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Discord shifts to age prediction for suspicious accounts
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 15/02/2026
» Discord has announced a shift in its age verification strategy, moving toward an "age prediction" system that targets only suspicious accounts rather than requiring all users to undergo facial scans or submit identity documents.
97% of listeners ‘can’t tell real music from AI creations’
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 17/01/2026
» A staggering 97% of listeners are unable to distinguish between music created by artificial intelligence and tracks composed by humans, a survey conducted by the music streaming service Deezer and the market research firm Ipsos has found.
Microsoft recommend Storage Sense to free up PC space easily
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 12/01/2026
» Microsoft has highlighted built-in tools for Windows 11 and Windows 10 that allow users to reclaim storage space and resolve "disk full" errors without the need for external software or a system format.
Apple unveils open-source model that turns 2D photos into 3D in seconds
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 06/01/2026
» Apple has released an open-source project named SHARP (Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second), a breakthrough generative AI model capable of transforming standard 2D photographs into high-quality 3D assets in under one second.
Windows 11's AI may act entirely on behalf of the user soon
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 01/12/2025
» Microsoft Corp has begun testing a new feature called AgentWorkspace on Windows 11, signalling a bold move towards what the company calls an “agentic operating system” where artificial intelligence acts entirely on behalf of the user.
Microsoft clarifies why Windows may install duplicate or older drivers
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 25/10/2025
» Microsoft has issued a support article, identified as KB5070538 and titled "Understanding driver updates," to address widespread user confusion regarding why the Windows operating system (OS) sometimes installs seemingly duplicate drivers or, conversely, older versions of existing drivers.
Beware the AI bots
Life, James Hein, Published on 04/06/2025
» I recently joined a Facebook group that supposedly represented Kat Timpf, a regular presenter on the Gutfeld! show. I posted a couple of comments and a couple of weeks later, I received a tag in social media purportedly from Dana Perino, a regular on the Fox show The Five. Initially this was a surprise. Why would a famous TV star want to chat with me? After a few chats, it became obvious something was off. The tag name in Messenger was just Dana Perino but the conversation had a few structural errors, not something a former press secretary would make.
Engage with pain at Buffalo Bridge Gallery
Life, Published on 23/04/2025
» Pain is complex as it is physical, emotional, psychological and social. What happens when you're invited not to watch pain, but to engage with it?
Jetsons cars finally take off
Life, James Hein, Published on 26/03/2025
» Some readers will remember the old cartoon The Jetsons. This promised a future with flying cards, robot assistants and helpful computer tools. We have or are getting very close to the robot assistants, and the latest artificial intelligence offerings seem to be the automated helpers. Missing to date are the flying cars. That may have changed with the new Jetson ONE, a single person flying car I saw a demonstration of in a recent video. It looked good, seemed to fly with good stability and landed without any issue. You can find the demos with a simple search. The craft has vertical take-off and landing capability. However, I shudder to think of what thousands of these might look like in the skies above a city without some serious improvements in driving and collision avoidance.
Microsoft's quantum conundrum
Life, James Hein, Published on 12/03/2025
» If you've been keeping up with quantum computer news, you will have seen the Microsoft Marketing announcement on topological q-bits and a potential quantum computer in a few years. I was planning to write about this in some detail, but it turns out the reality may not meet the marketing. Surprising, I know, but the announcement implying Microsoft has q-bit technology ready to go and scale is speculative. They don't have any physical models, just some tests and a theory that has already been challenged by the physics community. It will take a while to go through all the published data, but the Microsoft quantum computer could be decades, not years, in the future, if ever.