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Mozilla debuts its new Firefox logos
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Mozilla today introduced a new Firefox family of logos, a rebranding effort it kicked off more than 18 months ago. For most people, Firefox refers to a browser, but the company now wants the brand to encompass the entire Firefox family of apps and services.“The ‘Firefox’ you’ve always known as a browser is stretching to cover a family of products and services united by putting you and your privacy first,” Mozilla explained. “Firefox is a browser AND an encrypted...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Mozilla today introduced a new Firefox family of logos, a rebranding effort it kicked off more than 18 months ago. For most people, Firefox refers to a browser, but the company now wants the brand to encompass the entire Firefox family of apps and services.“The ‘Firefox’ you’ve always known as a browser is stretching to cover a family of products and services united by putting you and your privacy first,” Mozilla explained. “Firefox is a browser AND an encrypted...WW…

Game industry’s first mental health event debuts in October
×Please wait...Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. .The will take place on October 9-October 10 in Toronto, Canada, and it will be the first such event on for game industry professionals.It is based on the notion that game industry professionals are just like everyone else. And in any given year, one in five people in Canada and the United States will personally experience a mental health problem or illness. But games require a mental health conference of their own...…×Please wait...Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. .The will take place on October 9-October 10 in Toronto, Canada, and it will be the first such event on for game industry professionals.It is based on the notion that game industry professionals are just like everyone else. And in any given year, one in five people in Canada and the United States will personally experience a mental health problem or illness. But games require a mental health conference of their own...WW…

Portland City Council votes to ban facial recognition technologies in public places
×Please wait...Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. .The Portland, Oregon City Council today unanimously voted to adopt two of the strongest bans on facial recognition technologies in the U.S. One prohibits the public use of facial recognition by city bureaus, including the Portland Police Department, while the other bans all private use in places of “public accommodation,” like parks and buildings. The ordinances originally contained an amendment that would have...…×Please wait...Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. .The Portland, Oregon City Council today unanimously voted to adopt two of the strongest bans on facial recognition technologies in the U.S. One prohibits the public use of facial recognition by city bureaus, including the Portland Police Department, while the other bans all private use in places of “public accommodation,” like parks and buildings. The ordinances originally contained an amendment that would have...WW…

Amazon launches Braket quantum computing service in general availability
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Amazon today the general availability of , a fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. Customers can tap Braket — which launched in preview last December — to test and troubleshoot algorithms on simulated quantum computers running in the cloud to help verify their implementation. Users can then run those algorithms on quantum processors in systems from , , and .In...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Amazon today the general availability of , a fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. Customers can tap Braket — which launched in preview last December — to test and troubleshoot algorithms on simulated quantum computers running in the cloud to help verify their implementation. Users can then run those algorithms on quantum processors in systems from , , and .In...WW…

OpenAI launches Microscope to visualize the neurons in popular machine learning models
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .OpenAI today launched Microscope, a library of neuron visualizations starting with nine popular or heavily neural networks. In all, the collection encompasses millions of images. Like a microscope can do in a laboratory, Microscope is made to help AI researchers better understand the architecture and behavior of neural networks with tens of thousands of neurons.Initial models in Microscope include historically important and commonly studied computer vision models like...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .OpenAI today launched Microscope, a library of neuron visualizations starting with nine popular or heavily neural networks. In all, the collection encompasses millions of images. Like a microscope can do in a laboratory, Microscope is made to help AI researchers better understand the architecture and behavior of neural networks with tens of thousands of neurons.Initial models in Microscope include historically important and commonly studied computer vision models like...WW…

Google faces $5 billion lawsuit for tracking users in Incognito mode
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .(Reuters) — Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in a “private” mode.The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion, accusing the Alphabet unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google .According to the complaint filed in...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .(Reuters) — Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in a “private” mode.The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion, accusing the Alphabet unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google .According to the complaint filed in...WW…

A bright future for Moore’s Law
×Please wait...Presented by IntelMoore’s Law has been the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry for more than fifty years. For thirty of those years, I have had the privilege of working in Intel’s technology development organization — giving me a bird’s eye view of the breakthrough innovations that have enabled continued improvements in transistor density, performance, and energy efficiency. While there are many voices today predicting , I couldn’t disagree more. I believe the future is brighter than ever, with more innovative technology options in the pipeline now than I have...…×Please wait...Presented by IntelMoore’s Law has been the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry for more than fifty years. For thirty of those years, I have had the privilege of working in Intel’s technology development organization — giving me a bird’s eye view of the breakthrough innovations that have enabled continued improvements in transistor density, performance, and energy efficiency. While there are many voices today predicting , I couldn’t disagree more. I believe the future is brighter than ever, with more innovative technology options in the pipeline now than I have...WW…

The hidden danger of ChatGPT and generative AI | The AI Beat
Skip to main contentCheck out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now.Since OpenAI launched its early demo of ChatGPT last Wednesday, the tool already has over a million users, according to CEO Sam Altman — a milestone, he points out, that took GPT-3 nearly 24 months to get to and DALL-E over 2 months. The “interactive, conversational model,” based on the company’s GPT-3.5 text-generator, certainly has the tech world in full swoon mode. Aaron Levie,...…Skip to main contentCheck out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now.Since OpenAI launched its early demo of ChatGPT last Wednesday, the tool already has over a million users, according to CEO Sam Altman — a milestone, he points out, that took GPT-3 nearly 24 months to get to and DALL-E over 2 months. The “interactive, conversational model,” based on the company’s GPT-3.5 text-generator, certainly has the tech world in full swoon mode. Aaron Levie,...WW…

Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .(Reuters) — Tech giants, including Microsoft and Google, on Monday joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company , filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned the Israeli firm’s tools were “powerful, and dangerous.”The brief, filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, opens up a new front in Facebook’s lawsuit against NSO, after it was revealed that the cyber surveillance firm had exploited a bug in Facebook-owned instant messaging...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .(Reuters) — Tech giants, including Microsoft and Google, on Monday joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company , filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned the Israeli firm’s tools were “powerful, and dangerous.”The brief, filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, opens up a new front in Facebook’s lawsuit against NSO, after it was revealed that the cyber surveillance firm had exploited a bug in Facebook-owned instant messaging...WW…

Opensignal: U.S. lags behind 7 leading 5G countries in download speeds
×Please wait...Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. .Fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks have promised to deliver dramatically faster speeds than their 4G predecessors, and that promise is already being met in almost every country where 5G has rolled out — except the United States. As latest reveals, average U.S. 5G download speeds are still hovering below the country’s typical Wi-Fi speeds, an issue the wireless measurement firm attributes to the .Across...…×Please wait...Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. .Fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks have promised to deliver dramatically faster speeds than their 4G predecessors, and that promise is already being met in almost every country where 5G has rolled out — except the United States. As latest reveals, average U.S. 5G download speeds are still hovering below the country’s typical Wi-Fi speeds, an issue the wireless measurement firm attributes to the .Across...WW…

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