Monthly Archives: April 2024

Alien: Rogue Incursion – In your Quest 3, everybody can hear you scream

There seems to be an ever-growing number of horror games for the Quest 3, it is only a few days since we looked at Nope Challenge. VR is possibly the perfect format for the genre and so it is exciting … Continue reading

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Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload

Indeed and LinkedIn are incorporating more generative AI to improve the recruiting and job-hunting processes. Some recruiters are still unconvinced.

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Tesla jumps 7% in premarket trade after passing key hurdle to roll out full self-driving in China

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OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use

OpenAI, maker of the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT, has netted another news licensing deal in Europe, adding London’s Financial Times to a growing list of publishers it’s paying for content access. As with earlier OpenAI’s publisher licensing deals, financial terms … Continue reading

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Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks. Its Competitors Have Ideas to Improve It

European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.

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Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup Kubik gets fresh funding, plans to license out its tech

Kubik, a plastic upcycling startup, has raised a $1.9 million seed extension, months after announcing initial equity investment. The startup’s latest investment is from African Renaissance Partners, an East African venture capital firm; Endgame Capital, an investor with a bias … Continue reading

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Oracle boosts its generative AI capabilities as cloud competition heats up

Oracle in March announced new generative AI features embedded across applications in finance, supply chain, HR, sales, marketing, and service.

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ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU

OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an individual complainant, targets the inability of its AI chatbot ChatGPT to correct misinformation it generates … Continue reading

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New law aims to protect devices from hackers

Speakers, fitness trackers and other internet-connected devices sold in the UK now have to meet new requirements.

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Humanoid robots are learning to fall well

The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second video is steadily approaching five million views. A … Continue reading

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