Google CEO Sundar Pichai is doing damage control. After a disastrous debut, Google’s Bard AI is available to testers. However, the company’s chatbot has been roundly criticized for its inability to keep up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the ChatGPT-infused Microsoft Bing. Pichai appeared on the most recent New York Times …
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As automakers and climate-focused legislators continue to push electric vehicle adoption, they’ll need all the help they can get. If the idea of using public EV charging cables gives you pause, Hyundai and Kia have developed the Automatic Charging Robot. Shown off online last week, Hyundai Motor Group’s ACR aims …
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Gaming laptops have always been a bit spendy, and that’s especially true of laptops with Nvidia’s new RTX 40-series GPUs. The performance sounded enticing when Nvidia announced its mobile Ada Lovelace lineup at CES this year. However, when retail products arrived, all new laptops cost over $2,000 and beyond, with …
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Developing new drugs takes a long time. Not only can it take years for scientists to devise a potential treatment in the lab, but it must undergo rigorous testing before it can be rolled out to the public, extending the drug’s total timeline to over a decade. This process is …
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(Credit: Xiaomi)There’s a consensus amongst tech folks that augmented and virtual reality would catch on if the headsets were more comfortable. So far, all we’ve had, aside from a few flash-in-the-pan concepts, are big, bulky headsets. Nobody wants to wear those all day, nor could they, as battery life becomes …
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The next wave of PCIe Gen 5 SSDs is still not here yet, but ASRock is ready for them. The company has pulled the wraps off a swanky PCIe expansion card that holds four of them and theoretically supports the maximum bandwidth of 16GB/s for each drive. That could allow …
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Intel recently announced its lineup of Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs for workstations. They’re still a month or two away, but in the lead-up to the on-sale date, Intel invited German overclocker de8auer to its labs for a quick overclocking test. That some Sapphire Rapids workstation CPUs are overclockable is both …
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Was there a Twitter exodus or just a Twitter pause? Did it even matter? New data takes a look at how a range of “Twitter alternatives” have fared in the months following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the popular microblogging network, now that the burst of new installs driven by his …
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[Ed: Nvidia was expected to release a driver to support this feature on the 7th, but it did not. A new driver did come out on the 8th, but it does not include support for RTX Video Super Resolution.] Nvidia has been at the forefront of using AI to upscale images for several years …
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Phone batteries may have peaked. We’ve been hovering around the 5,000mAh mark in Android phones for years, and there’s no magical technology on the horizon to increase that. High charging speeds are almost as good, and that’s increasing by leaps and bounds with devices like the new OnePlus 11. The …
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