Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

If electric vehicles are going to start crowding gasoline burners off America's roads, not only will its charging infrastructure need a big boost, but so will the software at its charging stations "Software has a very important role to play in improving the ownership and charging experience for EVs," said Edward Sanchez, a senior analyst in the aut...

Ten technologies that need to be on every company's radar were identified Tuesday in a trends report released by global technology research company Forrester The 30-page report identified four technologies expected to deliver benefits in the short term to companies, four predicted to deliver benefits in the medium term, and two that will deliver be...

If a company wants to send customers to a competitor, serving up a negative online experience is a good way to do it, according to survey results released Monday by a quality testing company In a study of 500 U.S. consumers, Sauce Labs discovered more than 50% of them say they'll bolt to the competition if they have from three to four negative onli...

Microsoft aims to boost the PC market with artificial intelligence and Windows 11, but a collateral consequence of those moves could be an early trip to a landfill for many computers "Windows 11 itself does not directly contribute to e-waste," said Kieren Jessop, an analyst with Canalys, a global market research company. "However, due to its hardwa...

Websites posing as local news outlets funded by partisan groups have surged past the number of sites of independent daily newspapers on the internet, according to a report released Tuesday by a disinformation watchdog According to NewsGuard Technologies, a company that evaluates and rates the trustworthiness of news and information websites, the nu...

"Apple Intelligence," the company's answer to the likes of Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, didn't exhibit many tricks not already seen on those other platforms, but it did excel in two areas: integration and privacy The technology, announced in a prerecorded presentation Monday at Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference, largely taps i...

Intel raised the curtain Tuesday on some new tech it's banking will recoup some lost ground to its chip-making rivals At the annual Computex expo in Taiwan, the company announced a new generation of processors for data centers, pricing on its AI accelerator kits, and the architecture for an AI PC chip....

An effective approach to children’s online safety needs to strike a balance between protecting kids' user privacy and free speech, as well as distributing responsibility to the government, online services, and parents, according to a report released Monday by a Washington, D.C. technology think tank No amount of regulation will completely eradica...

Google announced on Tuesday that it's joining the AI laptop party by baking new smart features into its new generation of Chromebook Plus computers The new features include "Help Me Write," AI-generated videoconferencing backgrounds, Magic Editor for photos, and direct access to Google's gen AI agent Gemini directly from a Chromebook's home screen....

How should policymakers handle the many concerns raised by the introduction of artificial intelligence into society? The Center for Data Innovation (CDI) has some answers to that question in a report it released Monday The 56-page document focuses on more than two dozen concerns raised by AI, each accompanied by a description of the issue along wit...

Website impersonation scams have become a growing problem, although many businesses aren't happy with the tools they have to address them A study released Tuesday by digital risk protection solutions company Memcyco found that nearly three-quarters of businesses have deployed a digital impersonation protection solution to avert online scams, but on...

Cat-phishing, using a popular Microsoft file transfer tool to become a network parasite, and bogus invoicing are among the notable techniques cybercriminals deployed during the first three months of this year, according to the quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report released Thursday Based on an analysis of data from millions of endpoints...

Google's dabbling with enhancing its search results with artificial intelligence could have dire consequences for anyone with a business that depends on Alphabet's best-known subsidiary for web traffic Anyone who's done a Google search knows it's already stuffing AI summaries into its search results, but it will be upping its ante in AI when a prog...

Apple beefed up its iPad product line Tuesday by upgrading the silicon in its Air models and introducing a new processor, the M4, into its Pro editions, which also got a display boost to OLED "The iPad Pro with the M4 and outdoor viewable OLED screen is arguably the best tablet created so far," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Ende...

Since ChatGPT arrived on the net in 2022, AI-generated content has soared more than 8,000%, according to a study released Tuesday by Copyleaks. The study, which covers a period from 2013 to March 2024, found a surge of 8,362% in AI content on the internet from November 2022, when ChatGPT-3.5 was released, to March 2024 When OpenAI released ChatGPT-...

Artificial intelligence is forcing many companies to evolve and rethink how to govern and analyze data, according to survey results released Monday by Gartner Based on a survey of 479 chief data and analytics officers, chief data officers, and chief analytics officers worldwide, the results revealed that 61% of organizations are reevaluating their ...

Brute force cracking of passwords takes longer now than in the past, but the good news is not a cause for celebration, according to the latest annual audit of password cracking times released Tuesday by Hive Systems Depending on the length of the password and its composition -- the mix of numbers, letters, and special characters -- a password can b...

Nearly two dozen dating apps were flagged by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included researchers Tuesday as failing to meet privacy and security standards, sharing customer data with third parties, and excluding the right of a user to wipe their data from the app According to Mozilla, financial pressures are forcing the owners of the apps to change leadersh...

While the major generative AI service providers depend on the cloud to power their large language models, Apple will be taking a different tack with the next version of its mobile operating system, which is set to be revealed in June Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, in his weekly newsletter published Sunday, predicted that the AI features planned for iOS 1...

Google joined the ranks of fellow cloud service providers Amazon and Microsoft on Tuesday with the announcement of custom silicon for its data centers Google's Axion line of processors represents its first Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center. "Axion delivers industry-leading performance and energy efficiency and will be available to Google ...