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At 33, she watched her father read a birthday card for the first time in her life
Dave Cragg began losing his sight at 10 and bought AI smart glasses for his 65th birthday. He had doubted they would help. The camera in…
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BPO Summit 2025 opens in Dhaka with a warning from the government’s tech adviser: adopt AI or lose the business
Thirty local and international outsourcing firms, a job fair, an experience zone with drones and robots, and two days of seminars at Sena…
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Google now answers 75% of searches without a click, and AI crawlers take 6,000 pages for every visitor they send — Cloudflare’s CEO says the web’s business model is collapsing
For fifteen years the deal was simple: let Google copy your page and it sends you readers. Matthew Prince, whose company sees a fifth of…
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The Turing Award went to an idea from animal psychology — and it is now how every large language model gets its manners
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton won the 2024 ACM Turing Award, announced in March 2025, for reinforcement learning. The theory predates the…
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The surgical robot learned from footage that already existed — archived wrist-camera video nobody recorded for training
Johns Hopkins and Stanford used imitation learning and a transformer — the architecture behind ChatGPT — to teach a da Vinci robot needle…
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Point Google Lens at a product on the shelf and it shows the price, reviews and whether the shop next door has it cheaper — in the US, for now
With location sharing on, Lens now recognises a product photographed in a physical shop and returns its details, buyer reviews, price and…
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Ten days after ChatGPT got a search engine, Google is testing a voice search you can talk back to — ask, hear results, ask again without touching the mic
A test build of the Google app, spotted by Mashable, lets users ask a question aloud, get results, and follow up with another spoken…
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Google Maps wipes the clouds off its satellite view with an AI model — and Google Earth lets you scroll a city back 80 years
Cloud Score+, a model trained on Sentinel-2 imagery, now removes cloud, haze and smoke from Google Maps’ satellite layer so places that…
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Microsoft is reopening Three Mile Island: a 20-year deal to power AI data centres from the site of America’s worst nuclear accident
Constellation Energy will spend $1.6 billion restarting Unit 1 at Three Mile Island, shut in 2019 for lack of money, and sell all of its…
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Google will heat a Finnish town with its data centre: $1.1bn expansion in Hamina, 80% of the district’s heating from server exhaust by 2025
Google is putting about $1.1 billion into its Hamina data centre and, with the town’s utility Haminan Energia, will pipe the servers’ waste…
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Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot joins your Teams meetings, Edge translates videos live, and AI “agents” start doing the work
At its developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced Team Copilot — an AI participant in Teams meetings that takes notes and…
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WWDC 2024, 10 June: the year Apple finally answers the AI question — what to expect from iOS 18, a smarter Siri and macOS 15
Apple’s developer conference runs 10–14 June and, for the first time, the expectations are about artificial intelligence: Bloomberg’s Mark…