As we move further into December , this Winners and Losers update will be one of the final unity before we enter 2024 .
Scroll down to con which tech company won our succeeder form of address this week , along with who we name our also-ran .
Winner: Apple
Apple ’s iOS 17.2 update is on the sensible horizon and we were emotional to hear about some new iPhone features that will be rolling out next week .
One unexampled feature film that ’s sure to come in handy isNameDrop ’s Wallet support . Going forward , you ’ll be able to portion out more than just your contact info using Apple ’s NameDrop feature .
According toMacRumors , Apple is adding the ability to deal embarkation passes , concert tickets , picture ticket and other items from your Apple Wallet simply by holding your earphone together , choosing the straits and hitting Share .
iPhone drug user can already portion out pass wirelessly via AirDrop , but this should make the procedure even more unseamed . We can see it being specially commodious when you ’re in a engaged post or venue where ten of mass are popping up in your AirDrop options as you ’ll be capable to invest your phone like a shot on top of your friend ’s speech sound to assure you have the right person .
The exchange also requires consent from both earphone , intend you do n’t need to worry about anyone stealing your tag as they brush past you .
Meanwhile,9to5Macrecently reported that support for theQi2 wireless buck standard will be coming to all iPhone 13 and 14 modelswith iOS 17.2 . This mean that iPhone users will no longer need to rely on MagSafe chargers to take advantage of wireless blame speeds up to 15W.
Loser: Google
With Apple our achiever this week , you might take that Google being our loser has something to do with Android . However , our loser today revolve around AI .
Back in May , Google gave the world an early look atGemini , Google ’s solvent to OpenAI ’s ChatGPT and the AI example created to follow PaLM 2 behind the society ’s ownBardchatbot . The large speech model is multimodal , meaning it can translate text , paradigm , video , audio recording and computer computer code simultaneously .
It ’s well-informed , too .
“ With a score of 90.0 % , Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU ( massive multitask language understanding ) , which use a combination of 57 subject such as math , aperient , story , law , medicine and ethics for testing both world cognition and problem - solving abilities”,wrote Google DeepMind chief operating officer and Co - Founder Demis Hassabis .
So , why is Google our loser ?
This workweek , Google disclose that Gemini would cast out in separate phase , with Gemini Pro and Gemini Nano introduction in Bard and on the Pixel 8 Pro this week and the more powerful Gemini Ultra get early next year with Bard Advanced .
People in 170 land and territories , admit the US , can currently get at the new Gemini Pro - powered translation of Google Bard . However , the UK is not one of them .
Likewise , EU citizens will have to wait until the European Union okay the raw expectant spoken language fashion model as part of its GDPR regularization for AI .
