Dell is calling much of its workforce back into the office five days a week starting on March 3. The technology giant is framing the mandate as a business strategy, but there’s reason to believe the policy may drive employee turnover. Business Insider detailed an internal memo today from CEO and Chairman Michael Dell informing…
width=”2486″ height=”1398″ sizes=”(max-width: 2486px) 100vw, 2486px”>Fines and their strict enforcement are an effective way of reminding everyone involved to stick to the rules as much as possible. AVN Photo Lab – shutterstock.com Data protection authorities in Europe imposed fines amounting to €1.2 billion last year according to the seventh edition of commercial law firm DLA…
Continued stress between the US and China and the slow transition to Apple Intelligence may be limiting Apple’s business growth, but there’s no legitimate way to deny the strategic success of CEO Tim Cook’s decision to build Apple’s services business (a decision he likely had in mind during the Beats purchase in 2014). The money it is making with…
There’s a lot of hype surrounding Doom: The Dark Ages, especially since the release date was announced, and we were treated to more footage recently. Evidently, id Software continues to move forward with the franchise. Though, where’s the harm in holding onto the past? As I’ve proven time and time again, Doom will never cease…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman writes on LinkedIn that the company is now making OpenAI’s reasoning model o1 free to use for all users of Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot. Microsoft calls the functionality itself “Think Deeper.” The o1 model spends more time (about 30 seconds) considering the instructions it receives from several different angles and perspectives, then…
Italy’s data protection authority Garante has chosen to block the app for the much-hyped Chinese AI model DeepSeek in the country. The decision comes after the Chinese companies providing the chatbot service failed to provide the authority with sufficient information about how users’ personal data is used. Reuters writes that Garante wants to know, among other things, what…
If you’re like about 70% of computer users worldwide, you use Google’s Chrome browser as your gateway to the web, from conducting research and catching up on news to emailing and interacting with cloud apps. There are several tools built into Chrome that you might not know about, but should. They can improve your browsing…
Apple fell slightly short of investor expectations when it reported its first-quarter earnings today. While sales were up 4 percent overall, the iPhone showed signs of weakness, and sales in the Chinese market slipped by just over 11 percent. CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that the iPhone performed better in countries where Apple Intelligence was…
The Deepseek-R1 model has managed to attract a lot of attention in a short time, especially because it can be used commercially without restrictions. Now, developers at Hugging Face are trying to reconstruct the generative AI (genAI) model from scratch and develop an alternative to Deepseek-R1 called Open-R1 based on open source code. Although Deepseek…
Earlier this week, we learned about Apple’s decision to appoint Kim Vorrath, the vice president of the company’s Technology Development Group (TDG), to help build Apple Intelligence under the supervision of John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for machine learning and AI. Vorrath, who also serves at a board member at the National Center for Women in…