Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players of its mobile games, such as Pokémon Go, and from users of its Scaniverse app, reports 404 Media. All AI models require training data. So far, companies have collected data from websites, YouTube videos, books,… Read More »
reader comments 151 with In late 2020, Huawei was fighting for its survival as a mobile phone maker. A few months earlier, the Trump administration had hit the Chinese company with crippling sanctions, cutting it off from global semiconductor supply chains. The sanctions prevented anyone without a permit from making the chips Huawei designed, and… Read More »
Enlarge / Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right). Getty Images reader comments 75 with Ex-Apple design star Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been discussing the design of an unspecified new AI device, reports The Information, citing two people familiar with the talks. It’s unclear what exactly the… Read More »
Enlarge / Gabriel Weinberg, creator of DuckDuckGo. Washington Post | Getty Images reader comments 13 with 10 posters participating Share this story At the end of April, Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency tools shook the advertising industry to its core. iPhone and iPad owners could now stop apps from tracking their behavior and using their… Read More »
Enlarge / Be sure you know what you’re getting into before buying and using unfamiliarly branded smartphones—especially international models not originally intended for your country. reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating Share this story The Lithuanian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently published a security assessment of three recent-model Chinese-made smartphones—Huawei’s P40 5G, Xiaomi’s… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story Samsung is using artificial intelligence to automate the insanely complex and subtle process of designing cutting-edge computer chips. The South Korean giant is one of the first chipmakers to use AI to create its chips. Samsung is using AI features in new software… Read More »
Enlarge / Pretty Good Phone Privacy wants to minimize how much your wireless provider knows about your location. Noam Galai | Getty Images reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were… Read More »
Enlarge / Uberwachung, Symbolbild, Datensicherheit, Datenhoheit Westend61 | Getty Images reader comments 61 with 41 posters participating Share this story Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national security is at stake. But new… Read More »