Category: Articles

  • Microsoft services like Outlook and Teams accessible again after outage caused by a ‘network issue’

    Microsoft services like Outlook and Teams accessible again after outage caused by a ‘network issue’ Update 25/01/2023 7.15 PM IST: Microsoft’s services are back online after a downtime that lasted for more than four hours. The headline is changed to reflect that. https://fortizotechhub.tech.blog/2023/01/25/microsoft-services-like-outlook-and-teams-accessible-again-after-outage-caused-by-a-network-issue/ #fortizotechnologies #techcrunch #technews #news

  • Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors

    Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap, a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. https://fortizotechhub.tech.blog/2023/01/24/strava-acquires-fatmap-a-3d-mapping-platform-for-the-great-outdoors/(opens in a new tab)

  • Microsoft invests billions more dollars in OpenAI, extends partnership

    Microsoft today said that it’s extending its partnership with OpenAI, the startup behind art- and text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and GPT-3, with a “multi-year, multi-billion-dollar” investment. OpenAI says that the infusion of new capital — the exact amount of which wasn’t disclosed — will be used to continue its independent research and develop AI that’s “safe, useful and…

  • Google parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce impacting 12,000 people, saying it had ‘hired for a different economic reality’

    Image Credits: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Alphabet, parent holding company of Google, has announced that it’s cutting around 6% of its global workforce. In an open letter published by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, the narrative followed a similar trajectory to that of other companies that have downsized in recent months, noting that the company had “hired…

  • German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase

    Image Credits: Slay team The teenage market for apps is a tough nut to crack and stay relevant in. Just ask Snapchat. Equally, teens are going through a stage in life where almost every social interaction seems to carry portent of some kind of other. This would explain in part why apps like SendIt, NGL, and…

  • Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, featuring new Neural Engine and more

    Apple this morning announced new Macbooks powered by the latest generation of its in-house, custom-designed PC chipsets. The chipsets — the M2 Pro and M2 Max — feature a more powerful CPU and GPU, up to 96GB of unified memory and what Apple claims is “industry-leading” power efficiency. M2 Pro Image Credits: Apple Built using a second-generation 5-nanometer process…

  • Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached

    Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice. In a notice to customers, Gen Digital, the parent company of Norton LifeLock, said that the likely culprit was a credential stuffing attack — where previously…

  • The TikTok That Will Be the Great Unsolved Mystery of This Era

    Here’s why your social media feeds might be haunted by posts about 26-year-old nursing assistants. THE MONITOR IS a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. This became clear Thursday when a friend sent a tweet to one of my group chats containing a screenshot of the TikTok…

  • What Is Super Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Definition, Threats, and Trends

    Artificial superintelligence is an AI system that is self-aware and intelligent enough to surpass the cognitive abilities of humans. Artificial superintelligence (ASI) is defined as a form of AI capable of surpassing human intelligence by manifesting cognitive skills and developing thinking skills of its own. This article explains the fundamentals of ASI, the potential threat…

  • Researchers Say It’ll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI

    The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for decades, and in 2021, scientists delivered their verdict on whether we’d be able to control a high-level computer super-intelligence. The answer? Almost definitely not. The catch is that controlling a super-intelligence far beyond human comprehension would require a simulation of that super-intelligence which we can…

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