We’re three days away from the WWDC keynote. With the possible announcement of the Reality Pro headset, we have yet another hint at this upcoming device. This time, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman notes a job listing posted by Apple. The company is seeking people interested in “Conversational and Generative AI,” and it seems to imply there…
Apple has released its latest Safari Technology Preview, a version of its Mac Safari web browser that is used as a way to get experimental features into the hands of testers before making them available to a wider audience.This latest release is Safari Technology Preview 171, and it can now be downloaded from Apple’s servers…
The Metropolitan Police Services’ (MPS) director of intelligence has defended the force’s use of facial-recognition technology to a Parliamentary committee, as part of its inquiry into the UK’s governance of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The session follows reports that policing minister Chris Philp, in closed-door meetings with the biometrics commissioner of England and Wales, has…
TSMC has revealed some additional details about its upcoming N2 and N2P process technology at its European Technology Symposium 2023. Both production nodes are being developed with high-performance computing (HPC) in mind, so, they feature a number of enhancements designed specifically to improve performance. Meanwhile, given the performance-efficiency focus that most chips aim to improve…
The UK government has deployed a “collaborative swarm” of autonomous drones to detect and track military targets using artificial intelligence (AI), as part of a joint trial with Australia and the US. Organised by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and held in April 2023, the trial involved deploying the drones in a…
Siri may be the future of generative AI at Apple Apple has to deal with the “AI race” just like every other tech company, which means it has to hire talent to help shape what that means for the company as a whole. And, sure enough, the company’s on the hunt. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is…
As part of their efforts to push the boundaries on the largest manufacturable chip sizes, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is working on its new Chip-On-Wafer-On-Substrate-L (CoWoS-L) packaging technology that will allow it to build larger Super Carrier interposers. Aimed at the 2025 time span, the next generation of TSMC’s CoWoS technology will allow for interposers reaching up…
At its 2023 Technology Symposium TSMC revealed some additional details about its upcoming N4X technology that is designed specifically for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. This node promises to enable ultra-high performance and improve efficiency while maintaining IP compatibility with N4P (4 nm-class) process technology. “N4X truly sets a new benchmark for how we can push extreme performance…
Offering an update on its work with complementary field-effect transistors (CFETs) as part of the company’s European Technology Symposium 2023, TSMC has revealed that it has working CFETs within its labs. But even with the progress TSMC has made so far, the technology is still in its early days, generations away from mass production. In…
Non-departmental funding body UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) must pay HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) £36m in back-dated tax after a review of its IR35 compliance procedures uncovered historic errors in how it classified the employment status of some of its contractors. UKRI is a funding body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and…
