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Will YouTube Dominate the Play? 

YouTube Playables gaming expansion, a new product offering access to online games, as part of its expansion beyond video hosting, aiming to enhance user engagement and diversify revenue streams.  Today, YouTube, the popular video hosting platform owned by Google, is venturing into the realm of online gaming with its latest internal testing of a product […]

Nvidia, AMD Grapple with Latest U.S. Curbs on China’s Inspur

Nvidia Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and other tech firms are scrambling to assess whether they must halt sales to units of China’s Inspur Group Ltd after its addition to a U.S. export blacklist last week. The United States last week added Inspur to its trade blacklist for allegedly acquiring U.S.-origin items in support of […]

Meta Battles U.S. Antitrust Agency over Future of Virtual Reality

The Biden administration on Thursday accused Meta Platforms Inc of trying to buy its way to dominance in the metaverse, kicking off a high-profile trial to try to prevent the Facebook parent from buying virtual reality app developer Within Inc. The FTC sued in July to stop the deal, saying Meta’s acquisition of Within would […]

When the AI Goes Haywire, Bring on the Humans

Used by two-thirds of the world’s 100 biggest banks to aid lending decisions, credit scoring giant Fair Isaac Corp and its artificial intelligence software can wreak havoc if something goes wrong. That crisis nearly came to pass early in the pandemic. As FICO recounted to Reuters, the Bozeman, Montana company’s AI tools for helping banks […]

The China Telecom Building Fire: After the Dust Settled 

On Friday afternoon, September 16th, a massive fire broke out in the China Telecom building, a regional office in China’s Hunan province in South-Central China.  A 218m building, 42-story structure completed in 2000 and is located near a major ring road in Changsha, a city with a population of around 10 million individuals.  As thick […]

Compass Minerals Picks Lithium Extraction Technology to Supply Ford, Others

Compass Minerals International Inc said on Wednesday it will use a lithium extraction technology developed by EnergySource Minerals LLC to produce the electric vehicle battery metal for Ford Motor Co and others. Washington has been pressing for U.S. companies to find greener ways https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/new-lithium-technology-can-help-world-go-green-if-it-works-2022-04-07 to boost domestic production of battery metals and lessen the country’s […]