Sun 05 January 2025: Billionaire Elon Musk confirmed Saturday that Starlink applied to launch internet services in Pakistan but was “waiting for approval from the government.” It is in response to a post by a Pakistani netizen, Sanam Jamali, who said Starlink internet services could “leap” Pakistan “into the future, where every citizen has the […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) could significantly influence users’ decision-making processes by analyzing “intention, behavior, and psychological data,” according to a study published Monday. The research, conducted by Britain’s Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, explores a new digital market known as the “intention economy.” This model is designed to […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: Google has paid $CAN100 million ($69 million) to use news stories from Canadian media outlets on its platform, the tech company said Friday. Canadian news outlets were struggling to survive and lost ad revenue to Google and Meta. Under the Online News Act, both companies were told to pay large sums […]
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Sat 04 January 2025: Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit that alleges the privacy-focused company used its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhones and other popular devices. The proposed settlement, which was filed Tuesday in a federal court in Oakland, California, would resolve a five-year-old […]
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Tue 31 December 2024: It will likely prove ever harder for governments and police to regulate 3D-printed firearms. Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years have involved this kind of homemade, or partially homemade, weapon. […]
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Tue 31 December 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia would develop artificial intelligence with BRICS partners and other countries, in a bid to challenge the dominance of the United States in one of the most promising and crucial technologies of the 21st century. Speaking at Russia’s flagship AI conference on Wednesday, Putin […]
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Sun 29 December 2024: Two influential tech CEOs have sparked a debate about AI’s effect on jobs. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski announced the buy-now, pay-later firm stopped hiring a year ago, claiming that AI can do most of the jobs that humans do. And the chief executive of AI firm Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has argued that workers are […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: US President-elect Donald Trump petitioned the Supreme Court on Friday to delay the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a nationwide ban, according to officials. “In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says. The United States space agency has confirmed its Parker Solar Probe is safe after making the closest approach to the Sun ever recorded by a human-made object. The probe passed just 6.1 million kilometres (3.8 […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: One in four families in France experiences cyberbullying ‘Our first reflex should be to remember that a child should never be left alone with a digital screen,’ says general director of L’Enfant Bleu Association PARIS France has made it mandatory since 2023 for children under 15 to obtain parental consent to […]
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