Author: InfoForTech
The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing that helps determine the trajectory of researchers’ studies. This includes building a research team, which demands innovative ideas and direction, creative collaborators, and reliable resources. For a group of MIT faculty working with and on artificial intelligence, early engagement with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab through projects has played an important role helping to promote ambitious lines of inquiry and shaping prolific research groups.Building momentum“The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab has been hugely important for my success, especially when I was starting…
It might be time to rethink what it means to be sick as a dog. On Tuesday, Fi, a smart pet technology company, announced a new AI-powered chatbot to help owners stay on top of their dog’s health using a blend of personal information and generalized dog breed data. The AI agent, which the company is calling Fi Intelligence, is integrated directly into the Fi app. It has access to all the information gathered about your dog across the entire suite of Fi products, including the Fi Series 3 Plus and Fi Mini dog collars, as well as information and documents…
Pour one out from your digital bottle, because Meta is shutting down the virtual reality experience of Horizon Worlds.Meta sent an email blast to Horizon Worlds users today stating that the social VR world will officially end on its Quest VR headsets; starting March 31, Horizon Worlds will no longer be in the Quest store. Some Horizon-specific perks, including Meta Credits, avatars, and some digital clothes and in-world purchases, will also be removed. The VR worlds will be shutting down entirely on June 15, after which the service will be available only as a mobile platform.The move comes after Meta…
Local large‑language‑model (LLM) inference has become one of the most exciting frontiers in AI. As of 2026, powerful consumer GPUs such as NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 and Apple’s M4 Ultra enable state‑of‑the‑art models to run on a desk‑side machine rather than a remote data center. This shift isn’t just about speed; it touches on privacy, cost control, and independence from third‑party APIs. Developers and researchers can experiment with models like LLAMA 3 and Mixtral without sending proprietary data into the cloud, and enterprises can scale inference in edge clusters with predictable budgets. In response, Clarifai has invested heavily in local‑model tooling—providing compute orchestration,…
Because the surface isn’t just servers and subdomains anymore. It’s identities, SaaS connections, ephemeral cloud services, and suppliers’ mistakes that become your problems. Discovery has improved—EASM tools map the outside-in view of internet-facing assets, while exposure-management programs like CTEM nudge teams to iterate through scoped, measurable improvements instead of boiling the ocean.What’s changed is the mix. Identities and SaaS have turned into real-time entry points. Developers spin up short-lived services that vanish before a weekly scan. And your brand’s DNS, TLS, and web fingerprint are tracked by adversaries as carefully as you track them internally. Attack surface analysis has to…
[This is a sponsored article with the Singapore Government Partnerships Office.] For most of us, catching a bus is second nature and a routine. A shade of bright green comes into our view, we glance at the service number, take one step forward, and that’s it—we’re on our way. But for someone visually impaired, that everyday task can feel completely different. At a crowded bus stop, they rely on the distant hiss of brakes or snippets of conversation to guess whether the next bus is theirs. One wrong step could send them to an unfamiliar neighbourhood and derail their whole day. This…
The intersection of professional sports and cloud computing has enabled leagues and organizations to accelerate innovation. However, the partnership between the PGA Tour and Amazon Web Services Inc. is currently entering a new phase: the hyper-personalized era. This week the golf world descended upon TPC Sawgrass for THE PLAYERS Championship, to watch Cam Young take the title. AWS and the PGA Tour are using the event to debut a suite of technologies that doesn’t just track the ball but interprets the game. At THE PLAYERS, the PGA Tour introduced TOURCAST Range and tested agentic production, an AI-driven service to enable…
In the beginning, it was simple. A website, a database and 150M+ email addresses to search. Time has added serverless functions (which run on servers 🤷♂️), code on the edge, new data storage constructs and a completely different mechanism for even just querying a simple email address. HIBP is a continually evolving beast, and barely a week goes by that we don’t implement code of significance. You don’t always see it out there in the public realm, but the tweaks – in including the major one I talk about in this week’s video – all add up to make the…
Everyone is treating AEO like a new discipline that replaces SEO. It does not. It is the same discipline with a sharper mandate. The brands that understand this will win. The ones chasing the new acronym without the foundation will not. A new term enters the marketing conversation. Decks get updated. Agencies rebrand their service pages. LinkedIn fills up with takes about how SEO is dead and AEO is the future and if you are not optimizing for answer engines right now you are already behind. And somewhere in the middle of all of that noise, the actual idea gets…
Few digital media platforms have made as big an impact as TikTok. But since the late 2010s, TikTok has matured from an experimental short-form video-sharing platform into a cultural (and revenue-sharing) phenomenon. Today, TikTok not only sets the agenda for social media, but the way we create and consume media in general.In this article, “TikTok Statistics 2025: Users, Growth, and Global Trends,” we get an overview of the platform’s reach and growth. From user growth and demographics to engagement and revenue, this article gives us a sense of the ecosystem the platform has built, as well as its ability to…