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MICROSOFT BRINGS BING CHATBOT TO PHONES AFTER CURBING QUIRKS
Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails.
1 min |
February 25, 2023
Techlife News
WHAT IS SECTION 230, THE RULE THAT MADE THE MODERN INTERNET?
Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.
3 min |
February 25, 2023
Techlife News
FDA'S OWN REPUTATION COULD BE RESTRAINING ITS MISINFO FIGHT
The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation.
4 min |
February 25, 2023
Techlife News
Amazon Asks Corporate Staff to Be in Offices 3 Days a Week
Amazon will require its corporate employees to return to the office at least three days a week.
1 min |
February 25, 2023
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT MAKES CASE FOR ACTIVISION MERGER AMID EU SCRUTINY
Microsoft’s Xbox video game division announced new partnerships with Nintendo and chipmaker Nvidia as it tries to persuade European regulators to approve its planned $68.7 billion takeover of game publishing giant Activision Blizzard.
2 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
JAPAN ABORTS LAUNCH OF NEW ROCKET CARRYING MISSILE SENSOR
Japan’s space agency aborted the inaugural launch of its next-generation H3 rocket after the auxiliary booster engines failed to ignite, officials said.
2 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
STELLANTIS EARNINGS RISE AS EV PUSH DRIVES HIGHER SALES
Automaker Stellantis reported its earnings grew in 2022 from a year earlier and said its push into electric vehicles led to a jump in sales even as it faces growing competition from an industrywide shift to more climate-friendly offerings.
2 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
HOW TO KEEP YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT SECURE WITHOUT PAYING
Twitter users were greeted last weekend with an ultimatum from the social media app: Subscribe to the platform’s new premium service or lose a popular account security feature.
2 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
PAY-PER-CHEW: MORE RESTAURANTS TRYING SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS
Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food and even toilet paper. And now some restaurants are betting they’ll do the same for their favorite meals.
4 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
AMAZON ASKS CORPORATE STAFF TO BE IN OFFICES 3 DAYS A WEEK
Amazon will require its corporate employees to return to the office at least three days a week.
1 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
Al Summit - Apple is entering the artificial intelligence race
With the AI war heating up and companies like Microsoft and Google battling it out to offer more advanced technologies to their customers, Apple looks set to enter the ring next.
6 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
ΜΕΤΑ TESTING NEW SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE FOR VERIFIED ACCOUNTS
Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account.
1 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
WHAT IS SECTION 230, THE RULE THAT MADE THE MODERN INTERNET?
Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.
3 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
FDA'S OWN REPUTATION COULD BE RESTRAINING ITS MISINFO FIGHT
The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation.
4 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
JAPANESE STARTUP UNVEILS BALLOON FLIGHT SPACE VIEWING TOURS
A Japanese startup announced plans to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down to Earth.
2 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
REESE WITHERSPOON, ASHTON KUTCHER SHINE IN A ROM-COM'
If you decide to settle in and watch “Your Place or Mine” to see the sparks fly between Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, you’ll be initially disappointed. They’re not in the same room until the last 12 minutes.
3 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT BRINGS BING CHATBOT TO PHONES AFTER CURBING QUIRKS
Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails.
1 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
AppleMagazine
Baidu to Implement ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot Chatbot From March
Baidu Inc., one of China’s biggest search and artificial intelligence firms, said Thursday it plans to implement its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie into its search services from March.
1 min |
Ferbruary 24, 2023
Harper's BAZAAR - US
After the Whistle Blows
Silicon Valley likes to lionize disruptors. But for women in the tech industry who speak out, there can be a high price to pay for rocking the boat.
8 min |
March 2023
Techlife News
New Bing Al warfare: The battlefield of the decade is now placed
Welcome to the AI battles, where companies compete to be the top provider of artificial intelligence technology.
4 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
DUBAI AGAIN PLANS FOR FLYING TAXI TAKEOFF, THIS TIME BY 2026
Dubai again is planning for the takeoff of flying taxis in this futuristic city-state on the Arabian Peninsula, offering its firmest details yet for a pledged launch by 2026.
3 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
WHITE HOUSE: TESLA TO MAKE SOME EV CHARGERS AVAILABLE TO ALL
Electric car giant Tesla will, for the first time, make some of its charging stations available to all U.S. electric vehicles by the end of next year, under a new plan announced by the White House.
2 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
FORD STOPS PRODUCTION OF ELECTRIC F-150 AFTER BATTERY FIRE
Ford Motor Co. has suspended production and halted shipments of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup after a battery caught fireduringa pre-delivery quality check.
1 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
BUFFETT'S FIRM BUYS APPLE, SLASHES CHIPMAKER AND BANK STAKES
Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company added to its already substantial Apple investment at the end of last year while slashing a new investment in computer chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor and two longtime bank holdings.
2 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
US BLACKLISTS 6 CHINESE ENTITIES OVER BALLOON PROGRAM
The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace.
1 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
STUDY SHOWS 'STRIKING' NUMBER WHO BELIEVE NEWS MISINFORMS
Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting.
2 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
TIKTOK 'DE-INFLUENCERS' WANT GEN Z TO BUY LESS, AND MORE
At a time when consumers are inundated with so-called social media influencers peddling the latest products online, a slew of TikTok users are leveraging their platforms to tell people what not to buy instead.
4 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
GOOGLE TO EXPAND MISINFORMATION 'PREBUNKING' IN EUROPE
After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online misinformation.
4 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES TO EXPERIMENT WITH MICRO NUCLEAR POWER
If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only onehundredth the electricity and can even be delivered on a truck.
5 min |
February 18, 2023
Techlife News
CBO PROJECTS HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT, SLOW EXIT FROM INFLATION
The Congressional Budget Office said this week that it expects the U.S. economy to stagnate this year with the unemployment rate jumping to 5.1% — a bleak outlook that was paired with a 10-year projection that publicly held U.S. debt would nearly double to $46.4 trillion in 2033.
3 min |