Paul Hill

System76, the OEM that focuses on open-source computing, has refreshed the Galago Pro with a move to Intel H-class processors. Prices for the laptop start at $999 but customizations will push this up.

Google Bard now asks users for their precise location. This enables the chatbot to provide better information about local businesses, provide local weather reports, give you directions, and more.

NASA is giving the public a chance to have their names stencilled onto a microchip that will be sent to Europa, a moon of Jupiter. If you choose to add it, your name should arrive by 2030.

Sources familiar with the matter report that Microsoft and CoreWeave have signed a potentially multi-billion dollar deal earlier this year. CoreWeave is currently providing computing power for OpenAI.

Google Play Books users in the United States can now use a feature called Reading Practice. It's aimed at children to help them develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills independently.

Brave 1.52 is out on desktop and introduces vertical tabs. Vertical tabs are useful for people with wider screens who have more room to spare. Vertical tabs can also be collapsed to their favicons.

OpenAI is currently researching process supervision, a method for reducing the number of hallucinations produced by LLMs. It has had success with maths datasets but needs to be tested generally.

The Brave Search API is now live. The service is free for companies and developers for limited use but also offers several paid tiers for those who have more demanding requirements.

The PC market in the United States has bottomed out, according to Canalys. The analyst company said that it expects to see some sort of recovery take place in the fourth quarter of this year.

Xiaomi will start locally producing audio products that it sells in India. To achieve this is will be partnering with Optiemus which has a manufacturing facility in Uttar Pradesh in northern India.

MediaTek and NVIDIA have partnered up to develop new systems-on-chips for vehicles that will deliver AI and other infotainment features for all types of cars from entry-level to luxury.

We have an interesting week coming up with China launching astronauts to its space station and SpaceX sending an unmanned Dragon 2 on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.

In this editorial, I argue that big tech companies are making the right decision by making sweeping job cuts, despite being hard to do and hard on the people whose lives are affected as a result.

As part of its layoffs, Meta let engineers go who were working on a fact-checking feature for Facebook. The feature has now been scrapped but would have added fact-checking comments above articles.

In this editorial, I go over a few valuation metrics to see whether NVIDIA is trading at a fair price after its recent price explosion. When buying stocks, it is important not to pay over the odds.

Google Search users in the US are able to access Search Labs features from today. The main addition is the Search Generative Experience which adds generative AI directly to your Google Searches.