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DOJ suit over Apple iPhone cites failures of Amazon Fire Phone and Microsoft Windows Phone

GeekWire

That’s due in part to repeated references and comparisons in the suit to the DOJ’s prior antitrust case against Microsoft over its Windows monopoly in the late 1990s. Barriers are so high that Google is a distant third to Apple and Samsung despite the fact that Google controls development of the Android operating system.

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PUBG’s developer is suing Apple, Google, and the developer of lucrative PUBG lookalike Free Fire

The Verge

PUBG -maker Krafton filed a big lawsuit Monday : it’s suing the developer of two mobile games that it accuses of copying PUBG: Battlegrounds , the hit PC battle royale shooter, and it’s suing Apple and Google for distributing those games on their app stores. PUBG-maker Krafton filed a big lawsuit Monday. Image: Krafton. Image: Krafton.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

A transformer is a type of AI deep learning model that was first introduced by Google in a research paper in 2017. ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). It’s only one example of generative AI.

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BMW’s actually making the futuristic CE 04 electric scooter

The Verge

The CE 04 broke cover as a concept scooter in November 2020 , though that itself was basically just a reimagining of another concept that BMW debuted in 2017. What’s really striking about the images BMW released Wednesday is how similar the production version looks.

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Fusion cuisine: Zap Energy fires up BBQ grill built to look like one of its high-tech, superheated devices

GeekWire

Zap Energy Photo) Zap was launched in 2017 by Nelson and fellow University of Washington professor Uri Shumlak , with technology developed in collaboration with researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ” Zap Energy’s FuZE, its third generation Z-pinch device for creating fusion.

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Samsung is infusing Bixby with AI superpowers for a revival

Dataconomy

Samsung is considering enhancing Bixby with generative AI capabilities, a development confirmed by a senior Samsung official in an interview with CNBC last month. Introduced in 2017 alongside the Samsung Galaxy S8 , Bixby was equipped with various capabilities, including performing live translations and suggesting dining spots.

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Toyota transforms IT service desk with gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

He’s also a big believer in the agile DevOps concept of “shifting left” when it comes to technology — performing testing and evaluation early in the development process, generally before code is written — and “shifting right” when it concerns talent, where his vision for eliminating Toyota’s service desk is an example.