Meta has delivered the first significant update to Threads since the social network launched earlier this month, and you might appreciate it if you’re still building your contact list. The company’s Cameron Roth has detailed an upgrade to the iOS app that adds a Follows tab to the activity feed, making it easier to see who just followed you. You’ll have an easier time following…
With less than 100 days to go before its Oct. 5 launch, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is undergoing final preparations at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Teams of engineers and technicians are working almost around the clock to ensure the orbiter is ready to journey 2.5 billion miles…
Goodbye, Xbox Live Gold — Hello, Game Pass Core
July 19, 2023
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Xbox announced yesterday that it is phasing out Xbox Live Gold, its long-running subscription service for online multiplayer, later this year. It’s…
In a blockbuster announcement today designed to coincide with the Microsoft Inspire conference, Meta announced its new AI model, LLaMA 2 (Large Language Model Meta AI). Not only is this new large language model (LLM) now available, it’s also open-source and freely available for commercial use — unlike the first LLaMA, which was licensed only for research purposes.
The news, coupled with…
German enterprise software giant SAP is putting skin into the AI game.
The company today announced it has directly invested in three AI startups: Cohere, Anthropic (maker of the Claude 2 LLM service) and Aleph Alpha.
While the company did not specify a dollar amount of its…
Someone with deep pockets has snapped up a piece of tech history after forking over $190,000 for a first-generation iPhone from 2007. That’s around 300 times the device’s original price.
Don’t expect to fetch anything close to this kind of windfall by…
NVIDIA just officially released the 2008 fan-made Portal mod, Portal: Prelude. The company dropped it on Steam and, what’s more, it’s free for anyone who has the original game. This isn’t a drab re-release, as the updated release features new textures, full ray tracing, DLSS 3 for increased performance, NVIDIA Reflex for decreased latency and RTX IO for quicker load times.
NVIDIA also…
WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory has pushed the launch of an experimental navigation satellite until next spring due to the delayed debut of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Navigation Technology Satellite-3 was slated to fly at the end of…
WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Board wants the Pentagon to create an “Oasis” of funding to help technology projects transition from development to production.
In a July 17 report examining the U.S. Defense Department’s engagement with commercial companies and…
During Splunk’s .conf23 event, the company announced Splunk AI, a suite of AI-driven solutions designed to enhance its unified security and observability platform. According to the company, the latest development combines automation with human-in-the-loop experiences to empower organizations to improve their detection, investigation and response capabilities while maintaining control over AI…
