Two mobile operating systems currently comprise nearly 100% of the global smartphone market. Building one is hard, and for most phone makers, there are better uses of resources, especially when Android is right there for the taking. While it’s a potential differentiator, these companies have largely opted to maintain Google’s mobile OS, customized by skins and…
Generative AI models aren’t actually humanlike. They have no intelligence or personality — they’re simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence. But like interns at a tyrannical workplace, they do follow instructions without complaint — including initial “system prompts” that prime the models with their basic qualities, and what they should…
Valve once imagined that every PC maker could have their own “Steam Machine,” a PC game console running the company’s Linux-based SteamOS. It took a decade for that dream to evolve into the company’s own internally developed Steam Deck gaming handheld, but the original dream isn’t dead. The company’s long said it plans to let…
21 hours ago By Aileen Moynagh, BBC News NI health reporter PA Dr Sarah Chetcuti, Dr Rhys Kelly and Dr Blanaid Canavan from Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry protesting outside Stormont on Thursday A junior doctor in Belfast says she is actively looking for a “get-out plan” because of “deteriorating” working conditions in Northern Ireland. Dr Edwina Hegarty…