Music creators won’t have difficulty retaining long-term monetary value anymore, as Apple Music just announced that a process has been put together to help pinpoint and reimburse DJs involved in producing a music mix. With the help of the audio-identifier app Shazam, which Apple bought back in 2018 for a value of $400 million, Apple […]
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Microsoft told employees Thursday that it has indefinitely delayed their return to U.S. offices until it’s safer to do so. “Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our U.S. work sites,” Jared Spataro, a corporate vice president, wrote in a blog post. Microsoft […]
Facebook and Ray-Ban have been teasing their smart glasses collaboration for a while now, but news broke out that the new tech piece will officially launch later today, as pictures got leaked out ahead of the announcement. Leaked by the Evan “Evleaks” Blass, the pictures reveal three different models, under the name of Ray-Ban Stories. […]
It’s a good day for Twitter users around the world, as the micro-blogging site has begun testing a number of features, including edge-to-edge media in tweets on iOS as well as incorporating the option to remove a follower without blocking them. According to The Verge, Twitter is testing a feature that will enhance user’s experience […]
Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. The nobly stated goal: Promote law and order and government accountability and modernize a war-ravaged land. But in the Taliban’s lightning seizure of power, most of that digital apparatus — including biometrics for verifying […]
The Middle East on Monday got its first completely automated cashier-less store, as retail giant Carrefour rolled out its vision for the future of the industry in a cavernous Dubai mall. Like Amazon’s breakthrough unmanned grocery stores that opened in 2018, the Carrefour mini-market looks like any ordinary convenience store, brimming with sodas and snacks, […]
China’s famous chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) revealed on Friday plans to upsurge independence in the chip manufacturing sector by investing $8.87 billion to build a chip plant in the tech city of Shanghai, according to a regulatory filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE). The Chinese expansion to globally take the lead […]
Facebook has apologized for putting a “primates” label on a video of Black men, according to a report in the New York Times. The newspaper said the video was posted by a tabloid in June and showed Black men in altercations with white civilians and police officers. After the video ended, an automatic message popped […]
The anticipation for Apple’s annual unveiling of its newest iPhone line is reaching a boiling point, as the tech giant is preparing for its mid-to late-September event at the company’s California headquarters where the public will get a glimpse of the new iPhone 13. While the event hasn’t been announced yet, Apple usually never skips […]
Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks. “It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its Arby’s […]