In her 2019 master’s thesis for the Naval Postgraduate School, Ana Lalley, police chief of Elgin, Illinois, wrote critically about her department’s experience with the software, which left officers unimpressed. “Officers routinely question the prediction method,” she wrote. “Many believe that the awareness of crime trends and patterns they have gained through training and experience … Read more
When I worked as a copywriter at a dog-toy-slash-tech company, we used Airtable and Basecamp to organize our workflows. At my next job, the marketers made us learn Asana (“same as Airtable but much better”), but the product team pushed their work and sprints through Jira. I was laid off before I had to learn … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers purchasing Apple’s new iPhone 15 during a launch event at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York City on Sept. 22, 2023. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Apple said on Saturday that it will issue a software update that would address customer complaints about the latest iPhone 15 … Read more
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Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI photo-generation tool, Stable Diffusion. Now Getty Images is releasing its own AI photo-generation tool, which will be available to its commercial customers. And it’s bringing … Read more
June Wan/ZDNET It’s hardly worth calling them “leaks” anymore given the volume and the fact that there’s a good chance they’re essentially Google-approved advertising for next week’s release, but thanks to a slew of leaks over the weekend, some more details about the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have been revealed. New AI-enhanced … Read more
PCs, for a long time, had a bloatware problem. The major PC manufacturers—Dell, Asus, Acer, and the like—had a bad habit of including “free trials” of software like Norton AntiVirus on new devices. The software companies paid to be included. This got so bad in the late 2000s that many people simply chose to reinstall … Read more
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke considers AI and software program improvement to now be inextricably linked, powered by assistive instruments equivalent to Copilot and its related Copilot Chat, which the Microsoft-owned firm expanded to particular person GitHub subscribers as we speak. However talking on stage at TC Disrupt as we speak, Dohmke maintained that the snowballing AI … Read more
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Apple says it is going to launch a software program replace for iPhone 12 house owners in France, after regulators ordered a halt of gross sales of the telephone over issues the system was breaching strict radiation publicity limits. “We are going to situation a software program replace for customers in France to accommodate the … Read more
Signage on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sales space on the Sensible China Expo in Chongqing, China, on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs Alibaba must be “person first” and “AI-driven,” new CEO Eddie Wu instructed staff on Tuesday, as he laid out the strategic priorities for the Chinese language … Read more