December 2024

Swedish authorities urged to discontinue AI welfare system

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Sweden’s algorithmically powered welfare system is disproportionately targeting marginalised groups in Swedish society for benefit fraud investigations, and must be immediately discontinued, Amnesty International has said. An investigation published by Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet (SvB) on 27 November 2024 found that the machine learning (ML) system being used by Försäkringskassan, Sweden’s Social Insurance Agency,…

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Apple’s touching new AirPods Pro 2 commercial will make you cry

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Apple has taught us to expect emotional Christmas commercials for its products around this time of year, and the company delivered yet another touching ad that will make you cry. Released on Thanksgiving Day, the Heartstrings ad already tops one million views on YouTube, though you’ll also catch it on other social media channels. The ad…

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Apple just took the first major step toward making next-gen M5 iPads and Macs

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Apple just unveiled a bigger M4 family with the new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models. However, the company is already moving on to the M5 chips, as it has ordered TSMC to start the production development of the upcoming Mac processors (iPad and Apple Vision Pro, too).According to The Elec (via MacRumors), the…

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Opera browser’s Writing Mode AI tool just got a major update

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Popular Opera One browser has just released a new version of Writing Mode, an Aria AI-powered feature similar to Apple’s Writing Tools that helps you write or rewrite any text with ease. This update brings a more intuitive, smarter, and less intrusive AI assistant, as Aria keeps getting extra functionality.This feature is integrated into the…

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Apple Watch Series 10 is so good, I won’t even consider upgrading without these 3 new features

5 minutes of reading / Apple, Apple Watch, iPhone, Tech / By

I bought a 42mm Jet Black Apple Watch Series 10 a few days after it came out, and the Apple wearable simply blew my mind in various ways. After over two months of use, I can safely say the Apple Watch Series 10 is one of the best Apple products I’ve ever bought.The more I…

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8 reasons I’m not worried about iPhone 17 Air battery life

7 minutes of reading / Apple, iPad, iPhone, MacBook, Qualcomm, Samsung, Snap, Tech / By

I’ve been thinking about the iPhone 17 Air ever since I first saw rumors claiming that Apple would replace the Plus with an ultra-thin iPhone 17 model. I was already prepared to go non-Pro when it comes to new iPhones, and my two-month stint with the iPhone 16 Plus proved that I can use a…

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Podcast: Areal density, AI design and the 50TB hard drive

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In this podcast, Antony Adshead is joined by Jason Feist, senior vice-president for marketing in products and markets at Seagate, to look at how spinning disk can get to 40TB and 50TB. We talk about hard disk drive technologies such as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that can boost areal density and pack more data onto…

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Google just removed speed traps from Google Maps, but don’t panic

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One of the best things Google did to Google Maps was to adopt the incident reports signature feature of Waze, which is also a Google-owned navigation app. It’s those incident reports that made Waze so popular with drivers to begin with, and Google has slowly brought them to Google Maps.Google is still tweaking the experience…

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RWE bets on HPE Private Cloud AI for green energy push

3 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, HP, hybrid cloud, Tech / By

Renewable energy supplier RWE is tapping into HPE’s private cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies so it can use weather data more efficiently to predict changes in energy supply and demand. German multi-national RWE is a major developer of renewable energy in the UK, operating a mix of wind, hydro and biomass generation sites around…

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Nvidia CEO talks up AI post-training, test learning and gigawatts

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Nvidia has continued to see record growth in its datacentre business, driven by the acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The company reported quarterly revenue of $35.1bn, up 17% from Q2 and up 94% from a year ago. Its datacentre business, which provides graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI servers, contributed $30.8bn during the quarter,…

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