Google LLC said today that it’s bringing 110 new languages to its web and smartphone translation app using the power of artificial intelligence, making it more comprehensive than ever with 243 languages in total. This is the largest expansion to date for Google Translate since 2022, when the company brought 24 new languages to the …
Intel Corp. today introduced two new chip lines designed for laptops and servers that both promise to significantly outperform the company’s previous-generation silicon. The Lunar Lake series of laptops systems-on-chip will be made at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. fabs. It features two types of central processing unit cores optimized for performance and for power …
Bing Search and sites powered by Microsoft Corp.’s Bing have been experiencing outages worldwide today that began at about 3 a.m. EDT. Searchers using Bing and other websites that rely on Bing Search, such as Copilot for the web, Copilot on Windows, OpenAI’s ChatGPT internet search, DuckDuckGo Inc’s private search will see errors. According to user …
Xreal Inc., the Chinese maker of augmented reality glasses, today announced it has raised $60 million in a confidential strategic funding round to expand its consumer line of wearable AR devices. The company said that it would use the new funding to scale up its manufacturing capabilities, research and development aimed at bringing affordable AR …
Apple Inc. became the world’s largest smartphone maker by unit shipments in 2023, according to preliminary International Data Corp. research published today. The top spot in IDC’s handset sales ranking was held by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for more than a decade. The last time the company didn’t nab first place was in 2010, when …
OpenAI’s GPT Store, a marketplace for customized versions of ChatGPT, is expected to become available next week. The Information and TechCrunch reported the platform’s launch time frame today, citing a memo distributed by OpenAI to users. The artificial intelligence company first previewed the GPT Store in early November. It planned to launch the marketplace later …
A previously unknown spyware campaign targeting iPhones, believed to have been ongoing since 2019, has been found to exploit a previously unknown feature in chips designed by Apple Inc. to bypass hardware-based security protections. Detailed today by researchers from Kaspersky Labs Inc. at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress, the campaign, dubbed “Operation Triangulation,” starts with a …
Google LLC has reportedly delayed the debut of its next-generation generative artificial intelligence model Gemini, and will now keep it under wraps until at least January. Gemini is said to be the most powerful conversational AI Google has created so far. It’s described as a multimodal AI chatbot that can process multiple kinds of data. …
Qualcomm Inc. has ended its collaboration with Iridium Communications Inc. to provide satellite connectivity for Android devices. The chipmaker first disclosed its intent to scrap the deal last week, Iridium announced on Thursday. The agreement will officially end on Dec. 3. Shares of Iridium, a McLean, Virginia-based satellite operator that trades on the Nasdaq, dropped …