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How GenAI can add to creativity
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 21/02/2024
» Since the end of 2022, ChatGPT and other new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have begun to disrupt long-established business processes, functions and professional roles, with the prospect of significantly boosting productivity, effectiveness and speed. But how can these tools augment human creativity? And in particular, how can we employ GenAI in workable, meaningful ways in the creative process?
EU demands Apple play fair
Life, James Hein, Published on 22/06/2022
» It looks like the Apple-specific charging cable may be a thing of the past with the European Union demanding that all smartphone makers use a universal USB-C port for wired charging by 2024. The same rule will be applied to many other electronic devices like tablets, cameras, headphones, handheld video game consoles and e-readers. In the future, laptops will need to follow the same rule.
The eternal debate between privacy and security
Life, James Hein, Published on 01/03/2017
» What is the line dividing privacy from national security? If you are a privacy advocate, the line is closer to "everything is private". If you are a nation state wanting to protect its interests, that line falls somewhere nearer to your preschool diary. Homeland in the US is working on a policy requiring selected non-citizens entering the US to provide the passwords to their social media accounts to gain entry. This has triggered feedback from human rights groups, civil liberties groups and a bunch of professors. Given that every nation has a right to protect its borders and a customs official can search everything else you bring in, why not information in the digital realm?
Apple, Samsung take battle to US Supreme Court
AFP, Published on 11/10/2016
» WASHINGTON - The epic legal battle pitting Apple against its bitter rival Samsung over the design of the iPhone reaches a new level Tuesday when it heads to the US Supreme Court.
Animating the dhamma
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 15/06/2016
» No more learning about Buddhism through thick, ancient religious textbooks, thanks to Mind City -- an animated feature on Buddhism written by the late supreme patriarch Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara.
Turkey YouTube ban violated freedom of expression: Europe court
AFP, Published on 02/12/2015
» STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey had violated conventions on freedom of expression when it banned YouTube for more than two years.
Windows into the future
Life, James Hein, Published on 27/05/2015
» According to the latest from Microsoft, if you are running on a genuine copy of Windows 7 or 8.x then you will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. You will also be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for a price if you are running, shall we say, those versions of Windows that originate from dubious OEM sources. These upgrades will, however, be very attractively priced. I suspect they are referring to OEMs in places like China and India that may have been a little lax with their licensing agreements. If you have downloaded your copy from a Bit Torrent site and activated it with a keygen, then I doubt the upgrade offers will be as generous.
Privacy is dead, Harvard professors tell Davos forum
AFP, Published on 22/01/2015
» DAVOS (SWITZERLAND) - Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you're pregnant even before your family does.
Google teams with Oxford to teach machines to think
AFP, Published on 24/10/2014
» SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Thursday announced a partnership with artificial intelligence teams at Oxford University to teach machines to think like people.
Academics slam NBTC spectrum plan
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 30/07/2013
» The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is at high risk of a legal backlash if it pushes ahead with auctioning 1800-megahertz spectrum for fourth-generation mobile broadband service, legal experts warn.