The Bose Soundlink Max looks like an unassuming speaker, but it delivers in all the right areas. Jack Wallen/ZDNETZDNET’s key takeawaysThe Bose Soundlink Max More
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETZDNET’s key takeawaysThe Chipolo One Point and Card Point are available starting at $28. More
onurdongel/Getty Images New research from Slack’s Workforce Lab suggests increasing numbers of workers use artificial intelligence (AI) to boost productivity. However, while some staff embrace AI, other employees risk being left behind. The survey reports AI use among desk workers has increased 23% since January 2024 and 60% since September 2023. The research found that 81% of workers […] More
<!–> It has been a year and a half since OpenAI introduced its most recent “foundation” large language model (LLM), GPT-4, and the rumor mill has been in high gear the past month with speculation on when a next-generation model will appear. Appearing at a business conference this week, the lead executive for OpenAI’s Japan […] More
Jaque Silva/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images If you’re a college student with a school email address, Perplexity is offering you a free month of its Perplexity Pro AI tool — and you have the chance to earn an entire year for free. The company says from Sept. 3 to Sept. 15 college students with an […] More
Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETGoogle is rolling out ChromeOS 128 to all supported Chromebooks, introducing new features and several quality-of-life changes. One of the more notable updates is Snap Groups, which behaves very similarly to Snap Layouts on Windows 11. It lets users pair two separate windows on ChromeOS together for a split-screen view. These windows can be individually resized, moved together as a group, or split apart at any time.Also: The best Chromebook for students: Expert testedSecond, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is being implemented into the Camera app. With OCR, Chromebooks can “see” text from a piece of paper in front of the lens. The feature also supports searching for words in images, reading documents out loud, and more. Everything in OCR is made possible through the power of machine learning. More
Roku Roku just announced a new feature called “Backdrops,” which transforms your TV into a canvas. Like on the popular Frame TV from Samsung and other alternatives, this free feature will showcase artwork and photography while the set is not actively showing content. Roku says the catalog will include thousands of curated works, including famous classics, […] More
This city of the future hosts OpenInfra Summit Asia. sjvn/ZDNETSuwon, South Korea: Quite discreetly, the OpenInfra Foundation and the open-source projects it promotes (such as OpenStack, and the Kata Containers, virtual machines (VM) as containers) are changing the world. That became clear to everyone who attended OpenInfra Summit Asia. OpenStack has long been the top telecom cloud service. You’ll never see it as a user, but OpenStack oversees your connection and services almost every time you use 5G on your smartphone with almost every carrier. Also: Google’s Gems are a gentle introduction to AI prompt engineeringOpenStack is expanding well beyond the telecoms now, though. The cloud operating system has seen a resurgence in interest and adoption over the past year. Mark Collier, OpenStack’s COO told me in an interview, “We’ve just seen this huge kind of resurgence of interest, and more people coming out, talking publicly about what they’re doing with OpenStack.”Several factors drive this renewed enthusiasm.First, companies are switching from public hyper-clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud, to private clouds. As Younghold Han, Hyundai’s VP of car cloud, said in an interview, “There are several reasons why we are using an OpenStack private cloud, hCloud. First, there’s data security. Let’s remember that a few weeks ago, Azure had a major security failure. We want to control our security. And finally, there’s cost. So before Hyundai, I worked in Samsung’s mobile business unit. We launched multiple services for our users that ran on AWS, and you cannot imagine how the costs grew exponentially. So we built out our private cloud.”The savings can be considerable. Collier said, “We had one user tell us it was 90% cheaper to build and operate their own OpenStack cloud. Of course, not everyone’s going to get that big of a savings, but it can be big.” Also: The best cloud hosting services for 2024Samsung and Hyundai aren’t the only ones moving to private clouds. Michael Dell, Dell CEO, quoted Barclay’s CIO Survey 2024: “83% of enterprises plan to move workloads back to private cloud from public cloud.” More
