Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 23 July 2024 Serving up a GenAI experience at Wimbledon Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at Wimbledon to find out how technology is improving the tennis experience for fans. We talk to Meta’s AI research…
The UK tech sector continues to struggle with skills shortages, especially in emerging and high-priority areas such as cyber security and artificial intelligence (AI). One of the contributory factors is a lack of interest in computer science education in schools. Computer Weekly recently reported that low uptake of computing-related subjects at GCSE level is threatening…
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UK innovation agency Digital Catapult has set it sights on helping the creative industry grow by revamping its production processes using artificial intelligence (AI) through the launch of its latest startup initiative. The organisation is offering nine British startups the opportunity to join its ranks and, with the support of the BBC and Amazon Web…
In March, Apple announced a new M3 MacBook Air lineup. At that time, Cupertino updated its thinnest Macs with a new processor that was up to 60 percent faster than the model with the M1 chip and up to 13x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air.The 16-core Neural engine enabled several AI features, including…
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OpenAI stunned the world with a ChatGPT demo in mid-May, just a day before Google’s AI-centric I/O 2024 event. OpenAI unveiled the GPT-4o model, a multimodal chatbot that can process audio, video, text, and image prompts. More interesting was the new Voice Mode that OpenAI developed for GPT-4o.ChatGPT now supports more natural conversations. GPT-4o allows…
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Tenstorrent has unveiled its next-generation Wormhole processor for AI workloads that promises to offer decent performance at a low price. The company currently offers two add-on PCIe cards carrying one or two Wormhole processors as well as TT-LoudBox, and TT-QuietBox workstations aimed at software developers. The whole of today’s release is aimed at developers rather…
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Intel has come forward with a statement on the crashing issues with its high-end 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs, finally clarifying the cause – or at least the major factor, apparently – and telling affected processor owners that a microcode fix is coming.Team Blue informs us that ‘elevated operating voltage’ is the cause of instability problems…
That’s even though seemingly straightforward proxy metrics such as energy consumption exist – and it’s not for want of trying. Precision down to the kilowatt-hour (kWh) or megajoule (MJ) is possible, converting thereafter to CO2 in metric tonnes (mt), but things rarely play out that way in reality, he says. And, even when they do,…
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A new era of AI is just around the corner. After the notable failure of Humane’s AI Pin and Rabbit R1, a new company aims for artificial intelligence not only to solve your everyday problems but also to have a more friendly approach.On X, Avi Schiffmann announced Friend, an AI companion that lives in a…
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Nvidia could have an RTX Titan graphics card inbound with its next-gen Blackwell line-up, if a new rumor is right.This comes from RedGamingTech (RGT) on YouTube, who claims an RTX Titan AI is in the works, and that contention is backed up by another well-known leaker, Kopite7kimi (on X, as you can see below).RGT also…
