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Microsoft introduces autonomous AI agents
Microsoft on Monday said it was enhancing its AI offerings with new autonomous agent capabilities as the tech titan aims to accelerate business adoption of artificial intelligence.
TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite PCIe 4.0 SSD Ha...
The naming of TEAMGROUP's T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite indicates no DRAM cache onboard but could well also refer to the low price of the SSD. The drive is rated for 7,400MB/s read…
Mysterious Intel Arc 140T graphics engine signific...
A new Intel iGPU has been discovered, dubbed Arc 140T, featuring significantly faster performance than the Lunar Lake-equipped Arc 140V.
Using a multilingual dataset to enhance hateful vi...
Social media has revolutionized the way information is shared throughout communities, but it can also be a cesspit of hateful content. Current research on hateful content detection focuses on text-based analysis, while hateful video detection remains underexplored.
Qualcomm says its Snapdragon Elite benchmarks show...
Qualcomm claims its Snapdragon X Elite beats Intel's Lunar Lake chips in performance and efficiency, and that Intel was misleading in marketing.
Heard About Creative’s Outlier Free+ Or Outlier Pr...
At first glance, the big difference between the Outlier Free+ and the Outlier Pro+ is that the former has an IPX5 rating which makes it definitely sweat proof while the latter has…
Falling for it: A micro-scale look at how parachut...
Parachutes have many applications, decelerating everything from skydivers to supersonic-speed scientific payloads. Regardless of what a parachute is slowing down, two things remain constant: the parachute must withstand large amounts of force, and it is crucial to ensuring the...
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip could tip a...
Qualcomm just launched its new Oryon CPUs and the Snapdragon 8 Elite at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui. While these chips might be designed for phones and not PCs, the next-gen Oryon CPU core within those chips could be...
MIT researchers make progress on 3D-printed electr...
MIT researchers attempt to make electronics without semiconductors, and succeed in some ways.
Innovative transistors could make quick-charging e...
On the EnerConnect project, researchers at Fraunhofer IZM are testing bidirectional blocking gallium nitride (GaN) transistors to design a system that could be used with the next generation of active converters and rectifiers. The innovative hardware removes the need...
Researchers provide LLM benchmarking suite for the...
Researchers from ETH Zurich, the Bulgarian AI research institute INSAIT—created in partnership with ETH and EPFL—and the ETH spin-off LatticeFlow AI have provided the first comprehensive technical interpretation of the EU AI Act for General Purpose AI (GPAI) models....
User-friendly system makes it easier to verify an ...
Despite their impressive capabilities, large language models are far from perfect. These artificial intelligence models sometimes "hallucinate" by generating incorrect or unsupported information in response to a query.
Zotac denies recent RTX 5090 GPU boot-up rumor — v...
Zotac officially denies the report that a Zotac-made RTX 5090 was successfully booted up in an Indonesian factory, stating that the GPU was actually an RTX 4070 Ti Super model.
Windows kernel defenses aren't enough to stop a lu...
Hackers commonly bypass Microsoft Windows kernel protections to enable cheating in competitive online games, new research shows. Academics at the University of Birmingham performed a technical analysis of how game cheats and anti-cheat systems work and carried out a...
Showing AI users diversity in training data can bo...
While artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as home assistants, search engines or large language models like ChatGPT, may seem nearly omniscient, their outputs are only as good as the data on which they are trained. However, ease of use...
Help Turning Off That AI Assistant; If The App All...
Chatbots, AI Assistants and LLM enhanced apps are all the rage now, whether you like it or not. If you do enjoy the suggestions Google search now provides or Copilot's suggestions then…
How your online world could change if big tech com...
The US Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. If the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the...
Do electric cars greatly increase the average mass...
Statements have been circulating online, including leading news platforms, that battery electric cars will greatly increase the average mass of the on-road fleet. This claim is used as an argument against these cars.
Taiwan eyes new nuclear energy plans due to demand...
There are signs that Taiwan is considering a change in direction regarding its energy policy. In an interview with Bloomberg, Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai signaled that future nuclear energy technology may be adopted to address the needs of the...
Humanizing AI could lead us to dehumanize ourselve...
Irish writer John Connolly once said: "The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away."