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High-powered computer chip maker Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new AI model developed by its researchers that can generate or transform any mix of music, voices and sounds described with prompts using any combination of text and audio files The new AI model called Fugatto -- for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus -- can create a music sni...
Paradoxical tensions among consumers are making their behavior unpredictable and baffling many sellers, according to a report released Monday by a global strategy and management consulting firm Consumers want choice but are overwhelmed by it; want to control their decisions but want curation of their choices; and want to live certain values but can...
Risk management in many organizations is mired in a framework that can't keep pace with the challenges that most enterprise risk teams face. It needs to be modernized That's the verdict that senior analysts Cody Scott and Alla Valente handed down in a recent Forrester Research blog that's critical of the Three Lines of Defense (3LOD) approach, whic...
Package thieves snatched US$12 billion in goods this year, according to a report released Tuesday by Security.org Based on a survey of 11,000 adults in 50 states, the report also noted that one-quarter of American adults have had a package stolen, and 4% (14 million people) suffered a theft within the last three months. The average value of each st...
Despite increased spending by many businesses, 2025 looks like a lackluster year for customer experience (CX) quality, according to Forrester Research "For most brands, 2025 will be another year of CX mediocrity following years of decline and an all-time low in quality in 2024," Forrester predicts. "That’s because many executives mistakenly inter...
Search engines using artificial intelligence could harmfully disrupt the digital economy, warns a researcher at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center "[I]f AI search becomes our primary portal to the web, it threatens to disrupt an already precarious digital economy," Benjamin Brooks wrote in a recent article in the MIT Technology Review....
Meta is reportedly working on an AI-powered search engine that will crawl the web for information, a move that could disrupt how advertising is sold online Currently, Meta's AI chatbot gets information about news, sports, stocks, and other current events from Google and Bing, a situation the company is looking to change, according to a report appea...
Fast, secure, reliable connectivity is now an expectation at multifamily residences, according to a report released Monday by market research and consulting company Parks Associates and Xfinity Communities Residents need access to high-speed internet services to work, attend class, and stream video and games, among other high-bandwidth activities, ...
The gurus at Gartner released their list of top 10 strategic technology trends to watch in 2025 on Monday -- a list heavily influenced by artificial intelligence “This year’s top strategic technology trends span AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy,” Gartner Vice President Analyst Gene Alvarez said in...
Deception is critical to the malevolent activity of Black Hat hackers, but, as Microsoft recently showed, it can also be a powerful weapon against those hackers At a BSides event earlier this year in Exeter, England, the software maker's "head of deception,” Ross Bevington, described an ambitious project that lured cybercriminals into realistic-l...
Market watchers may not agree on how much smartphone shipments grew in this year's third calendar quarter, but they do agree on one thing: the market is emerging from its post-pandemic doldrums Global market research company Canalys reported Monday that worldwide smartphone shipments grew 5% in Q3 compared to the same period in 2023. The increase m...
Apple's pricey Vision Pro augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) headset hasn't been a magnet for developers The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that there has been a significant slowdown in apps being introduced in the Vision Pro app store. After hundreds of apps were introduced for the US$3,500 headset during its first two months on the ma...
The streaming television industry has been accused of operating a massive data-driven surveillance apparatus that is transforming TVs into sophisticated monitoring, tracking, and targeting devices In a 48-page report released Monday, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) outlined how the connected TV (CTV) industry captures ...
A gaming platform is warning parents about gaming scams aimed at children Cybercriminals are targeting young gamers, exploiting their innocence for financial gain, according to a report released Friday by Mobile Premier League (MPL), a popular gaming platform....
A new privacy report ranking the top 15 social media platforms found Reddit and Snapchat as the least intrusive on their users' privacy. At the other end of the spectrum were Meta products Facebook, Messenger and Instagram The ranking performed by data removal service Incogni was based on 14 criteria across five key categories: transgressions, data...
The 2024 holiday shopping season won't be the best for retailers. Not only is the Thanksgiving to Christmas window narrower than usual, but market watchers are predicting limp sales growth for the period Salesforce, for example, predicts year-over-year global sales growth of 2% for November and December, totaling US$1.19 trillion, and 2% growth in ...
Touting a product's AI capabilities may sound like a good idea to marketers, but it's a buzzkill for many consumers A recent study by assistant professor Mesut Cicek and professor Dogan Gursoy at the Carson School of Business at Washington State University found that people were less likely to buy things if they were called "Artificial Intelligence...
While the technology behind AI-powered chatbots quickly captured the public imagination, an even more powerful application of generative artificial intelligence has been creating a buzz among business leaders. It's called agentic AI "This innovative technology is not just another industry buzzword; it's a paradigm shift that's poised to redefine th...
Inflation is causing many consumers to pass on upgrading to a new cell phone this year, according to a survey conducted by an online personal finance platform The survey of more than 210 respondents, using data normalized by age, gender, and income so the sample would reflect U.S. demographics, found that nearly two in three Americans (63%) said th...
Apple's flavor of generative artificial intelligence, called Apple Intelligence, was laced throughout its latest watch, AirPods, and phone offerings, announced at its "Glowtime" event on Monday Speakers at the prerecorded session aired online touted a number of features in the new hardware lineup, which uses Apple Intelligence to support everything...
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