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Consumer Reports EV Range Testing Highlights
To ensure the vehicle is properly broken in and still has full battery capacity, we only test cars we own with between 2,000 and 15,000 miles on the odometer. (Some vehicles from automakers, including Chevrolet, Nissan, Polestar, Rivian, and Tesla are not represented because we do not currently own them, they did not meet all of our testing criteria, or…
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Talking Cars 470: 2025 New York Auto Show Highlights
Main theme: The podcast panel filmed this episode on the floor at the 2025 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS). This year marks the 125th anniversary of the show, which originated at a time when owning a car was not a given for most families. Today’s show featured vehicles ranging from 1900s classics to the latest technology-laden vehicle debuts. The panel…
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At 50, Microsoft highlights AI and Copilot as the company’s future – Computerworld
At a special 50th anniversary event on Friday, Microsoft executives reflected on the company’s storied past and on how it’s now reinventing itself for an AI-focused future. With previous CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in attendance, current CEO Satya Nadella boasted that the company is “leading this new wave of AI innovation, and more importantly, democratizing just like we…
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‘This shift highlights not just a continuation but a broad acceptance of remote work as the norm’: Software engineers are sticking with remote work and refusing to budge on RTO mandates – and 21% would quit if forced back to the office
Eight-in-ten software engineers will be working at least partly from home by the end of this year, new research suggests, as workers double down on hybrid setups and push back against RTO mandates. Despite the efforts of big tech firms like Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle to corral people back into the office, there’s strong resistance, according to a survey from…
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AWS exec highlights key skills for success in the evolving AI-driven job market – Computerworld
“That’s what we’re seeing — that recognition that these new technologies that are coming out…and they’re kind of the future, and people have to figure out what this technology can do for them and their job, no matter what their job is. “We participated in a study…around wages associated with AI skills, and what we found was just an incredible…
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Microsoft’s new AI hub highlights apps that support NPUs – Computerworld
The NPU is an ancillary chip to a computer’s CPU and GPU, and is more power efficient when running generative AI (genAI)-based tasks such as image recognition, content creation, and voice transcription. “The NPU’s ability to offload these tasks from the CPU and GPU allows for faster, more efficient operation of the entire system,” Microsoft said. Microsoft introduced Copilot+ PCs…
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U.K.’s International AI Safety Report Highlights Rapid AI Progress
A new report published by the U.K. government says that OpenAI’s o3 model has made a breakthrough on an abstract reasoning test that many experts thought “out of reach.” This is an indicator of the pace that AI research is advancing at, and that policymakers may soon need to decide whether to intervene before there is time to gather a…
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Google faces privacy lawsuit as judge highlights data governance concerns – Computerworld
“Enterprise data policies have typically assumed that vendors are not saving personal information unless there is some sort of opt-in policy,” said Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights. “In particular, the argument that data capture ‘doesn’t hurt anyone’ is a red herring compared to the actual requirement for governance.” However, while Google’s defense focuses on its own…
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CES 2025 highlights and all the best stuff we’ve seen so far
Day two of the biggest tech event of the year is well underway and CES 2025 continues to deliver a long list of new gadgets, tech, concepts, and AI-powered devices tempting you to upgrade. It’s a lot to keep up with, so we’ll help you catch up. Below are some of the standout gadgets of the show so far. Of…
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Apple in the enterprise: highlights and expectations as 2024 winds down
Apple has had a busy year in enterprise tech. Apple Intelligence, spatial computing, the war to protect the user experience against excessive regulation, security, privacy and continued improvements to Apple Silicon and valuable OS improvements for enterprise deployment have occupied much of its time. With this in mind, it’s a good time to speak with Apple device management and security…
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