Technology
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Geoffrey Hinton, soft-spoken godfather of AI
Oct 9, 2024Bespectacled British scholar Geoffrey Hinton’s birdlike features briefly appeared on TV screens throughout the globe in the spring of last year. A well-known figure in the field of artificial intelligence but little known outside of it,... -
Historic funding round values OpenAI at $157 billion
Oct 4, 2024The firm that created ChatGPT, OpenAI, raised an additional $6.6 billion in capital, increasing its valuation to $157 billion and solidifying its leadership position in the artificial intelligence industry globally. OpenAI made the historic investment, which... -
Experience Professional Portrait Photography with vivo V40 5G
Oct 3, 2024Vivo has officially unveiled its latest edition to the V series, the V40 5G, delivering a revolutionary experience in smartphone photography and filmmaking. Preorders for the V40 5G went live on September 30 and will remain... -
EU voiced concerns about “harmful” content posted on Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube
Oct 3, 2024The EU voiced concerns about “harmful” content posted on Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube as it told the digital platforms on Wednesday to hand over more information on how their platforms recommend content to users. The European... -
Meta to produce its next-generation virtual and augmented reality headsets in Vietnam
Oct 2, 2024Facebook parent Meta will produce its next-generation virtual and augmented reality headsets in Vietnam, creating more than 1,000 jobs, the company said Tuesday. The announcement comes as Vietnam looks to boost its attractiveness as a destination... -
Trump vows to prosecute Google for showing ‘bad’ stories on him
Sep 29, 2024On Friday, Donald Trump declared that Google was only displaying “bad stories” about him and threatened to sue the internet company if he were to win the presidency again. In a post on his Truth Social... -
Japan firm says no longer makes radio reportedly used in Lebanon blasts
Sep 20, 2024The radio model that has been linked to recent explosions in Lebanon is thought to have been discontinued by the Japanese company Icom almost ten years ago. “From 2004 until October 2014, the IC-V82 handheld radio... -
Meta and Spotify blast EU decisions on AI
Sep 20, 2024A coalition of businesses, which included Spotify and Meta, denounced the European Union on Thursday for making “fragmented and inconsistent” decisions regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and data privacy. The companies signed an open letter, along with... -
X says Brazil service restoration ‘inadvertent’ and ‘temporary’
Sep 19, 2024The social network X, owned by Elon Musk, announced on Wednesday that its services have been restored in Brazil after being shut down, but that this was “inadvertent and temporary.” Following a long legal dispute with... -
London hospital to trial sending blood samples by drone
Sep 17, 2024Urgent blood samples taken from patients will be sent for testing by drone to avoid London traffic in a UK first, a hospital in the British capital said on Tuesday. The six-month trial set to begin...
