The tinkerers who opened up a fancy coffee maker to AI brewing

The tinkerers who opened up a fancy coffee maker to AI brewing

Assume the role of a master coffee brewer. You focus exclusively on the pour-over method and specialty coffee only. You often work with single origin coffees, but you also experiment with blends. Your recipes are executed by a robot, not a human, so maximum precision can be achieved. Temperatures are all maintained and stable in…

Q&A: Ernst & Young exec details the good, bad and future of genAI deployments

Q&A: Ernst & Young exec details the good, bad and future of genAI deployments

Betting that generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is top of mind for every IT manager and corporate executive would be a smart move. An equally smart take would be to realize that most organizations still remain reticent to fully embrace the technology and its automation capabilities. Given the AI hallucinations, output errors, organizational data fragmentation and…

New AI model generates buildable Lego creations from text descriptions

New AI model generates buildable Lego creations from text descriptions

On Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled LegoGPT, an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts. The new system not only designs Lego models that match text descriptions (prompts) but also ensures they can be built brick by brick in the real world, either by hand or with robotic assistance….

Wearables firm’s endless free hardware upgrades were too good to be true

Wearables firm’s endless free hardware upgrades were too good to be true

Current customers can also get a “free” hardware upgrade if they subscribed to or renewed a Whoop membership within the past 30 days, a Whoop representative confirmed via Reddit. Customers complain Some customers have expressed frustration with the changes. One Reddit user, for example, wrote: Whoop published content which most certainly was to influence and…

Recap: Here’s what happened in Google’s search antitrust trial

Recap: Here’s what happened in Google’s search antitrust trial

The great Google spinoff While Google certainly doesn’t want to lose Chrome, there may be a more fundamental threat to its business in the DOJ’s remedies. The DOJ argued that Google’s illegal monopoly has given it an insurmountable technology lead, but a collection of data remedies could address that. Under the DOJ proposal, Google would…

Linux to end support for 1989’s hottest chip, the 486, with next release

Linux to end support for 1989’s hottest chip, the 486, with next release

It’s not the first time Torvalds has suggested dropping support for 32-bit processors and relieving kernel developers from implementing archaic emulation and work-around solutions. “We got rid of i386 support back in 2022. Maybe it’s time to get rid of i486 support in 2022,” Torvalds wrote in October 2022. Failing major changes to the 6.15…

Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

Schools across the US are warning parents about an Internet trend that has students purposefully trying to damage their school-issued Chromebooks so that they start smoking or catch fire. Various school districts, including some in Colorado, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Washington, have sent letters to parents warning about the trend that’s largely taken off…