European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world that have been slower to regulate Facebook and other social media giants facing increasing blowback over misinformation and other harmful content that can proliferate on […]
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U.S.-based chipmaker Nvidia, announced Wednesday plans to launch its latest technology to enlarge its grip in the automotive field, by incorporating a system that would fasten the training of these vehicles. Nvidia’s “Omniverse” simulation technology revolves around delivering the needed assistance for automotive vehicles by integrating both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the company’s software. This […]
The silos between messaging and voice are disappearing and that is creating demand for service providers that understand what it takes to be successful in both segments. Enterprises need to choose a set of solutions that can serve their needs no matter what communications application they’re using. The increased demand for unified communications has created […]
In the growing battle between federal agencies and the Big Tech league, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will welcome former Google AI researcher Meredith Whittaker to its force as a senior advisor on artificial intelligence (AI). The researcher revealed on Wednesday on Twitter that it will redirect its career path towards the governmental entity. Whittaker […]
Three years ago, Google was pressured by its employees to drop a Pentagon project using artificial intelligence (AI), now, the Big Tech giant is chasing after another massive contract that will work on cloud computing to the military, according to The New York Times. In 2018, Google backed away from Project Maven with the Department of […]
The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to “conduct transnational repression.” The company, whose spyware researchers say has been used around the world to break into the phones of human rights activists, journalists, and even […]
Microsoft joins the metaverse legion by announcing Tuesday the development of a Microsoft Mesh Mixed Reality inside Teams by directly inserting virtual experience platform Mesh to endorse the integration of virtual spaces for consumers and business. The Big Tech titan revealed that following the overtake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world’s shift towards remote […]
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” Jerome Pesenti, vice president of […]
We humans are curious creatures. If we weren’t we would still be living in caves, if living at all. It is in our nature to pursue answers about the cosmos, why things are the way they are, how they came to be, and endlessly more complex questions. Among the most baffling questions that keep scientists awake at night is ‘what is life’. The future of biotechnology may hold the answer to […]
Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push to users causes harm? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry? Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook — which on […]