Neda ‘strongly advocating’ Open Access bill’s passage

SOCIOECONOMIC Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan said the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) is “strongly advocating” for the passage of the Open Access bill as this will allow the

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Google says its emissions have grown nearly 50% due to AI data center boom — and here's what it plans to do about it

Google’s ambitious plan to curb its emissions is at risk after the tech giant revealed it had experienced a 48% increase in greenhouse gas emissions over the past five years.The

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AI expert and film vet lead new Seattle startup aiming to help artists accelerate production

LeyLine CEO and co-founder Yinhan Liu. (Madrona Photo)

Yinhan Liu, a natural language processing expert who sold a startup earlier this year, is setting off on another

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The Download: listening robots, and Google’s AI emissions

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

A way to let robots

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Google’s self-driving cars might finally change my life

The Waymo One robotaxi service just removed its San Francisco waitlist—a meaningful step on the road to autonomous-vehicle normalcy.

Not to humblebrag—okay, maybe just a little—but I first rode

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How AI is transforming digital marketing: 2024 trends and insights

Discover how AI is revolutionising digital marketing with success stories and key strategies. Learn about personalisation, predictive analytics, content creation, and more.

The rapid evolution of AI

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iPhone 16 tipped to match the iPhone 16 Pro's chip, but could miss out on OLED screen boost

For the last couple of years, Apple has differentiated its Pro-level iPhones from their non-Pro siblings by only including its latest chips in the top-end devices. The regular iPhones, meanwhile,

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Meta ordered to stop training its AI on Brazilian personal data

Brazilian regulators say Meta’s “excessive and unjustified obstacles” make it difficult for users to opt out of AI training. | Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge

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A way to let robots learn by listening will make them more useful

Most AI-powered robots today use cameras to understand their surroundings and learn new tasks, but it’s becoming easier to train robots with sound too, helping them adapt to tasks and

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This art project is like a Rorschach test for AI

Hugues Bruyère shows how human-machine collaboration can produce wondrous things.
I’ve spent the last hour glued to the screen, mesmerized by the art of Hugues Bruyère. I kept looking at

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DJI officially makes a surprise leap into e-bikes – here's what you need to know

So the rumors were true – DJI has revealed that it’s officially getting into e-bikes by supplying what it calls a “ground-breaking e-bike drive system” for a new electric mountain bike

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Large language model evaluation: The better together approach

With the GenAI era upon us, the use of large language models (LLMs) has grown exponentially. However, as with any technology in its hype cycle, GenAI practitioners run the risk

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