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Apple dials a ride to lower-cost Macs with A-series chips – Computerworld
What these Macs did well is likely what Apple envisions for the speculated upon new model. Think web browsing, casual Mac use, access to web services, writing, reading, Apple Music and iCloud. It also likely means Apple Intelligence, access to cloud-based AI and almost certainly movies, light image editing, and so forth. It won’t be the Mac you use for anything…
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Open AI to review compensation after Meta poaches several researchers – Computerworld
Following reports that Meta had hired away prominent researchers from OpenAI — in some cases offering $100 million — the company is now saying it will review compensation. According to Wired, OpenAI’s management reportedly told employees they will not stand by and watch this happen. In a Slack message to staff, OpenAI’s chief scientist, Mark Chen, reportedly wrote: “I feel…
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The essential office apps for Android – Computerworld
The Docs, Sheets, and Slides Android apps are easy to navigate and have all the basic features you’d expect for their respective categories. In Docs, for instance, you can style text, insert tables, adjust alignment, and insert a variety of different types of bulleted lists. In Sheets, you can style and merge cells, create charts, and find and use all…
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This is (probably) the unreleased Google Pixel Tablet Pen – Computerworld
The stylus sticks to the back of the Pixel Tablet as well as its case in a deliberate-seeming position. JR Raphael, Foundry Android’s still under-development desktop mode works nicely with the Pen to create a more computer-like experience, meanwhile — especially if you also hook up a keyboard accessory of some sort. The software isn’t quite there yet, though, and…
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How to get started – Computerworld
To access this tool elsewhere in Google Docs: On the top menu bar, click Insert > Cover image. More: This button works the same as described above under a free or Business Starter plan, opening the “Building blocks” side panel. The Gemini sidebar There’s another way to interact with Gemini in Docs: Click the nova star icon at the upper-right…
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A clever new way to create instant reminders on Android – Computerworld
I don’t know how my brain would even function at this point if it weren’t for reminders. No joke: This rusty ol’ noggin of mine is overloaded with info these days (and, as I’ve noted before, it ran out of internal storage space approximately 12 years ago — and I’ve yet to find an affordable hippocampus RAM upgrade). So more…
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AI regulation freeze could fracture US’s digital future – Computerworld
ARI president Brad Carson said, “lawmakers from every state in the country are sending a clear message that the proposed ban on state AI laws would freeze a whole range of common-sense laws that voters depend on.” There is, he said, “room for a debate on pre-emption of a targeted set of state AI laws with the passage of a…
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Apple changes EU App Store rules, but will fight Europe’s demands – Computerworld
Malicious compliance But there is still a problem; Apple says that even though it’s been meeting intensively with European Commission regulators for more than a year, the experience has been a frustrating one. Regulators have continuously moved the goalposts on what compliance looks like. The company complains that they have even prevented Apple from implementing new solutions to bring its…
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Microsoft/OpenAI AGI argument unlikely to impact enterprise IT – Computerworld
Vinod Goje, the VP engineering manager at Bank of America, said Microsoft is well-positioned for a post-OpenAI model future. It has the cloud infrastructure, the enterprise relationships, and the financial firepower to pivot faster than most realize, he pointed out, stressing that he was speaking personally and not representing his employer. While losing exclusive access to OpenAI’s latest models would…
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Why you can’t make a Trump phone in the US (yet) – Computerworld
The alternative is to make smartphones that use components harvested from recycled devices, though doing so immediately means the devices might be dated, not as powerful, and potentially exposed to component-based security risks. Magical people Scientists, engineers, researchers, electronics experts, metallurgists, all of these skills are essential to the smartphone value chain. America just doesn’t have enough trained people to…
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