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Thursday • September 19, 2024
Microsoft launches a Windows app for iPhones, Macs, and Android devices
Stream a Copy of Windows to Almost Any Device
Microsoft is launching a Windows app today for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, web browsers, Android devices, and even Windows PCs. The Windows app is essentially a hub for streaming a copy of Windows from a variety of sources, including Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop, and more.
This new unified app has been in testing for nearly a year and includes a customizable homescreen, multi-monitor support, and USB redirection so you can use local devices like webcams, storage devices, and printers as if they were plugged directly in to a cloud PC.
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Sunday • September 15, 2024
Huawei’s home-grown mobile OS without Android support set to launch this month
HarmonyOS Next is ‘Entirely Independently Developed and Autonomous’, Executive Says at Trade Fair
Huawei Technologies will soon launch the latest iteration of its home-grown mobile operating system HarmonyOS Next, an executive reportedly said, boosting the telecommunications equipment giant’s bid to take on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS in the domestic market.
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Monday • September 9, 2024
AI-powered visual search comes to the iPhone
Apple Says The Feature Will Respect Your Privacy and That Its Services Will Never Store Your Images
Visual search is coming to the iPhone, powered by Apple Intelligence, Apple’s suite of AI capabilities, the company announced at Monday’s Apple Event 2024. The Camera Control, the new button on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, can launch what Apple calls “visual intelligence” — basically a reverse image search combined with some text recognition.
If you use visual intelligence to search for a restaurant, for example, it’ll pull up restaurant hours, ratings and options to check out the menu or make a reservation, Apple says. Or, if you come across a flier for an event, you can use visual intelligence to quickly add the title, time, date and location to your calendar.
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Tuesday • July 23, 2024
Samsung is pouring research into ‘AI phones’ with ‘radically different’ hardware
What is an AI Phone? That’s a Question We’re Still Waiting For an Answer On
As with everywhere else, AI is taking a big role in the smartphone market. And, apparently, Samsung has plans to make dedicated “AI phones” that are “radically different” from the Galaxy phones we see today.
Speaking to Australian Financial Review (via GSMArena), Samsung’s TM Roh explained that the company is currently spending the “lion’s share” of its research and development (R&D) efforts on creating “AI phones.”
The idea of an “AI phone” has been floating around a lot in the past two years, but most attempts at dedicated AI hardware have been rough, to say the least. Rather, it’s traditional smartphones with added AI features that have proven their worth, such as Samsung’s own Galaxy S24 series.
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Friday • May 10, 2024
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
Apple Plans to Announce That It Will Bring Generative A.I. To iPhones
Apple’s top software executives decided early last year that Siri, the company’s virtual assistant, needed a brain transplant. The decision came after the executives Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT. The product’s use of generative artificial intelligence, which can write poetry, create computer code and answer complex questions, made Siri look antiquated, said two people familiar with the company’s work, who didn’t have permission to speak publicly.
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Monday • April 22, 2024
Apple acquires French startup behind AI and computer vision technology
Datakalab Described Itself as “Experts in Low Power, Runtime Efficient, and Deep Learning Algorithms” That Work on Device
Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab, a Paris, France-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence compression and computer vision technology. According to French business magazine Challenges, the acquisition was finalized in December.
On its LinkedIn page, Datakalab highlights “industry leading compression and adaptation to deploy embedded computer vision that is fast, cost-effective and precise.” Prior to the Apple acquisition had between 10 and 20 employees.
Datakalab teamed up with the French government in May 2020 to deploy AI tools into Paris transportation systems to check whether people were wearing face masks. The company also worked with Disney and other partners in the past.
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