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Apple on Thursday disclosed its iPhone sales dipped slightly during the holiday-season quarter, signaling a sluggish start to the trendsetting company's effort to catch up to the rest of Big Tech in the race to bring artificial intelligence to the masses.... Read more

A recent study titled "Gaming on the Edge: Performance Issues of Distributed Online Gaming," published at the IFIP International Conference on Networking 2024, proposes an innovative model to enhance the experience of online gaming, particularly on mobile devices. Led by an international team of researchers—including Professors Marco Ajmone and Vincenzo... Read more

Even though digitalization is in full swing, most Norwegians are now ambivalent about life online, according to media researchers at the University of Oslo.... Read more

Johan Michalove is nearly 3,000 miles from the Los Angeles wildfires, but that didn't stop him from pitching in.... Read more

Wearable devices have become a big part of modern health care, helping track a patient's heart rate, stress levels and brain activity. These devices rely on electrodes, sensors that touch the skin to pick up electrical signals from the body.... Read more

A new study finds that prompts do a good job of getting drivers to engage with their environment and take over control of the vehicle when necessary while using partially automated driving systems—with one exception. If drivers are deeply distracted, these system-generated prompts have little or no effect. The paper... Read more

There has recently been a shift online from centralized platforms like X (formerly Twitter) to decentralized alternatives like Bluesky. In particular, many users unhappy with the politics and antics of X owner Elon Musk are moving to Bluesky.... Read more

People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, Facebook marketplace and other online storefronts—though it is not clear if there are many buyers at those prices.... Read more

As AI tools like ChatGPT become more mainstream in day-to-day tasks and decision-making processes, the ability to trust and decipher errors in their responses is critical. A new study by cognitive and computer scientists at the University of California, Irvine finds people generally overestimate the accuracy of large language model... Read more

A team of software engineers, AI specialists and programmers at Tsinghua University, working with TikTok parent company ByteDance, has announced the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) agent model called UI-TARS. The group announced its development and introduction to the world at large in a paper posted to the... Read more

Samsung is injecting another dose of artificial intelligence into its next lineup of Galaxy smartphones, escalating an effort to simplify people's lives while deepening their dependence on a device that accompanies them almost everywhere.... Read more

Roblox isn't just another video game—it's a massive virtual universe where nearly 90 million people from around the world create, play and socialize. This includes some 34 million children under 13 who spend an average of 2.6 hours daily on the platform, making Roblox one of the most influential digital... Read more

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems are rapidly transforming various sectors, a book by a multidisciplinary group of scholars offers a timely and critical examination of these technologies from a human-centered perspective. The open access book delves into the ethical, humane, and holistic aspects of AI... Read more

A leafless, lifeless tree is among the most striking new emojis coming to our smartphones in the coming weeks, as part of the latest batch being released by the Unicode Consortium, which sets the international standard for character encoding.... Read more

While the Australian book market was down 3% last year, genre fiction—popular on BookTok—was among the rare categories that grew.... Read more