Barry Collins
Host and Producer at The Internet Report
Senior Contributor at Forbes
Reporter and Editor at Freelance
Co-Editor at The Big Tech Question
Senior contributor for @Forbes, columnist/features editor for @PCPro, podcast host and producer for @thousandeyes and chair of @lewessupporters.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Barry Collins
The Vanguard website appears to be down in the U.K. this morning, as stock markets around the world continue to tumble. The Down Detector website has recorded a spike in Vanguard users reporting problems since around 8am GMT, the start of the working day for European customers. Attempts to log in to the investment platform are met with error messages, such as “Your request for this web page has been blocked" or “Sorry, we can’t find the page you’re looking for or something went wrong”.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Barry Collins
ChatGPT’s new image generator is going down a storm, and now it’s available to everyone for free. So, you might be on the lookout for ChatGPT image prompts that exploit the AI’s amazing new ability to reproduce text in images. By far the biggest improvement with the new image generator is the way it handles text. Fuzzy, unreadable text is now (largely) a thing of the past.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Barry Collins
If you notice a faceless stranger lurking in your online meetings, don’t be alarmed. Otter is launching a new voice-activated AI meeting agent that can sit in your meetings, answering questions and performing other tasks. The Meeting Agent is one of three new agents the company is launching, in addition to a Sales Agent that provides real-time coaching for human staff during customer calls, and an SDR Agent that can give customers live product demos without any human staff on the call.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Barry Collins
Razer is teaming up with Sam Altman’s controversial World ID to create a system designed to eradicate bots in online video games. The system will allow gamers to prove they are human by having their eyeball scanned or by producing government ID. The proliferation of bots in online games has been a problem for many years now, with games firms struggling to eradicate bots from their servers.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Barry Collins
Backblaze has issued a fix for a bzfileids.dat error message that was preventing the backup service from running properly on a Mac.
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I've selflessly been playing #civilizationvii on Mac for a couple of hours this morning to find out how it performs. The good news is, it performs very well indeed. Full details here: https://t.co/z2jGBVcKuT
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It's not football grounds where kids are getting their first taste of the game these days... it's from video games: https://t.co/R5a73PPJYF