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Apple’s Vision Pro and the coming healthcare revolution
Once upon a time, a young doctor joined the surgical unit at a prestigious hospital as an anaesthesiologist. He was an Apple user, of course, wearing Vision Pro during surgical procedures, as it allowed him to monitor all the vital signs during operations. This is not a fairy story. It is a prediction based on…
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Tech spending shifts to meet AI demand, forces a ‘reshuffling of skills’ for workers
Tech companies such Google, Amazon, Meta (Facebook) and others laid off tens of thousands of workers last year as an adjustment to over-hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the firings have not abated in 2024. In January, job cuts leaped 136% over December and hit a 10-month high, according to a new report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.…
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Digital work apps arrive for Apple’s Vision Pro
Among the hundreds of native apps already available for Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, there’s already a range of tools focused on getting work done. Microsoft, Cisco, and Zoom are among the software vendors that have already optimized their enterprise apps to function on Apple’s spatial computing device. They make use of the Vision Pro’s…
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Meetings are about to get weird
Apple Vision Pro just shipped. Reviewers say the technology inside is magnificent and unprecedented, but the experience of using it still flawed. But by the end of the year, some 400,000 units could well be operating in the wild. Apple’s new headset this year will be dismissed by many as too expensive, hot, heavy and…
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Google throws down the gauntlet with Gemini — its multimodal genAI engine
Google on Thursday announced it has reconstructed and renamed its Bard chatbot — now called Gemini — to offer enterprises and consumers the industry’s first multimodal generative AI (genAI) platform that no longer relies only on text to provide human-like responses. The release of Gemini represents a direct challenge to Microsoft’s Copilot, which is based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and every other…