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Overwatch 2’s Season 2 is a battle for Olympus

Overwatch 2’s Season 2 is a battle for Olympus

Once again Overwatch 2 is the best in show with its skin design. | Blizzard The inaugural season of Overwatch 2’s battle pass is almost done, with season 2 starting on December 6th. With the new season come a fresh set of skins, a new hero, new map, and a new game mode, all with a

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Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. (Image via webcast.) Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that its own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core capabilities. Selipsky sought to reassure AWS

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Gmail now learns from your behaviour, but there's a catch

Gmail now learns from your behaviour, but there's a catch

Gmail is set to get a huge improvement to its search function that will actually work for more users, so long as you turn on the right settings.The email provider has long provided a search function, even offering specific filters and parameters to help its users find the right content in an overflowing inbox, but despite these advanced efforts don’t

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With new chip, augmented reality startup Ixana claims breakthrough in quest for ‘wearable brain’

With new chip, augmented reality startup Ixana claims breakthrough in quest for ‘wearable brain’

Ixana’s three co-founders, L-R: Shovan Maity, head of research; Angik Sarkar, CEO; and Shreyas Sen, a Purdue university professor who came up with the new chip. A previously unknown Seattle startup, founded by semiconductor and technology industry veterans, says it has developed an energy-efficient chip capable of running advanced AI applications on lightweight, wireless augmented reality headsets

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The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

An artist’s conception shows D-Orbit’s ION spacecraft deploying smaller satellites. (D-Orbit Illustration) For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. The experiment, revealed today during AWS’ re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, is

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Human creators stand to benefit as AI rewrites the rules of content creation

Human creators stand to benefit as AI rewrites the rules of content creation

For years, the 150-year-old Colorado State Fair has held its fine art competition under little media glare. But when it announced the 2022 winners in August, this little-known local event immediately sparked controversy around the globe. Judges had picked synthetic media artist Jason Allen’s artificial intelligence-generated work “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” as the winner in the digital category.…

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AWS re:Invent 2022: All the latest news, updates and more

AWS re:Invent 2022: All the latest news, updates and more

Welcome to our live coverage of AWS re:Invent 2022.The cloud computing giant has once again taken over Las Vegas to show off and celebrate its successes over the last year, and is also set to reveal a whole host of new releases, upgrades and more.This week, we’re set to hear keynotes from AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President

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Sale still on: 5-star Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless headphones drop even lower

Sale still on: 5-star Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless headphones drop even lower

You’ll know this already, but good things never last. Black Friday, Cyber weekend and Cyber Monday have all been and gone. But there is good news! The excellent Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless are still discounted – and the deal just got even better! If you’re after a pair (and can we just compliment you on your great taste there) you’ll be shocked

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The AI myth Western lawmakers get wrong

The AI myth Western lawmakers get wrong

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. While the US and the EU may differ on how to regulate tech, their lawmakers seem to agree on one thing: the West needs to ban AI-powered social scoring.As they understand it, social scoring is a

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41+ best Cyber Monday gift ideas: AirPods, Keurig, robot vacs, air fryers and more

41+ best Cyber Monday gift ideas: AirPods, Keurig, robot vacs, air fryers and more

Cyber Monday has arrived, which means incredible gift ideas on everything from AirPods, tablets, and smart speakers to coffee makers, robot vacuums, and air fryers from brands like Apple, Keurig, Instant Pot, and more. The Cyber Monday deals event is the perfect opportunity to cross someone off your shopping list and score a fantastic bargain at the same time.

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Quick! 5-star Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless are still on offer for Cyber Monday

Quick! 5-star Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless are still on offer for Cyber Monday

The long and short of it is this: Cyber Monday 2022 has been a hoot, but good things never last. Thus, if you wanted to bag yourself a set of the excellent Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless (and can we just compliment you on your great taste there) you’d better make hay while the sun shines. And those of you who have

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Building a sustainable hybrid work culture

Building a sustainable hybrid work culture

It’s clear that hybrid working is here to stay, with many businesses exploring how best to sustain the new reality of work and maximize employee engagement. Although businesses continue to grapple with figuring out what remote working means for them, at least we know it’s clear the days of going into an office five days a week are long gone. Now,

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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

Adam Selipsky, AWS CEO, will lead his second re:Invent since returning to the company last year. (Amazon Photo) Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more

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WF-1000XM4: snap up the best Sony earbuds for the best Cyber Monday price!

WF-1000XM4: snap up the best Sony earbuds for the best Cyber Monday price!

If you’re after a set of Sony’s excellent WF-1000XM4 in-ear true wireless noise-cancellers this Cyber Monday, you’re in good company – it’s one of the most searched-for products of Cyber weekend. And we’re proud of that fact, since we also rate them so highly – which is why we want you to have the best deal. Right now, you can snap up your

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How technology is helping remove racist language in Washington state property deeds

How technology is helping remove racist language in Washington state property deeds

A brochure advertising Seattle’s Blue Ridge neighborhood included language limiting homeownership and rentals to people of the white or Caucasian race. (Photo courtesy of the UW’s Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project) If you live in a home built before the 1950s, there’s a chance that lurking in its property records is racist language.

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Still looking for a Sony WH-1000XM4 deal? Here's the best one on Cyber Monday

Still looking for a Sony WH-1000XM4 deal? Here's the best one on Cyber Monday

If you’re hankering after a set of Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM4 over-ear wireless noise-cancellers this Cyber Monday, you’re not alone – it’s one of the most searched for products of the season. And we’re here for it.We have to tell you that briefly (oh, so briefly!) yesterday, they did drop to $193 at Amazon… but that fleeting and euphoric moment passed in

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Data Strategy: Synthetic Data and Other Tech for AI's Next Phase

Data Strategy: Synthetic Data and Other Tech for AI's Next Phase

Forrester’s Data Strategy & Insights event will offer insights to help you take your machine learning and artificial intelligence initiatives to the next phase.