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Enrique Dans
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Software developers are showing the way forward in the use of generative AI: let’s follow their…
Software developers are showing the way forward in the use of gener...
A macro-survey carried out by the programming Q&A site Stack Overflow among more than 65,000 developers shows that code development…
Enrique Dans
Aug 5
Apple’s Find My feature is not “creepy”; defending thieves is
Apple’s Find My feature is not “creepy”; defending thieves is
Tim Sweeney, the eccentric founder and CEO of Epic Games, a long-standing critic of Apple, has found another way to attack the company in a…
Enrique Dans
Aug 4
Would you let a robot prep your tooth crown?
Would you let a robot prep your tooth crown?
Perceptive, a Boston-based robotics company, has unveiled a fully autonomous, AI-controlled robot able to carry out a complete dental…
Enrique Dans
Aug 3
Why it’s important to speak slowly and clearly when ordering your burger through AI
Why it’s important to speak slowly and clearly when ordering your b...
Yum Brands, the company that owns fast food chains KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, among others, has just announced it will begin using…
Enrique Dans
Aug 2
TikTok’s problems just keep mounting
TikTok’s problems just keep mounting
The US Department of Justice has intervened in the case against TikTok, which unless it succeeds in its appeal will be forced to sell the…
Enrique Dans
Aug 1
Apple has come up with a flocking good campaign to raise awareness about online privacy
Apple has come up with a flocking good campaign to raise awareness ...
Evoking Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, Apple has just launched a global privacy campaign using a two-minute film called “Flock” featuring…
Enrique Dans
Jul 31
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Welcome to the parallel universe of Axel Springer, where ad blocking is an infringement of…
Welcome to the parallel universe of Axel Springer, where ad blocking is an infringement of…
Back in 2015, several German newspaper publishers joined forces and sued Eye/o, the company that created Adblock Plus, claiming it…
Enrique Dans
Jul 31
Dangerous drivers beware: you are being watched
Dangerous drivers beware: you are being watched
A patent applied for by Ford in January 2023 and admitted in July 18th this 2024 points to the widespread use of sensors on cars to detect…
Enrique Dans
Jul 29
Does Donald Trump even know what a cryptocurrency is?
Does Donald Trump even know what a cryptocurrency is?
To anyone with a modicum of common sense, Donald Trump’s appearance at the opening of Bitcoin 2024, making all sorts of promises of…
Enrique Dans
Jul 28
Copyright traps for LLMs: we know how this ends
Copyright traps for LLMs: we know how this ends
Outraged at the proliferation of generative algorithms trained on all kinds of content, researchers are working on copyright traps, hidden…
Enrique Dans
Jul 27
SearchGPT: we saw this one coming…
SearchGPT: we saw this one coming…
OpenAI’s announcement of SearchGPT is a milestone in the evolution of search technology. This prototype search engine, designed to generate…
Enrique Dans
Jul 27
Open source and AI: a winning combination
Open source and AI: a winning combination
In August 1991, when Linus Torvalds announced in a forum that he was working on a new operating system, he probably wasn’t thinking that…
Enrique Dans
Jul 25
Elon Musk and the X factor
Elon Musk and the X factor
As we all know by now, Joe Biden finally decided to abandon his quest for a second presidential term, saying he felt it was the best thing…
Enrique Dans
Jul 25
What Google’s decision to backtrack on eliminating cookies says about the company
What Google’s decision to backtrack on eliminating cookies says about the company
As many of us had already feared, Google is once again rowing back from plans to eliminate third party cookies, one of the main ways it has…
Enrique Dans
Jul 24
It’s simply common sense to use AI in healthcare
It’s simply common sense to use AI in healthcare
A good article in The Guardian, “GPs use AI to boost cancer detection rates in England by 8%”, explains how family doctors in the UK have…
Enrique Dans
Jul 22
China, solar energy and the logic of oversizing
China, solar energy and the logic of oversizing
There are few better illustrations of China’s ambitious renewable energy strategy than the 50MW Gansu Dunhuang solar farm in China’s Gansu…
Enrique Dans
Jul 21
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