Ford now offers fleet managers a virtual assistant that can perform tasks such as reporting on the condition of company vehicles and scheduling service. The new Ford Pro AI is available at no additional cost to Ford Pro Telematics subscribers in the United States, the...
Microsoft’s email blocking practices have reportedly drawn complaints from a host of internet users. As The Register reported Wednesday (March 4), the company spent last week rejecting messages to Outlook recipients in what the report characterized as either a fault or overzealous security rules. One...
Apple is reportedly expanding its car keys wallet feature with carmaker Toyota launching support for the tool. According to a report Tuesday (Feb. 17) from Apple-focused news website 9to5Mac, the tech giant had named 13 new carmakers who had signed on to add the car key feature soon. Now, Toyota has apparently...
A downturn in the software and technology sectors could have an impact that rivals that of the energy sector’s issues in 2016, Bloomberg reported Monday (Feb. 9), citing Deutsche Bank analysts. The analysts highlighted concentration risks to the speculative-grade credit market, saying that the software and tech sectors account...
Software as a service once promised a steady rhythm of recurring subscriptions, predictable upgrades and incremental productivity gains. That rhythm has been thrown off kilter as artificial intelligence begins to alter not just individual tasks but also the structure of business operations. The core operational...
The modern power grid works so well that most people never think about it. At least until it doesn’t. Lights turn on instantly, homes stay cool during heat waves and electric vehicles charge overnight, as if electricity were infinite. In reality, the system is under...
Shares in German tech giant SAP have reportedly seen their largest one-day loss since 2020. The decline came as the company rattled investors over the health of its cloud computing business, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (Jan. 29). This came after the company said...
Shares in technology company Oracle have fallen by more than 50% from last year’s record. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Jan. 29), the decline is happening as investors shed the stock over fears about the artificial intelligence (AI) market and the company’s ties to OpenAI....
Your phone has been hogging the spotlight for years. Now your jacket wants a speaking role, preferably mic’d up and artificial intelligence-assisted. Wearables have become a serious product category because they live where behavior happens: on your body. That makes them ideal for passive health...