Author: InfoForTech

For me, it’s never too early to start planning my holiday photos (and I’m sure I’m not alone!). There’s plenty of photo work to do as the fall and holiday season rolls around, from printing my favorite photos from the year before it ends to designing holiday photo cards to debating whether a new photo book or a mug with my son’s face on it should be my gift for a few family members.Whether you’re planning photo gifts or just want to print your best photos from the year, you can keep it from getting expensive with these Walgreens coupon…

Not all smart TVs will receive updates for long, and some don’t have any specific policy. Rainer Puster/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No matter the price of a TV you buy, you likely consider it as a long-term investment. You thus expect it to receive support from the manufacturer for as long as possible. In olden times, when you bought a TV, the only worry you had was it eventually breaking. But with smart TVs, there’s also software to consider. Most modern TVs come with their own operating systems…

Pluto Security Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence security software, today announced that it has raised $42 million in funding. The company raised about a fifth of the sum through a seed round led by TLV Partners. The rest arrived in the form of a Series A investment led by Jump Capital. The latter deal also included contributions from several other backers including Skinos, a fund affiliated with Point Software Technologies Ltd. co-founder Shlomo Kramer. Manually identifying every single AI agent in a corporate network is often prohibitively time-consuming. As a result, administrators can overlook agents that pose cybersecurity risks.…

A recent segment on The Daily Show where Jon Stewart Unpacks AI’s Dubious Promise of a “Better Future” exposed a glaring blind spot in executive boardrooms across the globe. In the broadcast, Stewart dissects the White House AI summit, where Silicon Valley’s self-described “seriously high IQ people” insisted they should be trusted to regulate themselves, despite casually admitting their technology carries a 10% to 25% chance of ending humanity. When Stewart pivots to the ultimate kitchen-table issue – “Jobs: will we still have them?” – the wheels come completely off the tech industry’s talking points. We watch a parade of…

Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following massive safety lawsuits. Now Disney wants to step in and scoop up its chatbot assets for $20M. Character.AI’s spectacular fall from grace just reached its logical conclusion. Once Silicon Valley’s darling valued in the billions, the startup officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Mounting safety lawsuits, soaring compute costs, and severe regulatory pressure finally crushed the business. Now, entertainment titan Disney steps into the ring as a “stalking horse” bidder, offering $20 million to grab a perpetual license to Character.AI’s intellectual property. This collapse exposes the companion chatbot’s fundamental flaw: a gold rush.…

As artificial intelligence becomes more and more powerful, its ability to handle human-like tasks is undeniable. Artificial neural networks can learn to recognize images, use language, or write computer code. Like the brain’s circuits, they reorganize themselves as they learn, adjusting the strengths of their connections to improve their performance.The question for many neuroscientists is: What can these machine systems teach them about how the brain learns? And what kinds of models are likely to be the most informative?In a paper published Oct. 9 in the journal PNAS, scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and K. Lisa Yang…

Samsung won’t unveil its first smart glasses until November, but now we know what they will look like — and how light they will be. They’ll come in a variety of styles and colors and weigh only 41 grams, according to a report from tech news outlet SammyGuru. Samsung is expected to launch the smart glasses, possibly called Galaxy Glasses, next month. They will compete in the marketplace against Meta’s Ray-Bans and AI glasses from Apple, which reportedly won’t arrive until next year. XREAL reportedly will launch its Aura glasses sometime this fall. In November, US customers can buy the…

Actor Seth Green—yes, that one—has seen Godzilla Minus Zero and says it’s awesome.While introducing the New York Comic Con panel for the 39th film in the Godzilla franchise, Green stressed that the filmmakers behind the movie “have created kaiju that feel physically real and, trust me, emotionally terrifying.”While a lot of that terror came from the work of Oscar-winning visual effects artist Tatsuji Nojima, some it came from the shrieking of Godzilla and his three-headed nemesis, King Ghidorah. Those roars were the work of sound designer Natsuko Inoue and her team, who created the monsters’ outsize vocalizations by rolling speakers…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from the Singapore Digital Economy Report published by IMDA last week. Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority released its annual Digital Economy Report last week, providing data on the developments in the local tech industry—both directly in the Information & Communications sector and all the tech jobs outside of it. This is an important distinction because many workers or future graduates may think their IT qualifications are best used in major technology companies. But in reality, the demand for their skills may be far greater elsewhere,…

I remember the name of that AI doco now – The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. I was watching it on the long-haul flight home the other day, and what I found particularly engrossing was the polar-opposite opinions from a bunch of people: “it’s gonna kill us all” versus “it’s gonna make us all rich”, and so on. But to some extent, I can understand the gap between opinions when we’re all just speculating about the future. I have much less understanding for why people infatuate with hyping AI as a data breach monster when the evidence…