All posts tagged "Informatique"

New York (AFP) - He was the face of cryptocurrency, and a young one at that -- a media darling seemingly destined to unite the sector. But the stunning rise of Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX platform would be matched by an equally spectacular fall, after it was revealed that billions of dollars of clients' funds had been moved and spent without their consent. A federal jury in New York has convicted Bankman-Fried of leading the fraudulent scheme, for which 31-year-old former tycoon now faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. Before it all came crashing down, the nati......

San Francisco (AFP) - California start-up OpenAI has released a chatbot capable of answering a variety of questions, but its impressive performance has reopened the debate on the risks linked to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The conversations with ChatGPT, posted on Twitter by fascinated users, show a kind of omniscient machine, capable of explaining scientific concepts and writing scenes for a play, university dissertations or even functional lines of computer code. "Its answer to the question 'what to do if someone has a heart attack' was incredibly clear and relevant," Claude d......

San Francisco (AFP) - Ten years after Apple founder Steve Jobs' death, the firm has grown into a colossus of devices and services that is the world's most valuable company, but the tech legend's diehard fans lament its lost aura of revolution.  "Apple doesn't innovate anymore" or "Steve Jobs is turning in his grave" are the type of disillusioned tweets that pop up especially during product launches led by Tim Cook, who took Apple's reins in August 2011.  On the surface, Jobs -- who died October 5, 2011 after a battle with pancreatic cancer -- left the company DNA imbued with his demanding inte......

San Francisco (AFP) - Microsoft said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years and which is now largely abandoned as people instead use competitors like Google's Chrome or Apple's Safari. "We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge," the company said in a blog post Wednesday, referring to its other browser. "Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility for older, legacy websites and applicati......