In early June, complaints began cropping up on Twitter that Outlook was down for as many as 18,000 users at the peak of what, it turns out, was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, according to a story in The Associated Press (AP) this morning. Microsoft acknowledged the attack in a blog post on Friday, offering some technical details and...Read More
Facebook parent Meta, introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can convert a chunk of new speech from text input and a brief audio clip for context. Called Voicebox, the company said that it can perform speech generation tasks it was not specifically trained on. However, the company is not releasing the chatbot for public use. According...Read More
After testing the smart chips feature for a while, Google has finally announced its availability to Docs users across the globe. The feature allows users to embed third-party apps — smart chips — into Google Docs. The feature has arrived as a part of Google’s new smart canvas revamp of the office suite services which also includes the...Read More
The Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) encompasses a variety of topics in education and learning, including but not limited to child development, curriculum, reading comprehension, philosophies of education, STEM education, instructional technology, technology education, inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning, simulation-based learning, pedagogic and educational approaches, learning management, language teaching research, teaching and learning at all...Read More
Microsoft is adding a Copilot AI assistant to Windows 11. Much like the Copilot sidebars we’ve seen in Edge, Office apps, and even GitHub, Windows Copilot will be integrated directly into Windows 11 and available to open and use from the taskbar across all apps and programs. “Once open, the Windows Copilot side bar stays...Read More
Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric). The new platform centers around Microsoft’s OneLake data lake, but can also pull in data from Amazon S3 and (soon) Google Cloud Platform, and includes everything from integration tools, a Spark-based data engineering platform, a real-time...Read More
Electric motors are everywhere – in our homes, factories, cars, office equipment, and countless other places. There are about 8 billion in use within the European Union (EU) ranging from tiny motors, such as those driving cooling fans in computers, to huge motors in heavy industries, accounting for nearly 50% of member states’ total electricity consumption. In...Read More
More Connected Devices Means More Endpoints for Cybersecurity Threats. The fifth generation (5G) of wireless technology has and will continue to transform telecommunications. Many new connections, capabilities, and services will enable connections to millions of edge devices in the wake of Industry 4.0. In this article, we provide an overview of the significance of not...Read More
If you look ahead on the roadmap to 2024, some impressive parts are coming from AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, targeting your PC that will change dramatically how these machines work. This period is when hardware tries to catch up with the generative AI trend, and our PCs, tablets, and smartphones get smarter. But the real...Read More
As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies and businesses operate. The European Union is at the forefront of drafting new AI rules that could set the global benchmark to address privacy and safety concerns that have...Read More
