The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to have a new chief after the White House appointed a little-known official, Amy Gleason, as its “acting administrator.” Such administration appointments don’t normally attract a lot of attention, but these are not normal times and, as commentators keep reminding everyone, DOGE is not a normal department….
Are you ready for Vision Pro week? Well, you should be as hot on the heels of some highly significant enterprise-focused visionOS improvements, Apple has entered a new initiative that puts its device at the heart of future manufacturing. In this case, it’s a partnership with global brand Dassault Systèmes. At the 3D Experience Forum in Houston,…
Microsoft and Apple were once the yin and yang of the tech world. Microsoft was dull and plodding, milking buggy, barely-good-enough-for-prime-time Windows for tremendous profits, thanks to a worldwide operating system monopoly. The company was incapable of creating new, innovative products, and relied on sharp-elbowed (and potentially illegal) business practices to stay atop the tech…
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has made its new AI model, the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS), available to everyone free of charge. Medium-range weather forecasts are those that predict weather conditions for three to 15 days into the future. AIFS can provide detailed forecasts for wind, temperature and precipitation and, according…
Is your gadget fat and foldy? You might have a better choice next year as Apple treads its long-traveled path of not doing things first, but doing them better. That’s right, a folding iPhone is now scheduled for 2026. Folding devices are becoming increasingly popular. Even the Appleholic has spent time fondling a friend’s Samsung Fold,…
Polish company Clone Robotics has unveiled Protoclone, a human-like robot equipped with synthetic muscles and a polymer skeleton consisting of 206 bones. The YouTube clip below shows Protoclone using its synthetic muscles to move. Protoclone has a 500-watt electric pump as its heart and four cameras for eyes. In addition, the robot has 320 pressure-sensitive…
Apple plans to inject billions of dollars into the US economy, spending $500 billion in the US over the next four years and promising expansion, new manufacturing facilities, and big investments in advanced manufacturing and R&D. The announcement follows last week’s meeting between Apple CEO Tim Cook, and US President Donald J. Trump. “We are bullish on…
In a significant escalation of transatlantic tensions over tech regulation, US House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has demanded clarification from the EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera regarding the enforcement of the EU’s digital marketplace rules, citing concerns about potential discrimination against American companies. The move comes in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent memorandum…
Microsoft has launched Magma, a new generative AI (genAI) model that can be used to control everything from software to robots. The company says Magma is the first such model that can act on its own based on multimodal data such as texts, images, and video. It can, for example, use an interface or handle…
Perplexity is releasing its model R1 1776, a version of Deepseek R1 with open model weights that has been post-trained to remove China’s censorship and provide more unbiased, accurate answers, according to Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas. He wrote about the move on LinkedIn. “The post-training to remove censorship has been carried out without…