Dr Adam Rodman, an expert in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, confidently expected that chatbots built to use artificial intelligence would help doctors diagnose illnesses. He was wrong. Instead, in a study Rodman helped design, doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did only slightly better than doctors…

The Black Friday fever is over, but there are still some great Black Friday deals you can snag on Apple's MacBooks before Cyber Monday kicks off tomorrow (December 2nd). These days, most of the best Black Friday laptop deals last until the end of Cyber Monday. We don't predict this year to be any different. I cover laptops for…

The Cyber Monday deals are right around the corner, and even though Black Friday is in the rearview, most of the biggest deals on tech are still live, with the sales still in full swing. That's because retailers know this is the most popular time of year to shop, so they're going to keep as many deals…

OnePlus rolled out OxygenOS 15 stable update for the OnePlus 12 smartphone earlier this month. Now it has released a new OxygenOS 15 update version CPH2573_15.0.0.305 that brings the AI features that were promised when the OxygenOS 15 was launched. These AI features include AI Retouch with clarity enhancement, unblur and reflection removal in photos…

With Thanksgiving now here and December fast approaching, Samsung is still rolling out its critical November security update to millions of phones. Today is also the deadline set by the US cyber defense agency to install that update on your phone. Per SamMobile, “the November 2024 security update for Galaxy devices hasn't had the smoothest…

Black Friday has been a rich source of price cuts this year, and for the Google Pixel phone, those cuts are suddenly deeper than ever. I’ve reported already about how Amazon and Best Buy had better prices than going to Google itself, and now one model of the Pixel family, the Pixel 9 Pro XL,…

Samsung has slashed the price of the Galaxy S24 Ultra (again) in one of its best deals yet. The company’s new Black Friday offer knocks a huge £250 ($316.72) off the flagship handset until December 3rd. If you were patient and disciplined enough to resist Samsung’s repeated discounts in the lead-up…

In a sense, each of us begins life ready for action. Many animals perform amazing feats soon after they're born. Spiders spin webs. Whales swim. But where do these innate abilities come from? Obviously, the brain plays a key role as it contains the trillions of neural connections needed to control complex behaviors. However,…

showcased a groundbreaking generative AI  model named Fugatto. This model is designed as a versatile tool for creating and modifying sounds using text and audio prompts. Fugatto can generate and transform a mix of music, voices, and soundscapes, offering unprecedented capabilities to musicians, developers, and content creators. Fugatto, short for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer…

Anthropic has released a new open-source tool to connect AI assistants directly to the information they need to inform their responses or carry out tasks.  The new Model Context Protocol  (MCP) provides a universal connection to all sorts of data sources, which Anthropic says will improve performance. Earlier this month, OpenAI started testing a new…