Snowflake has announced new capabilities for its Horizon suite, a built-in set of composite standards and compliance features. Horizon, showcased in November last year, came with features such as data quality monitoring, data lineage UI, differential privacy policies, enhanced data classification, and other additional authorizations and certifications. The new updates to the suite, which were
Read MoreCloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake is adding more large language model (LLM) capabilities and services related to generative AI to its fully-managed AI service Cortex. Cortex, showcased last year in November and is part of the company’s AI Data Cloud platform, provides enterprises with the building blocks to use LLMs and AI without requiring expertise in managing complex
Read MoreChina’s Chang’e 6 ascender carrying lunar samples took off from the far side of the Moon on June 4th. | Image: China National Space Administration China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft lifted off from the lunar surface today, bringing with it the first samples taken from the far side of the Moon. Chang’e 6’s ascender launched from
Read MoreA rendering of Climeworks’ Generation 3 direct air capture plant. | Image: Climeworks The next generation of industrial plants to filter CO2 out of the air is on the way, and it’s getting closer to overcoming some of the biggest challenges of using this technology to fight climate change. Climeworks, one of the first startups
Read MorePhoto: David Pierce / The Verge The M2 iPad Air doesn’t come with the 10-core GPU that Apple originally advertised — it actually comes with a nine-core one. In a statement to 9to5Mac, an unnamed Apple spokesperson says it has updated its website “to correct the core count for the M2 iPad Air” but that
Read MoreCredit: Motorola Motorola is launching the 2024 version of its Motorola Edge handset. The Motorola Edge (2024) upgrades to a Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 processor. This year’s Edge will be available on June 20 for $549.99. When the Motorola Edge (2023) rolled out last year, it was a solid device with a palatable price of
Read MoreApple’s 13-inch iPad Pro is a testament to the power and efficiency of Apple Silicon, but WWDC has to address at least some of the shortcomings of iPadOS for those hardware upgrades to mean anything. 13-inch iPad Pro review As Apple shaves away every millimeter from the iPad, it gets closer to realizing the dream
Read MoreMacworld Sonos has been a beloved brand for years, especially among Apple fans. It’s easy to see why: from the slick product design to the thoughtful eco-friendly packaging, Sonos offers a very Apple-like experience. Their home speakers and sound bars have a very “it just works” quality that may not satisfy the kind of audio
Read MoreMacworld If you are concerned about your privacy and security online using a VPN could give you some reassurance. Apple provides various measures in macOS that make Macs more secure, but if you want to ensure that the connection between your Mac and the internet is protected, rather than the computer itself, you need a
Read MoreArtificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions are being adopted across every industry today. Quite often, these initiatives involve deploying ML models into operational settings where the model output ends up being a widget on the screens or a number on the reports that are put in front of hundreds, if not thousands, of
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority ChatGPT is facing an outage. ChatGPT, the popular AI service many people use for everyday tasks, is suffering from an outage. Many users report that they cannot access the service. They are unable to log in and send messages to the chatbot, and as a result, are also not
Read MoreAI is far past the point of being a new or emerging technology, especially in the world of digital marketing. A global survey in 2022 found that roughly 90% of marketers across 35 different countries use AI in some way in their digital marketing strategies. With so many free and low-cost tools available, replacing or
Read MoreA large hacker camp such as EMF 2024 always brings unexpected delights, and one of those could be found in the Null Sector cyberpunk zone: a fully functional Strowger mechanical telephone exchange. Better still, this wasn’t the huge array of racks we’ve come to expect from a mechanical exchange, but a single human-sized unit, maybe
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority After releasing the YouTube Music Extension for the Gemini Android app, Google has been spotted working on a Spotify Extension for Gemini. The Spotify extension could be similar in functionality to the YouTube Music extension. The Spotify extension is not currently live within Gemini but could launch soon. Google
Read MoreWhether it be ads or shoddy formatting, some web pages might not be that easy to decipher. Thankfully, there is a solution built right into Safari on your iPad. Reader Mode in Safari can help to simplify your reading experience. Whatever your reasons may be, something about a website just may not jibe with your
Read MoreThis is not the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus, but rather a Fallout edition of the original. (I used generative expand around the edge because the image was cropping poorly.) | Image: MSI Just three months after releasing its first gaming handheld PC to damning reviews — here’s mine — MSI is already announcing a
Read MoreGoogle is enabling support for dynamic spatial audio over Bluetooth LE Audio in Android 15. Dynamic spatial audio allows for the direction of sound to change based on the listener’s head movements. Head-tracked spatial audio is already supported over Bluetooth Classic Audio, but expanding support to LE Audio will make for an even more immersive
Read MoreImage: The Verge On Monday, Microsoft announced layoffs reportedly affecting around 1,000 employees. As reported previously by CNBC, the mixed reality department working on HoloLens 2 is one of the areas affected. Separately, Business Insider reported that Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering has also seen cuts of “hundreds” of employees. This round of layoffs
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A Ticketmaster data breach that allegedly includes details for 560 million accounts and another one affecting Santander have been linked to their accounts at Snowflake, a cloud storage provider. However, Snowflake says there’s no evidence its platform is at fault. A joint statement to that effect made
Read MoreAMD is reverting to a simpler, more traditional numbering scheme for its laptop processors, abandoning its recent complex “decoder ring” system. The new system for Ryzen AI laptop processors will use a three-digit model number to denote generation and SKU, aligning more closely with industry norms. Ars Technica reports: For its new Ryzen AI laptop
Read MoreLawmakers in New York have reached a tentative agreement to “prohibit social-media companies from using algorithms to steer content to children without parental consent (source paywalled; alternative source),” according to the Wall Street Journal. “The legislation is aimed at preventing social-media companies from serving automated feeds to minors. The bill, which is still being completed
Read MoreCredit: Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority Nothing dropped a few cryptic teasers hinting at a new product launch. Rumors suggest the device could be the CMF Phone 1, featuring a unique connector for accessories. A separate leak reveals the alleged full specifications of the CMF Phone 1. Rumors about the upcoming Nothing Phone 3 have
Read MoreWhile Samsung is offering some discounts on its top tablets this week, this Amazon deal has taken the sale to the next level. One colorway of the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus is subject to a massive $251 price drop right now, marking easily the lowest price we’ve ever tracked on the device. Samsung Galaxy Tab
Read MoreA vast majority of the election-related disinformation a South African watchdog group identified came from X, where Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla posted a fake video featuring a Donald Trump endorsement.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Samsung is preemptively suing Oura to prevent patent infringement lawsuits over its upcoming Galaxy Ring. The lawsuit alleges Oura has a history of suing competitors over common smart ring features, and Samsung expects to be targeted next. Samsung hopes to obtain a ruling from the court confirming that
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