Enlarge / Fiber conduits being installed for Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. (credit: Los Altos Hills Community Fiber) Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as “a wealthy Silicon Valley town,” Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Sean Justice/Getty) Ten years ago, 12-year-old Rory Staunton dove for a ball in gym class and scraped his arm. He woke up the next day with a 104° F fever, so his parents Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For almost two years, Microsoft officials botched a key Windows defense, an unexplained lapse that left customers open to a malware infection technique that has been especially effective in recent months. Read more…
Enlarge / A colorful 3×3 matrix. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Netflix is launching a $6.99-per-month version that includes four or five minutes of ads per hour and video quality that tops out at 720p. The new “Basic with Ads” Read more…
Enlarge / Microsoft 365 will encompass Teams, OneDrive, and the suite of productivity apps formerly known as Office. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft Office was first released in 1990, and aside from Windows, it’s probably the Microsoft Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Intel is planning its first major layoffs in almost six years, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that layoffs will “likely” affect thousands of its 113,700 employees, Read more…
Enlarge / A preview of the Microsoft Designer app’s AI text-to-image functionality. (credit: Microsoft) During a Surface press event today, Microsoft announced integrations of AI-powered image-generation technology into its Bing search engine, Edge browser, and Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images /) With AT&T’s and Verizon’s 5G battle against the aviation industry mostly behind them, the carriers have significantly boosted wireless speeds with their newly deployed spectrum. From March Read more…
Enlarge / Which Steve Jobs is the real one? (credit: Ars Technica) A voice synthesis company based in Dubai published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices digitally cloned Read more…