WEB DESK, July 18(ABC): Apple’s new iPad multitasking system, Stage Manager, does not replace the need for a true Mac-like interface and the experience is overcomplicated and perplexing, Bloomberg reported. The Starters Today’s iPad Pro costs nearly as much as a Mac, connects to an advanced and powerful keyboard and trackpad, and is powered by the same chip as Apple Inc.’s …

WEB DESK, July 18(ABC): The National Information Technology Board (NITB) has issued a cyber alert, warning internet users to refrain from entering certain links. The technology board, in a statement on Twitter, said that users should “beware” of phishing sites as they might contain malicious material. “It is advised to beware from sites attracting users for giveaways and from opening …

WEB DESK, July 18(ABC): The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel. But they’re not so good — and sometimes dangerously bad — at handling other seemingly straightforward tasks. Take, for instance, GPT-3, a Microsoft-controlled system that …

WEB DESK, July 18(ABC): Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they’ll grow better in zero gravity. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are trying to find new ways to produce huge batches of a type of stem cell that can generate nearly any other type of cell in …

CALIFORNIA, July 8(ABC): Meta Platforms Inc is modifying how users log onto its virtual reality headsets, backtracking on an earlier change to require accounts from the company’s flagship Facebook app on the devices while preserving links to social connections there. The company will roll out its new “Meta accounts” starting in August, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook …

WEB DESK, July 8(ABC): According to a study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour by researchers at the University of Chicago, a newly- developed algorithm has the ability to predict crimes a week prior to their occurrence with 90% accuracy. Algorithms predict the weather, music taste, and whatnot. This new study, however, opens doors to a new room of possibilities …

WEB DESK, July 8(ABC): TikTok recently announced that they will allow people to ban users under 18 from viewing their live streams. However, they are currently testing the new setting with specific users. The aim of the new setting is to hide content from children that may be aimed toward an adult audience or might be boring for them. Still, …

    KARACHI, July 7(ABC): The exponential growth of Artificial Intelligence will help identify patients at a high risk of cancer even without symptoms and deliver better and less aggressive treatment options and improve survival rates. This was shared at a seminar organized by the Institute of Medical Technology, Jinnah Sindh Medical University on the ‘Emerging Trends in Breast Cancer’ …

  WEB DESK, July 7(ABC): Meta’s new AI model can translate 200 different languages, including many that are not supported by present translation systems, reported. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling it “one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.” The tech giant aims to leave no language behind and wishes to enable over 25 billion translations across Meta’s apps daily via No Language Left …

WEB DESK, July 7(ABC): Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania say a “robotic microswarm” may soon act as a toothbrush, rinse and dental floss. In this startling new study, scientists used a magnetic field consisting of iron oxide nanoparticles that produce catalytic and magnetic reactions. By doing so, researchers were able to form bristle-like structures of a toothbrush or thin, …