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00:00 – Mishaal Rahman: Android Auto may soon let you place widgets on your car’s dashboard.00:03 – C. Scott Brown: And Android 17 could let you use Google Maps on your phone’s always on display.00:08 – Mishaal Rahman: I’m Mishaal Rahman.00:09 – C. Scott Brown: And I’m C. Scott Brown, and this is the Authority Insights Podcast where we break down the latest news and leaks surrounding the Android operating system.00:18 – Mishaal Rahman: So, we recently found evidence that Google is working on a major expansion to the Android Auto dashboard experience. The company might let you soon add…

Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by Apple, "The Illusion of Thinking" Apple argues that LRMs must not be able to think; instead, they just perform pattern-matching. The evidence they provided is that LRMs with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning are unable to carry on the calculation using a predefined algorithm as the problem grows.This is a fundamentally flawed argument. If you ask a human who already knows the algorithm for solving the Tower-of-Hanoi problem to solve a Tower-of-Hanoi…

Home » Artificial intelligence » Tesla Robotaxi Will Be As Big or Bigger Than Waymo at the End of 2025 Elon said 1000 cars in the Bay area by the end of the year and 500 cars in austin by the end of the year. Tesla will likely have 100-200 cars in 8 other cities. They will likely be as big or bigger than Waymo which has about 1500 cars. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many…

I’ve been a Londoner all my life; born and bred in good ol’ Walthamstow in the East End of the city, I’ve lived and breathed London life for the past 33 years. But with house prices going through the roof – and possibly past the exosphere, deep into space – I’ve had to leave The Old Smoke behind and head deeper into leafy Essex. And one thing has become clear to me in the months since moving here: cellular connectivity is pretty rubbish once you get out of big cities and population centres.  I mean, I always knew that, but…

Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that allows its Claude AI assistant to take control of users' web browsers, marking the company's entry into an increasingly crowded and potentially risky arena where artificial intelligence systems can directly manipulate computer interfaces.The San Francisco-based AI company announced Tuesday that it would pilot "Claude for Chrome" with 1,000 trusted users on its premium Max plan, positioning the limited rollout as a research preview designed to address significant security vulnerabilities before wider deployment. The cautious approach contrasts sharply with more aggressive moves by competitors OpenAI and Microsoft, who have already released similar…

Something I’ve noticed is that some PC owners — and Mac owners, for that matter — are hesitant to adopt new tech on their computer. This makes a certain amount of sense, since many people use their PCs for work and other critical tasks, and the last anything anyone wants to do is interfere with their workflow for a change that might not be an improvement at all. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, in other words. That explains why so many machines are still on Windows 10, despite a looming support shutdown and the availability of free upgrades…

Researchers at Mila have proposed a new technique that makes large language models (LLMs) vastly more efficient when performing complex reasoning. Called Markovian Thinking, the approach allows LLMs to engage in lengthy reasoning without incurring the prohibitive computational costs that currently limit such tasks.The team’s implementation, an environment named Delethink, structures the reasoning chain into fixed-size chunks, breaking the scaling problem that plagues very long LLM responses. Initial estimates show that for a 1.5B parameter model, this method can cut the costs of training by more than two-thirds compared to standard approaches.The quadratic curse of long-chain reasoningFor an LLM to…

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Taylor Hill / Getty ; Noam Galai / Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards Billie Eilish may be soft-spoken, but she doesn’t shy away from speaking her mind. On Wednesday evening in New York City, the Grammy-winning artist accepted the Music Innovator Award at WSJ Magazine‘s Innovator Awards ceremony — and took the opportunity to ruffle rich people’s feathers during her acceptance speech. “We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need empathy and help more than, kind of, ever, especially in…

Enlarge Image I especially dig the Sportage’s new boomerang-shaped LED light signature. Antuan Goodwin/CNETThe latest iteration of the Kia Sportage  gets a major glow-up. Kia has been aggressively pushing the design of its vehicles to the point that this muscular 2023 Sportage Hybrid SX Prestige looks of a completely different lineage to the cute, small SUV it replaces. (Heck, it’s barely recognizable as a Kia’s .) And behind that wild styling is a sweet new hybrid powertrain, vastly improved cabin tech and the automaker’s latest driver-assistance technology. Like Head-turning, spacious design Smooth and efficient new hybrid system Excellent mix of…

Finding genuinely useful Android apps shouldn’t feel like a chore, but too often it does. Most mainstream tools either lock core features behind paywalls or push ads so hard that you end up frustrated, forcing you to either buy the app or uninstall it. Still, there are a few free apps that I genuinely find useful. I’ve been using them for quite some time now, and they’ve quietly become part of my daily routine without demanding constant attention or updates. These three apps stood out because they’re refreshingly straightforward. No lengthy tutorials, no premium tiers hiding the useful features, and…