You can see it every time Apple presents quarterly results. People, though, generally gravitate to apps because they’re easy, convenient, or simply because they adore a brand so much they want to be that much closer to it. Yet not everyone wants their phone to be populated by pages and pages of apps. Some like to live a slightly more restrained life, untempted by any glow on their screen. Which leads me to this philosophical question: Are these people stupid?...

The new capabilities come by way of improved interoperability of Azure Communication Services (ACS) with Teams, and general availability of ACS support for Teams users. Interoperability of ACS and Teams lets developers build custom applications that tap Teams for voice, video, chat and screen sharing. Azure-hosted ACS is the technology that underpins Teams, and Microsoft released the public preview of ACS in 2020 as a managed communications platform, arguing that customers and partners could benefit by adding these services to their own apps....

In this installment, my AI buddy and I are looking at the question of whether it’s possible to fight back against AI-generated plagiarism, and how that might work. Also: What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here’s what you need to know Before I go on, though, we need to talk about the concept of plagiarism and how it relates to this problem. Webster’s defines “plagiarize” as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own : use (another’s production) without crediting the source....

CarPlay, described by Apple as “the ultimate copilot,” lets users connect their iPhone with their car and enjoy Apple’s UI on the car’s screen. Drivers can speak to Siri and make commands; use Maps and Music; and enjoy other apps from their iPhone, such as WhatsApp, Podcasts, News+, SiriusXM Radio, Audible, Pandora, Spotify, and more, right on their car’s built-in display. During WWDC 2022, Apple announced key changes that are coming to CarPlay, taking it several steps forward by integrating multiple built-in displays at once....

As we covered this summer, speech recognition company Speechmatics raised over $60M toward its ambition of global language comprehension. Text-to-speech company Verbit has raised over a quarter million to date. Into that fray steps AI21 Labs, which just raised $64M on a $664M valuation to continue expanding its suite of natural language processing (NLP) offerings. All of this leads to a dawning reality where computers can understand natural speech and writing....

Also: CES 2023 tech you can actually buy now The wrist-worn gadget doesn’t require the child have a smartphone in order for it to work. It has cellular connectivity built in. Parents can use the companion app on their phone to control who the child can talk to, with a total of 20 trusted contacts now available on the new watch. You can set safe zones that will trigger an alert when your child leaves that area – a school or babysitter, for example....

First, here’s a breakdown of the people who were surveyed. Among them, 57% were men, 39% were women, and 4% were nonbinary or gender non-conforming. Further, 7% were baby boomers, 22% were Gen X, 62% were millennials, and 9% were Gen Z. The experts questioned had anywhere from six months to more than five years of experience working with AI. Also: How to write better ChatGPT prompts Asked how often they use ChatGPT, a full 46% said they’ve used it only once or twice....

“When we reported in early November, there was a great deal of uncertainty around the back-to-the-school season and the continuing impact of COVID-19,” CEO Dan Rosensweig said in remarks prepared the earnings conference call. “Fortunately, while enrollments were lower, we saw that schoolwork did eventually pick-up. So the need for Chegg increased throughout the quarter, helping us exit the year on a higher note.” Chegg’s non-GAAP diluted net income per share came to 38 cents....

Number One Free Coding Software for Children Anyone with school-aged children will agree: Scratch is a fantastic platform for children to learn how to code. The program was launched in 2006 by Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab in the US. Scratch is available for free in more than 50 different languages, thanks to the financial support of a string of organizations, such as the National Science Foundation, Lego Education, Google, and Beijing-based education and technology company Tal....

Miso is a growing tech company to watch, an early leader in the push to automate fast food, at least when it comes to the actual cooking part. Miso’s burger and chicken wing preparing robots (Flippy is the best known) tend a griddle just like a human chef, making them easy to integrate into existing kitchens, and have scored big votes of confidence from national chains like White Castle and Buffalo Wild Wings....

The object? No less than a comprehensive clean-up and rework of the Linux kernel’s header hierarchy and header dependencies. Linux contains many header, .h, files. To be exact there are about 10,000 main .h headers in the Linux kernel with the include/ and arch/*/include/ hierarchies. As Molnar explained, “Over the last 30+ years they have grown into a complicated & painful set of cross-dependencies we are affectionately calling ‘Dependency Hell’....

Blackbaud – which provides cloud software services to nonprofits, higher education institutions, K–12 schools, healthcare organizations, faith communities, arts and cultural organizations, foundations and companies – will give Everfi shareholders about $450 million in cash and $300 million worth of company common stock. The Washington D.C.-based Everfi specializes in “impact-as-a-service,” providing cloud-based software and other tools to private, public and social sector organizations. Everfi also works with corporations on environmental, social and governance (ESG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals....

The service offers Comcast Business Internet customers up to 10 lines with no line access fees. Customers also have the ability to mix and match the plan’s two data options across multiple lines. The unlimited data option starts at $24 per line, per month with 10 lines and is best suited for employees working in the field away from reliable WiFi. Customers can also pay by the gig, with incremental pricing based on usage....

The president initiated his efforts late last year with the December approval of a spending bill that made it illegal to download TikTok on a government-issued device. Also: How to go live on TikTok (and how it can earn you real money) Federal lawmakers believe TikTok has the potential to be a major national security concern because of the user data it collects which could be accessed by the Chinese government....

The launch of its Leadership Academy is aimed at corporations looking to develop employees amid hybrid work and enterprise transitions. Coursera has built out a series of Academies within Coursera for Business using content from top universities and corporations. Coursera’s Academies effort covers data science, cloud and IT, software engineering, marketing and finance. These academies are built using Coursera’s SkillSets tools, which offer 42 job-based learning content covering everything from change management to emotional intelligence....

The South Korean giant said the remote control was beneficial in cases where it was not possible or safe to access rooms. One use case that certainly falls into that situation is COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria, which has been using the platform to control over a thousand purifiers in hotel quarantine. “Samsung’s b.IoT Cloud offers a single interface to safely and easily monitor and manage a fleet of units via a secure network....

She told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) that there has been a “bit of a labelling problem” in the Bill when it is called “step in” powers or powers to intervene. “I don’t think what is intended, if I may say so, is not what we call in traditional corporations law step in rights, which is traditionally associated with companies in liquidation where you have liquidators come in and step into the shoes of the companies and literally operate the company as if it were their own,” she said....

In an open letter to the European Union, Erik Thedéen, director of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, and Björn Risinger, director of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, warned that the mining of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum had sparked an increase in energy consumption in the country amounting to “several hundred percent”. This cryptocurrency mining is increasingly drawing on Sweden’s renewable energy sources, which Thedéen and Risinge say is “urgently required for the development of fossil-free steel, large-scale battery manufacturing and the electrification of our transport sector,” as well as other essential services....

The current estimate of global cryptocurrency users is about 4%, or 300 million people. “This is an innovation and a paradigm shift at least as big as that of the internet,” says Torbjørn Bull Jenssen, CEO of Nordic-based Arcane Crypto, a technology and investment firm focused on bitcoin and digital assets based in Norway. Jenssen made his bold prediction last Thursday at Oppenheimer’s Fourth Blockchain and Digital Assets Summit. Jenssen was joined by two other crypto infrastructure market leaders: Richard Byworth, CEO of Singapore-based EQONEX Group, a full-service crypto financial firm and cryptocurrency exchange, and Luke Dorney, head of sales and partnerships for Zodia Custody, a digital custody offering developed by Standard Chartered and Northern Trust banks and based in the U....

With Dolby Digital Plus, you can relish in immersive audio with just the television or add compatible devices for a true surround sound experience. You can build a home theater that is compatible with Echo speakers by simply pairing them with the Alexa app, or you can connect a soundbar to the TV’s eARC port or via Bluetooth.