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About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects people’s privacy, agency, and focus; benefits society; and restores nature. I argued that we need to overcome the inconveniences that prevent us from acting ethically and that we need to elevate design ethics to a more practical level by structurally integrating it into our daily work, processes, and tools. Article Continues Below Unfortunately, we’re still very far from this ideal. At the time, I didn’t know…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better? For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice was so common that it gained the pejorative moniker “Dr. Google.” But times are changing, and many medical-information seekers are now using LLMs. According to OpenAI, 230 million people ask ChatGPT health-related queries each week. That’s the context around the launch of OpenAI’s…
Summary created by Smart Answers AIIn summary:Tech Advisor reports that Darth Maul returns in the new animated series “Maul: Shadow Lord,” premiering this spring on streaming platforms.The series bridges the gap between “The Clone Wars” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” following Maul’s attempts to rebuild his criminal syndicate on planet Janix.Sam Witwer reprises Maul alongside new cast members including Wagner Moura as detective Captain Brander Lawson and Gideon Adlon as Maul’s Twi’lek apprentice Devon Izara. If you watched Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as a child, you’ll certainly remember the thrill of fear when Darth Maul – the sinister…
Press Release Open Cosmos, the company building satellites to understand and connect the world, has today launched the first satellites in its new proprietary low-Earth-orbit (LEO) telecom constellation, just one week after securing high-priority Ka-band spectrum. The two satellites, launched by Rocket Lab from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand on its Electron rocket for the mission named ‘The Cosmos Will See You Now’, represent the first activation phase of Open Cosmos’ future-ready satellite network – a programme designed to deliver scalable, resilient and coordinated space-based services for Europe and the world. Lift-off took place as scheduled at 10:52 (GMT) / 11:52 (CET) /…
As AI technologies advance, truly helpful agents will become capable of better anticipating user needs. For experiences on mobile devices to be truly helpful, the underlying models need to understand what the user is doing (or trying to do) when users interact with them. Once current and previous tasks are understood, the model has more context to predict potential next actions. For example, if a user previously searched for music festivals across Europe and is now looking for a flight to London, the agent could offer to find festivals in London on those specific dates.Large multimodal LLMs are already quite…
I have spent the last several years watching enterprise collaboration tools get smarter. Join a video call today, and there’s a good chance five or six AI agents are running simultaneously: transcription, speaker identification, captions, summarization, task extraction. On the product side of it, each agent gets evaluated in isolation. Separate dashboards, separate metrics. Transcription accuracy? Check. Response latency? Check. Error rates? All green. But here is what I consistently observe as a UX Researcher: users are frustrated, adoption stalls, and teams are trying to identify the root cause. Per the metrics, the dashboards look fine. Every individual component passes…
China’s cloud market is entering a new phase, shaped less by basic storage and more by who can support large AI workloads at scale. Established providers still dominate, but the list of serious contenders is starting to change. ByteDance, long tied to consumer apps like TikTok and Douyin, is now making a clearer push into enterprise AI infrastructure.Reporting by the Financial Times shows that ByteDance is expanding Volcano Engine, its cloud unit, with enterprise customers in mind. The effort is not centred on consumer-facing features. Instead, the company is putting money into its own AI models and computing capacity built…
With UK businesses facing volatile energy prices, ever-tightening sustainability targets and increasing regulatory pressure, energy wastage is no longer just a technical issue and it’s one that deserves C-suite level investment. Thankfully, making energy sustainability decisions has been made infinitely easier in recent years thanks to the introduction of smart metres that offer real-time visibility of consumption across electricity, gas and even water. This turns previously opaque overheads into actionable data. Rather than relying on manual reads and spreadsheet-driven assumptions, modern smart metering and monitoring platforms give a continuous, granular picture of what’s being used, where and when. Real-time insights…
Is your construction ERP still living in the past? For decades, construction ERP (enterprise-resource planning) systems served a clear purpose: managing financials and project controls. But as commercial contractors scale operations across multiple entities and projects, a new challenge has emerged. The documents, workflows, and approvals that drive daily execution have become just as critical as the financial data itself. The most significant shift in modern construction ERP isn’t happening in accounting modules or cost controls. It’s occurring in how these platforms handle content management, and it’s fundamentally changing how large contractors operate. Beyond Invoice Routing Most construction professionals recognize…
Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityI wouldn’t say I’m a photography purist (I shoot with a Fuji after all), but one thing that continues to draw me to using my mirrorless over all but the very best smartphone cameras is a more natural look to my pictures.It’s not that smartphones are bad by any stretch of the imagination; some smartphone cameras are absolutely brilliant. But take a closer look, and even the best handsets leave telltale signs of overprocessing; whether it’s oversharpened skin textures from the Pixel’s portrait mode or overly dark shadows in Apple’s HDR algorithm.You don’t have to take…