DeepMind says that it has developed an AI model, called RoboCat, that can perform a range of tasks across different models of robotic arms. That alone isn’t especially novel. But DeepMind claims that the model is the first to be able to solve and adapt to multiple tasks and do so using different, real-world robots....Read More
Online fraud is today’s most common crime. Victims are often told they are foolish for falling for it, but fraudsters use psychological mechanisms to infiltrate the defences of their targets, regardless of how intelligent they are. So it’s important to keep up with the latest scams and understand how they work. Recently, consumer protection magazine...Read More
It was reported last month that some Android users were facing a bug that gave WhatsApp microphone access all the time. At that time, WhatsApp said that it was more of a Google and Android-related problem. “We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate,” WhatsApp had...Read More
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued the recommendations on ‘Licensing Framework and Regulatory Mechanism for Submarine Cable Landing in India’. These come after the TRAI received a reference letter from Department of Telecom (DoT) The DoT raised concern about Indian ILDOs (international long-distance operators) who do not have any stake in the consortium owning submarine cable, but...Read More
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
