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Google Search Ads Beat Targets Despite Global 'Uncertainty'

Google search ads lifted parent Alphabet Inc close to Wall Street sales expectations on Tuesday, sending shares up on relief that the world’s biggest seller of online advertising may withstand a global recession better than smaller rivals. A trio of Alphabet executives sounded caution on a call with investment analysts, using “uncertain” or “uncertainty” at […]

The Asus ROG Phone 6 in a Nutshell

The Asus ROG Phone 6 series, the company’s newest gaming phone for the high-performance market, is back. The smartphones have plenty of specs to catch the eye of the discriminating gamer, including a 165Hz display, Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor, and 65W charging, as well as a design aesthetic to match. This year, there […]

Vodafone, Google Look to Extend Wear OS Smartwatch Battery Life

Vodafone is working with Google to extend the battery life of a smartwatch by reducing the “chatter” between the device and the network, a bigger drain of energy than screen brightness and other settings targeted by low power modes. The mobile operator has developed an API (application programming interface) that enables apps and operating systems, […]

It's Alive! How Belief in AI Sentience is Becoming a Problem

AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost every day from users who believe their online friend is sentient. “We’re not talking about crazy people or people who are hallucinating or having delusions,” said Chief Executive Eugenia Kuyda. “They talk […]

Google Targeted in Fresh EU Consumer Groups' Privacy Complaints

Alphabet unit Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users’ personal data harvested via their Google accounts, European consumer organisation BEUC said on Thursday. In addition to the French consumer group, others in Greece, the Czech Republic, Norway and Slovenia […]

Russia Fines Foreign Firms for Alleged Data Storage Violations

Video streaming service Twitch, social network Pinterest, holiday rental company Airbnb and United Parcel Service (UPS) were all fined by a Moscow court on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to store Russian citizens’ personal data in Russia. Moscow has clashed with Big Tech over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dispute that has […]

The Brave Browser as a Gateway to Web3 and the Metaverse

Nowadays, privacy is considered one of the leading issues in the internet’s structure, as web2 has been developed to accommodate some of the most prominent companies in the tech industry, with Google, Facebook, and Amazon leading the way and monopolizing and obtaining most data traffic. And that’s where Brave browser enters the equation.  This article […]

Google Engineer Suspended over Reporting Company's LaMDA AI Chatbot to be Sentient

According to The Washington Post, Blake Lemoine, a member of Google’s Responsible AI organization, started speaking with LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, as part of his job. He had agreed to participate in the experiment to see if the AI used hateful or discriminating language but came to a disturbing conclusion after sharing his conversation […]

Using AI to Control Plasmas for Nuclear Fusion

The United Nations has placed the availability of clean and affordable energy among its priorities through sustainable development goal (SDG) 7. Nuclear energy is seen as one of the best alternatives to meeting this SDG. A report by the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) highlights the main attractive features of nuclear energy including low carbon […]

JPM says Meta will Become Broadcom's next Billion-Dollar Customer

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc will use Broadcom Inc’s custom chips to build its metaverse hardware, becoming the chipmaker’s next billion-dollar ASIC customer, analysts at J.P. Morgan said on Tuesday. ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips will drive $2 billion to $2.5 billion in revenue for Broadcom this year, helped by its deals with Meta and […]