What Are Biometric Payments & How Do They Work?
Biometric payment technology combines convenience with high-level security to create re liable and fast transactions. But what does it take to adopt biometric payments?Key takeaways: Biometric payments make use of a customer’s unique physical attributes to authenticate a transaction.Touch ID on smartphones — using fingerprints to confirm digital wallet payments — is the most widely […]
GenAI Can Make Us Dumber — Even While Boosting Efficiency
Knowledge workers who used genAI tools found it could boost efficiency — at the risk of diminishing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, according to research from Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft.Generative AI (genAI) tools based on deep learning are quickly gaining adoption, but their use is raising concerns about how they affect human thought. A new survey […]
Ransomware Gangs Now Extort Victims Within 17 Hours of Intrusion
The window for intrusion detection keeps getting shorter as ransomware group’s time-to-ransom (TTR) accelerates.Ransomware gangs are operating much more quickly than before, leaving less time for organizations to detect them. According to analysis of ransomware incidents over the past year, the average time-to-ransom (TTR) is around 17 hours; for some groups, it is as little […]
AI Chatbots Surpass Physicians in Diagnostic Reasoning
Chatbots quickly surpassed human physicians in diagnostic reasoning — the crucial first step in clinical care — according to a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine. The study suggests physicians who have access to large language models (LLMs), which underpin generative AI (genAI) chatbots, demonstrate improved performance on several patient care tasks compared to colleagues without access to […]
OpenAI’s New Operator: AI Agent Revolutionizing Web Tasks
OpenAI recently announced Operator, an AI agent designed to perform tasks on the web. After testing it (yes, I paid the $200 bucks, but, more importantly, I kept the subscription), this is a game-changer, but not for the reason you think. This article will probably get me in trouble with my business partner. I’m about to […]
Microsoft Introduces Windows Copilot Runtime for AI Development
Microsoft has finally delivered an experimental release of the Windows App SDK with artificial intelligence APIs. I took it for a spin.Announced at the May 2024 launch of Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs, the Windows Copilot Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s push to bring AI inferencing out from Azure and on to the edge and our laptops. Since […]
JetBrains’ Ktor 3.1.0 Introduces CLI for Easier Project Setup
Kotlin-based web framework introduces a new command-line tool to create projects and enhances server-sent events with serialization, reconnection, and heartbeat features. JetBrains’ Ktor 3.1.0, an update to the Kotlin-based framework for asynchronous server-side and client-side applications, is n ow available, featuring a command-line tool for simpler creation of projects. The update also brings new features to […]
Perplexity AI: A Superior Alternative to Google’s Gemini Assistant
I’m an Android user and have been since version 1.5 of the OS. Over the p ast year or so, Google has switched its default assistant to its powerful AI solution, Gemini. For a while, I used Gemini on Android to get answers to my questions. I even made use of Gemini Live (which is quite impressive). […]
AI Humanoid Robots Get $350M Boost for Expansion
AI-powered humanoid robots th at co-exist with humans to help our workloads may seem like the plot of a sci-fi movie, but companies have been working on them for years. Case in point: Apptronik, a robotics lab founded in early 2016, has been working on a 5-foot 8-inch, 160-pound, general-purpose humanoid robot named Apollo. The […]
AI Meeting Coach Helps You Speak Confidently
Struggle to keep up in meetings? Hedy AI records, transcribes, and provides smart talking points to help you contribute confidently in any conversation. When you’re in an all-hands meeting, you’re likely feeling two things. First, you struggle to jot down all the important points — usually everything your boss says. Second, you may feel bored, […]
How Long Does It Take to Crack Your Password?
Hackers can crack weak passwords in seconds, while strong ones may take years. Learn about the time to crack your password and boost security. Security experts advise creating strong, complex passwords to protect our online accounts and data from savvy cybercriminals. And “c omplex” typically means using lowercase and uppercase characters, numbers, and even special […]
AI & Taxes: 5 Smart Uses and 10 Tasks You Should Avoid
Tax preparation is changing fast but AI still has flaws. Here’s where AI tax too ls shine, where they fail, and how to use them wisely. In a recent test of ChatGPT’s Deep Research feature, the AI was asked to identify 20 jobs that OpenAI’s new o3 model was likely to replace. As ZDNET’s Sabrina Ortiz […]