Month: February 2020
The Pope is getting on the AI bandwagon
The Vatican has teamed up with Microsoft and IBM to promote the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) while also calling for the regulation of facial recognition and other intrusive technologies. The tech giants signed the Vatican’s “Rome Call for AI Ethics” pledge which asserts that technology should respect privacy,…
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VW settlement and Porsche raid show Dieselgate fallout hasn’t stopped
Four and a half years after the Volkswagen Dieselgate broke, the company is still facing scrutiny on two continents. In its home country Germany on Friday, the Volkswagen Group agreed to pay a settlement of nearly $1 billion to hundreds of thousands of owners who argued their cars lost value…
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The Vaio SX12 offers too little for too much
There are a lot of really light laptops you can buy. You’ve got the 2.6-pound Asus ZenBook 13, the 2.4-pound ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the two-pound LG Gram 14, the 1.96-pound Acer Swift 7, and countless others competing for dominion of the ultra-light laptop world. But you’re always sacrificing something for…
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Microsoft drops Cortana consumer skills in new Windows 10 update
Cortana on Windows 10 is getting some changes, Microsoft announced today, as the company shifts focus for what it wants its personal assistant to be. The new Cortana will emphasize productivity features, like helping to manage your schedule, adding to-do items, or sending emails. As part of that shift, Microsoft…
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Daily Crunch: Facebook cancels F8 over coronavirus concerns
Coronavirus fears prompt even more event cancellations, controversial facial recognition software is being used widely and DocuSign acquires Seal Software. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 28, 2020. 1. Facebook cancels F8 conference, citing coronavirus concerns Facebook has confirmed that it has canceled its annual F8 developers conference over growing…
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Amazon is the latest to ditch GDC this year
GDC’s top sponsors continue to pull out of attending the San Francisco gaming conference. Today, Amazon announced it would no longer be sending employees to the event. In an update, the team shared that they would instead be hosting a “global online event” to share news that they had been…
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