Month: March 2023
Fitbit users are mad, and Google’s solution won’t help
Fitbit users haven’t been too pleased as of late, but while there’s a lot that Google could do to make things better, its latest announcement ain’t it. At its The Check Up event earlier today, Google announced it’s opening up more of Fitbit’s Health Metrics Dashboard to nonsubscribers. The company…
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Lexus’ first electric vehicle, the RZ 450e, starts at under $60,000
Toyota has been criticized for being slow to release its first dedicated electric vehicle, but one could argue that the delay has given the world’s largest automaker ample time to survey the competition as it sets its own plans into motion. Today, the company’s luxury brand Lexus announced pricing details…
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Floating solar panels could completely power thousands of cities
Thousands of cities around the world could power themselves entirely with solar panels floating atop water reservoirs, according to new research. It’s a relatively easy way to generate renewable energy locally while also conserving water. Solar arrays suspended over water, or floatovoltaics, work similarly to those spread out over land.…
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Sick of hearing about ChatGPT in Bing? Too bad: Microsoft is just getting started
On Thursday, March 16, Microsoft is planning to reveal more of its grand scheme for implementing AI chatbot ChatGPT’s features into yet more aspects of our lives – specifically, how the tech firm has big plans to “reinvent productivity with AI”. Besides being utterly meaningly corporate marketing jargon, this notion…
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The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4
“We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, customized for search,” according to a blog post from Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s head of consumer marketing. “If you’ve used the new Bing in preview at any time in the last six weeks, you’ve already had an early…
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Microsoft lays off team responsible for AI ethics
Microsoft has axed its entire ethics and society team within its AI (opens in new tab) division, as part of the 10,000 wider layoffs at the company as a whole. The tech giant is now left without a team that ensures AI product design aligns with the values of responsible…
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