Quantum computing is starting to fulfil its promise as a crucial scientific research tool, IBM researchers claim, as the US tech group attempts to quell fears that the technology will fail to match high hopes for it. From a report: The company is due to unveil 10 projects on Monday Read more…
Failing a CAPTCHA isn’t just annoying — it keeps people from navigating the internet. Older people can take considerably more time to solve different kinds of CAPTCHAs, according to the UC Irvine researchers, and other research has found that the same is true for non-native English speakers. The annoyance can Read more…
A study of more than 2 million people’s internet use found no “smoking gun” for widespread harm to mental health from online activities such as browsing social media and gaming, despite widely claimed concerns that mobile apps can cause depression and anxiety. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said Read more…
Amazon on Tuesday announced a new chatbot called Q for people to use at work. From a report: The product, announced at Amazon Web Services’ Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, represents Amazon’s latest effort to challenge Microsoft and Google in productivity software. It comes one year after Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI Read more…
The founder of a software developer conference has been accused of creating fake female speakers to bolster diversity numbers — and some speakers are dropping out, with the event just nine days away. Devternity is an online conference for developers that’s invite-only for speakers. In the past, it reportedly drew Read more…
On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research tool that can turn any still image into a short video — with mixed results. It’s an open-weights preview of two AI models that use a technique called image-to-video, and it can run locally on a machine Read more…
“Every car we were driving with was heading that direction…” Shelby Easler says in a TikTok video, “so we assumed this was going somewhere…” But SFGate reports that instead of a handy “alternate route,” Google Maps was leading her and her two passengers “far off the major highway and into Read more…