<!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The OnePlus 12 typically sells for a starting price of $799, but it’s on sale for $250 off ahead of Black Friday. It’s the company’s most complete handset to date, with the fastest charging speeds on the market (both wired and wireless), a flagship camera system, premium build quality, and reliable […] More
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Jim Zemlin: “You must be genuinely helpful to developers. We’re the janitors of open source.” AndreyPopov/Getty Images NAPA, Calif. — Some people love The Linux Foundation. Others hate it. Some folks see the organization as leading open-source projects into the future, while others resent it because of its corporate connections. What everyone agrees on, though, […] More
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Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images NAPA, Calif. – At the Linux Foundation Member Summit, Linux Foundation Research announced a new report that dives deep into the sometimes awkward relationship between open source and artificial intelligence (AI). Called “Shaping the Future of Generative AI,” the report — produced by Linux Foundation AI & Data and the Cloud Native […] More
Getty Images/Tetiana Musiyaka I’ve had several instances where I needed to add a PDF document to the end of another. You might think that’s as simple as opening both files in a PDF editor and copying the second into the first. However, it’s not that easy. Remember, PDF files are complex documents composed of several […] More
imaginima/Getty Images Joining a new social network in 2024 is an odd, lonely, quiet experience. By now, most social networkers have established communities online. But if those communities were on Twitter (now known as X), they may have died off. We follow, and are followed by, a relatively large number of people on Facebook and […] More
Artie Beaty/ZDNETYou probably didn’t know it, but if you played or are still playing Pokémon Go (there are more than half a million active players), you were helping train an AI-powered geospatial model that aims to map the world.A blog post from Niantic, the software developer behind the popular game, explains how it’s working on “a large geospatial model to achieve spatial intelligence” and trying to build a “visual positioning system” to understand the world around us — and it’s using data from Pokémon Go.Also: AI transformation is the new digital transformation. Here’s why that change mattersTo clarify, Niantic is saying that just like data on the web trains AI models, the AI model it’s building needs to understand 3D spaces. An immense amount of data and photographs of 3D spaces are available thanks to Pokémon Go players creeping around the world. Niantic explains it like this: A local AI mapping model might understand that a church stands at a specific place, but it’s likely only seen the front of that location and can’t explain what the rest of the church looks like. With data from Pokémon Go players, who have likely walked around many churches and trekked areas that cars can’t reach (and photographed those areas), the AI, now has a good guess at what a church generally looks like.Also: Traveling for the holidays? Google Maps uncovers ‘hidden gems’ to add to your route nowThe company also pointed out that it recently rolled out a new feature for the game called Pokémon Playground that lets you place a creature at a certain real-world spot for others to see. This means that placing the character and viewing it later conveniently involves using your camera, taking images from multiple angles, and sending the resulting image to Niantic. More
