AI

One-third of help-desk tickets stop work, says study

Nearly one-third of all help-desk tickets handled by large organizations are work-stoppers, according to a study from help-desk automation company Fixify, which also found...

A critical Windows security fix puts legacy hardware on borrowed time

As a result, the program was deprecated in 2021, and all certificates have since expired. However, third-party drivers signed by the program are still...

Can your job be unbundled? If so it is under threat from AI

There have been plenty of warnings about job losses due to AI, particularly in the world of IT and in the reduction of entry-level...

Google targets AI inference bottlenecks with TurboQuant

Gogia, however, sees the initial impact playing out differently, with retrieval and vector search systems likely to benefit first. “Retrieval systems are modular,” Gogia said....

Your instant Android annoyance eliminator

JR Raphael, Foundry When you’ve got everything how you want it, tap “Save Rule” — and that’s it: The next time you receive a notification...

AI chatbots are worse than search engines for medical advice

There is a clear gap between the theoretical medical knowledge of large language models (LLMs) and their practical usefulness for patients, according not a...

Most businesses aren’t truly ready for AI

In the background, the leader of Anthropic’s Safeguards Research Team, Mrinank Sharma, just quit, warning the “world is in peril” from a series of...

‘Today, the real standard is no longer simply ‘wire-free’ but ‘senseless intelligence’ – whether the robot can be like an invisible gardener’ – Segway...

Robot mowers have come a long way in recent years. I got a sneak peek at 2026's new lawnbots at CES, and they're ultra-capable...

Apple unveils its next-gen M5 family of Mac laptops

There are some slight price increases. For example, both the M5 Pro and M5 Max Macs cost roughly $200 more than their predecessors, while...