Big Brother is listening. Companies use “bossware” to listen to their employees when they’re near their computers. Multiple “spyware” apps can record phone calls. And home devices such as Amazon’s Echo can record everyday conversations. A new technology, called Neural Voice Camouflage, now offers a defense. It generates custom audio Read more…
The Dutch consumer technology firm TomTom announced on Wednesday that it is “resetting” the organization as a result of improvements in its mapmaking technology. Engineering investments have resulted in an advanced automated mapmaking platform, which leads to a material change in mapmaking activities. […] The improvement in our mapmaking technology Read more…
What we have are innumerable different collections of information, each of them specific to a particular application. Technology is full of narratives, but one of the loudest and most persistent concerns artificial intelligence and something called “data.” AI is the future, we are told, and it’s all about data — Read more…
The United States is on top of the supercomputing world in the Top500 ranking of the most powerful systems. The Frontier system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) running on AMD EPYC CPUs took first place from last year’s champ, Japan’s ARM A64X Fugaku system. It’s still in the integration Read more…
The higher you climb, the harder you fall — and that spells trouble across the board for fintech startups right now. Already fintech multiples plummeted faster, and harder, than the rest of the tech sector. A chart published by a16z shows that the peak of forward revenue multiples for fintech Read more…
It was a technically superior machine to the IBM PCs of the day, but somehow, the growing business market for computers couldn’t tell the difference, so whichever one (60×86 PCs with DOS then Windows) took the early lead in the market just kept growing by the network effect (every business Read more…
As labor shortages continue, “robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022,” reports Business Insider (citing a report from the Wall Street Journal citing the Association for Advancing Automation). “People want to remove labor,” Ametek Inc. CEO David A. Zapico told Bloomberg in November, noting that the automatic Read more…