Aug 20, 2024 | AI, business, news
AI is improving apps and services that we use every day, but that’s not the whole story. There are more important developments powered by AI going on now behind the scenes. I’ve got two examples for you – weather forecasting and virus research – but it will make more...
Aug 13, 2024 | AI, Amazon, Android, Apple, business, Google, Microsoft, search
AI arrived so quickly! You can be forgiven for not knowing how to interpret what’s going on in the tech industry. In 2024, AI combines massive investments with unrealistic hype. It appears to be a bubble with no practical applications, like pet rocks, Tamagotchis, and...
Aug 6, 2024 | AI, Apple, computers, laptops, Microsoft
The Windows laptop market is in disarray. There are some good reasons to wait a year before buying a new computer. (Or buy a Mac. They’re pretty magical.) Your next PC might be one of the latest Windows laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, which feature vastly...
Jul 2, 2024 | AI, Android, augmented reality, glasses
It’s the middle of 2024 and our world is all AI, all the time. AI dominates tech news and the financial world. Giant companies are spending unbelievable amounts of money to improve AI technology and bulk up their server capacity. Nvidia – the company that makes the...
Jun 11, 2024 | AI, Apple, business, computers, laptops, Microsoft, news, Privacy, security
There was a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday for the new Samsung “Bespoke AI” washer/dryer combo. Seriously. Of course “AI laundry” is marketing crap. I’ll bet some business advertised “Crypto Ovens” a couple of years ago. It’s meaningless and stupid. AI...
May 7, 2024 | AI, augmented reality, business, Facebook, glasses, hardware, Quest, virtual reality, Vision Pro
Atech revolution brings changes to the world that are unpredictable. Our first exposure to AI has been chatbots. Very clever chatbots! They’re getting better all the time at conversing as if they’re human. They rewrite emails and summarize subjects and write computer...
