July 23, 2021 On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the bill, which requires big tech platforms to choose between operating a platform and competing on it. The bill, which passed the more...
July 23, 2021 Viola AI Artist, an app that turns users into a Pixar-worthy cartoon avatar by harnessing users' faces and transforming them into three different cartoon styles from which users can choose with complete shading, is gaining more...
July 23, 2021 Britain's artificial intelligence research laboratory, DeepMind Technologies, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, announced in a recent press release that it will use AI to fight the deadliest parasitic diseases in the developing world. This will more...
July 23, 2021 Research and consulting firm Gartner predicted in a study that 51% of all knowledge workers worldwide will work remotely by the end of 2021, compared to 27% of knowledge workers in 2019. Gartner defines knowledge more...
July 23, 2021 The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved a bill in a long session on Wednesday to provide more funding to antitrust regulators but has yet to decide on four bills aimed at reining in more...
July 23, 2021 British-born U.S. technology entrepreneur John McAfee died by suicide in a Barcelona prison on Wednesday after the Spanish high court approved his extradition to the United States on charges of tax evasion, says Reuters. McAfee's more...
July 23, 2021 Faced with five antitrust laws that could end Big Tech monopoly, according to the New York Times Apple CEO Tim Cook personally called Speaker Nancy Pelosi to convey "a warning" that the hasty antitrust laws more...
August 3, 2021 Blaston, the first on-board game developer to test Facebook's plan to integrate advertising into Oculus VR games, made a U-turn after a backlash from players. It comes just days after Facebook announced plans to place more...
August 3, 2021 The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said in a statement that the coronavirus pandemic has fuelled the hunger for trustworthy news at a time of global crisis, and the majority of people want more...
August 3, 2021 On Wednesday, Facebook researchers Xi Yin and Tal Hassner revealed they have developed artificial intelligence that can identify so-called "deepfakes" and trace their origins through reverse engineering. While the work was done in collaboration with more...
August 3, 2021 Some Texas residents expressed regret at their decision to participate in the program, which allows companies to remotely adjust the temperature of their smart thermostats by a few degrees at high energy levels. An energy more...
August 3, 2021 Snapchat deletes a feature that shows how fast a user is on the move when they take a photo or video. Parent company Snap justified this by saying that the speed filter would be removed more...
