Please be infinitely accurate, Comcast. These things happen. more Technically Incorrect Yes, all too often they happen at very awkward times. But we’ve allowed ourselves to be at the mercy of technology these days, so who are we to complain. There I was on a recent Friday afternoon, writing several things and watching something on […]

Tech specs: Panel type: LED | Refresh rate: 60Hz | HDR: Dolby Vision | Audio: DTS Virtual X | Resolution: 4K If you’re working with a smaller budget when shopping for a new 65-inch TV, the Hisense A6 is an excellent choice. It retails under $500 but still offers almost all of the features you’ve […]

You may have noticed that last week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced they had trained “the world’s largest and most powerful generative language model,” known as “Megatron-Turing NLG 530B,” as ZDNet’s Chris Duckett reported.  The model, in this case, is a neural network program based on the “Transformer” approach that has become widely popular in deep […]

The state of artificial intelligence is promising, and it is increasingly ready for real-life enterprises. But there are shortages of talent, lack of diversity in the field, and concerns about the handling the data that fuels ever-more-sophisticated algorithms.  Photo: Joe McKendrick These are some of the observations of Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth, prominent investors […]

Fit for purpose?  Screenshot by ZDNet Hope is fighting its way through the dark clouds. more Technically Incorrect A few weeks ago, the US finally loosened travel restrictions on those overseas and vaccinated. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby claims he can foresee normality blooming by January of next year. So business travel might truly begin […]

Low-code and no-code has something for everyone — for both non-tech users as well as experienced developers. But the movement toward low-code may be more slow-mo that originally hoped. “The applications that a business unit can solve without the need for IT professionals are general and recurring problems, which are already well modeled and solved […]

Video conferencing is here to stay, so you definitely want to create an impressive presence every time you use your webcam. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could always have an extra screen available to refer to? Especially if it could also be hooked up to your phone for better entertainment viewing?  Take a […]

A former sales representative of a mobile carrier has been sentenced after accepting bribes to perform SIM-swapping attacks.  This week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Stephen Defiore, a Florida resident, accepted “multiple bribes” of up to $500 per day to perform the switches required to reroute phone numbers in SIM-swapping.  SIM-swapping is […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a vexed term. Most people in the world have probably heard it said or used it themselves, but they have no idea what it means. And no wonder: Its original formulation was as a placeholder, a way for researcher John McCarthy to get a grant proposal together.  Even though AI is […]

Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have detailed how cyber criminals have been using FiveSys, a rootkit that somehow made its way through the driver certification process to be digitally signed by Microsoft.   The valid signature enables the rootkit – malicious software that allows cyber criminals to access and control infected computers – to appear valid and bypass operating systems […]