Category: Software & Applications

February 12, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) continue to command a blazing bright spotlight, as the debut of ChatGPT captured the world’s imagination and made generative AI the most widely discussed technology in recent memory (apologies, metaverse). ChatGPT catapulted public LLMs onto the […]

February 12, 2024

Google’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the Tiobe language popularity index. The language, now in the eighth ranked position for language popularity, has been on the rise for several years. Go, which is probably […]

February 8, 2024

Say goodbye to Google Bard, and say hello to Google Gemini. On Thursday, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company will be rebranding its AI model Bard as Gemini. The company launched Gemini late last year, calling it […]

February 8, 2024

Windows 11 will soon have a built-in sudo command designed for developers. Sudo, short for “superuser do,” is widely used on Unix-based operating systems like Linux and macOS to run programs with higher security privileges or as another user. It’s […]

February 8, 2024

The Microsoft Store in Windows 11 is about to get a handy new feature that lets you try games without having to download and install them – but will this innovative feature make the unloved app store more popular? The […]

February 8, 2024

Apple says it plans on introducing generative AI features to iPhones later this year. It’s unknown what they are, however, a recently published research paper indicates one of them may be a new type of editing software that can alter […]

February 7, 2024

Have you ever googled yourself and found a slew of results from “people finder” websites with your personal data? These data brokers often profit from selling your information, which can include everything from your social media profiles to your real-world […]

February 7, 2024

Google’s Go (golang) language has reached version 1.22, bringing changes to for loops including a resolution to problem that risked the accidental sharing of loop variables. Released February 6, Go 1.22 can be downloaded and installed from go.dev. Release notes […]

February 2, 2024

Visual Studio Code 1.86, the January 2024 release of Microsoft’s code editor, introduces a voice command, “Hey Code,” that starts a session with Copilot Chat. The new release also brings per-window zoom levels. Unveiled February 1, Visual Studio Code 1.86 […]

February 2, 2024

Google Maps is getting a dose of generative AI to let users search and find places in a more conversational manner, and serve up useful and interesting suggestions. This smart AI tech comes in the form of an “Ask about” […]

February 1, 2024

Microsoft’s November release of .NET 8 brought all kinds of great new features. One of the nice improvements introduced in ASP.NET Core 8 is IExceptionHandler, an interface that makes it easier to handle exceptions gracefully in ASP.NET Core web applications. […]

February 1, 2024

During an October event, Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon X Elite SoC, stating that its new computing platform would be the most “intelligent,” powerful, and efficient processor built for Windows. In December, Qualcomm said that its Arm chip is faster than […]

January 31, 2024

ChatGPT can invite more of its chatbot chums to the party, as users can now directly mention other GPTs to bring them into the conversation. Cool, we guess? Paying ChatGPT subscribers can extend an invitation to third-party generative pre-trained transformers […]

January 31, 2024

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in popularity. Thanks to Microsoft’s Python extension for Visual […]

January 30, 2024

None of this should come as a big surprise considering Microsoft first announced plans to deprecate WordPad back in September 2023. Still for some, it may be hard to see yet another piece of legacy software being phased out. WordPad […]

January 30, 2024

AI has gone big, and so have AI models. 10-billion-parameter universal models are crushing 50-million-parameter task-specific models, demonstrating superior performance at solving many tasks from a single model. AI models are also becoming multi-modal. New vision models like Microsoft’s Florence […]

January 29, 2024

Until relatively recently artificial intelligence was more of a sci-fi concept than anything readily available for everyone. Then something snapped and AI tools started popping up everywhere, quickly followed by AI-powered apps and new AI features in well-known software. All […]

January 26, 2024

Is it a joyous outage where you get to relax, or something mission critical going wrong? Either way, “a portion” of Microsoft Teams is down — with outages in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according […]

January 26, 2024

It’s Friday morning, and you are excited. Today your new generative AI system running on a large public cloud provider is going to begin to work with the existing e-commerce systems that drive 80% of the company’s revenue. The company […]

January 26, 2024

It would seem reports of ‘laziness’ on the part of the ChatGPT AI bot were pretty accurate, as its developer OpenAI just announced a fix for the problem – which should mean the bot takes fewer shortcuts and is less […]