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After an hour with Android XR glasses, I understand why Google is betting everything on this

Glasses are the perfect solution for me; they're light, they're unobtrusive, and Google has plans to make multiple versions of Android XR for glasses ranging from two screens to one screen with overlays to a simple…

‘Fast & Furious’ Takes a Victory Lap With a Ferociously Fun Roller Coaster

But it didn’t stop his fans from having a good time. Photograph: Rich Polk/Getty Images Toward the end of my college days, I harbored a not-so-secret crush. She and I carried on a mild flirtation, dancing around the…

Trusted measurement in the era of autonomous operations

As industry moves towards autonomy, trusted measurement will be essential for assessing the quality of the decisions these technologies make. From optimizing production lines and validating critical infrastructure to…

France’s CEA and Alice & Bob team up on quantum-supercomputer software

The project focuses on Qaptiva, a quantum application platform created by the French state-owned company Bull. Alice & Bob will connect their software to Qaptiva, allowing developers to write a program once and use it on…

Autonomous AI agent hit Spanish firm with vulnerability scans before accessing files and data

Earlier this week Francisco Pérez Bes, president and deputy of the Spanish data protection agency (AEPD) published a new article on the agency’s blog, saying it “received the first notification of a personal data breach…

Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them

The regulator's director of enforcement, Suzanne Cater, told the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee that although another payment arrived this week, "realistically the majority have not been paid." Ofcom…

The EU Wants to Break Up Kids and Their Chatbots

The rules will be part of the EU Kids Act , proposed on Thursday, which includes similar restrictions on minors’ access to social media and video-sharing platforms. Children under 13 will be banned from accessing…

The farmer who turned to singing after bovine TB silenced his fields

It was a traumatic time for a man who had farmed his whole life, and it was hard watching his neighbours tend to their cows. His sister suggested he should join the Farmers' Choir and that turned out to be a "great…

Google Ordered To Allow More Ad Competition

Google will also need to appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor, given the “gravity” of its violations, but the monitor will have less oversight than the Justice Department had requested. The ruling, which was…

Gemini won't clean up my Google Drive, so I let Claude do it; I'm not going back

It's full of PDFs I don't remember downloading, screenshots called things like Screenshot 2024-03-11 at 9.42.17 am, and the same file duplicated across half a dozen folders. I have a digital hygiene routine. But life has…