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Mercedes-Benz Cars to Have ‘Supercomputers’, Unveils Google Partnership

Mercedes-Benz said on Wednesday it has teamed up with Google on navigation and will offer “super computer-like performance” in every car with automated driving sensors as it seeks to compete with Tesla and Chinese newcomers. Automakers new and old are racing to match software-powered features pioneered by Tesla, which allow for vehicle performance, battery range […]

Marketmind: Blue Chips Cheered Up

For markets increasingly wary of the inflation and interest rate implications of re-accelerating world growth, the positive of a new burst of economic confidence in the tech sector adds some cheer at least. The new year craze in artificial intelligence and chatbots seems to have electrified chip designer Nvidia, whose stock surged more than 8% […]

AI Traffic Management Is Not an Employment Threat

We are becoming too many. Billions of phone users worldwide generate data, more importantly, create traffic. Telecom operators need help handling such traffic, and AI is here to help. In the current digital age, telecom services are a necessity. Telecommunication is a necessity for all essential services. Telecom companies must make sure their services are […]

For Tech Giants, AI Like Bing and Bard Poses Billion-Dollar Search Problem

As Alphabet Inc looks past a chatbot flub that helped erase $100 billion from its market value, another challenge is emerging from its efforts to add generative artificial intelligence to its popular Google Search: the cost. Executives across the technology sector are talking about how to operate AI like ChatGPT while accounting for the high […]

Factbox - Chinese Firms Working on Chatgpt-Style Technology

The global buzz around Microsoft chatbot ChatGPT has spread to China, shoring up stocks in artificial intelligence (AI) related firms and prompting a flurry of local companies to announce rival projects. Like Microsoft and Google,Chinese tech giants such as Baidu and Alibaba as well as smaller start-ups have been working on AI projects for years. […]

Exclusive - U.S. To Vet Human Rights More Closely Before Approving Arms Deals - Officials

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will unveil on Thursday a long-awaited overhaul of arms export policy with increased emphasis on human rights, three State Department officials familiar with the new Conventional Arms Transfer (CAT) policy told Reuters. The CAT policy covers review of security assistance, government-to-government weapons transfers and licensed commercial sales of U.S.-origin military […]

U.S. House Panel to Hold Hearing on Policy toward China

The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday with top officials on China policy to identify gaps in pursuing what it called a “more holistic approach” to countering aggression by the Chinese Communist Party. The hearing, announced by the panel’s chair, Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican, is called, “Combating the Generational Challenge […]

Microsoft Inks Nvidia Game Deal to Assuage Regulators over Activision Merger

Microsoft Corp has struck a 10-year deal to bring “Call of Duty” and other Activision games to Nvidia Corp’s gaming platform if the Xbox maker is allowed to complete its much-contested $69 billion acquisition of Activision. Regulators and competitors like Sony have come out hard against the proposed Microsoft-Activision tie-up. The move may allay concerns […]

Telecom Quantum Computing: A Dream or a Fantasy?

A quantum computer is a special kind that uses quantum mechanics to perform some computations more quickly than a conventional computer. Once the technology is in complete form, it is set to revolutionize every industry known to humankind. Alongside the pharmaceutical and cybersecurity sectors, experts postulate that this innovation will change the telecoms industry as […]