dashboard or the roof and wondered what they were for. Here's what we know.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

Investigate and remediate operational issues with Amazon Q Developer (in preview)

Amazon Q Developer can now help you investigate and remediate operational issues quickly from anywhere in the AWS Management Console, accelerating the troubleshooting process for operators of all experience levels.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

Bitcoin Miner Hive Digital Reveals $60 Million Paraguay Expansion Push

Hive Digital is expanding in Paraguay with a huge Bitcoin mining machine purchaseβ€”and helping the government hedge against inflation, it says.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Decrypt favicon Decrypt

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

At its Re:Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbot’s outputs are accurate or not.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: Wired - Business favicon Wired - Business

AWS wants Amazon Q to become your buddy for the entire software development life cycle

At its re:Invent conference, AWS announced on Tuesday a series of updates to Q Developer, its coding assistant platform that competes with the likes of GitHub Copilot. The focus here is on going beyond code completion and helping developers with a wider range of routine tasks involved in the end-to-end software life cycle. The service, […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Introducing GitLab Duo with Amazon Q

GitLab Duo with Amazon Q streamlines software development across tasks and teams by embedding advanced AI agent capabilities into the GitLab workflows developers already know.

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

Learn Google Sheets – Course for Beginners

Spreadsheets are important for modern data management, analysis, and organization. Whether you're tracking personal finances, managing a business, or conducting advanced data analysis, spreadsheets offer a versatile platform for countless tasks. Amon...

Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source: freeCodeCamp favicon freeCodeCamp