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AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step

Mar 22, 2024 (SPX)

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have introduced a new framework that simplifies the multi-step process of tradit...

UK ups competition concerns over Vodafone, Three deal

Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)

The Competition and Markets Authority said it could deepen its probe, after launching in January an investigation into the deal, should the pair fail to address...

Social media company Reddit set for NYSE debut after IPO

Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)

Reddit is set to debut Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RDDT after an IPO priced at $34 dollars a share, the company said Wednesday in a...

FeatUp: Revolutionizing Computer Vision with High-Resolution Feature Analysis

Mar 21, 2024 (SPX)

Now, MIT researchers have created a system called "FeatUp" that lets algorithms capture all of the high- and low-level details of a scene at the same time - alm...

String of litigation cases bites Apple

Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)

Here are the key allegations concerning its main recent legal battles: - Stand-off with Epic Games - Video game publisher Epic Games has been scouring the court...

Apple's 'Walled Garden' under fire in lawsuit

Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)

- Apple versus PCs - Very early on in its nearly half-century history, Apple made a decision that its products were to stand out alone and shouldn't be combined...

Temu owner Pinduoduo nearly doubles annual profit

Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)

The Shanghai-based giant, which has made affordable products its speciality since launching in China in 2015, posted a year-on-year net profit jump of 90 percen...

Chinese internet giant Tencent posts lowest annual profit since 2019

Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)

Tencent's total net profit for 2023 stood at 115.2 billion yuan ($16.0 billion), according to a filing of annual results at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Decade...

Meta, Microsoft slam Apple over app store policy

Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)

The four companies filed a rare joint amicus brief in a California court in charge of applying a ruling that Apple must allow companies to link to alternative p...

Apple in talks to bring Google's Gemini AI to iPhone: report

Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)

The move, if confirmed and resulting in a deal, would answer one of the big questions about the iPhone-maker's AI strategy, which has been criticized as lagging...

Monsters, asteroids, vampires: AI conspiracies flood TikTok

Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)

In the trend reported by the nonprofit Media Matters, TikTok users seek to monetize viral videos that make unfounded claims about the US government secretly cap...

Prosecutors urge 40-50 years for crypto fraudster Bankman-Fried

Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)

The founder and CEO of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange platform will face sentencing on March 28 after being found guilty in early November of seven counts incl...

Apple reaches $490 million settlement over China comments

Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)

Shareholders criticized Apple executives, in particular CEO Tim Cook, for stating in November 2018 that the company's business remained buoyant in China, even t...

Trump ex-Treasury chief seeks TikTok buyout bid as China seethes

Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)

TikTok has soared in popularity worldwide, but its ownership by Chinese technology giant ByteDance -- and alleged subservience to Beijing's ruling Communist Par...

African internet access hit by damaged undersea cables

Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)

"Breaks in multiple major undersea cables have affected connectivity services in several West African countries," the South African operator MTN Group said in a...

New York museum harnessing technology to spotlight art

Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)

The Mercer Labs Museum of Art and Technology features works by Roy Nachum, a painter, sculptor and sound and light designer. Open since January in Manhattan's f...

Foxconn logs second straight quarter of profits as AI demand surges

Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)

The firm -- also known by its official name Hon Hai Precision Industry -- is the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer and assembles devices for sev...

AST SpaceMobile's Licensing Update Marks Milestone in Space-Based Cellular Services

Mar 13, 2024 (SPX)

Scott Wisniewski, Chief Strategy Officer, stated, "With these updates, AST SpaceMobile reaffirms its commitment to aligning our satellite network development cl...

TikTok devotees say platform unfairly targeted for US ban

Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)

The House of Representatives approved a bill that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned over its alleged links to the Communist Party...

US House to vote on TikTok ban

Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)

The legislation is the biggest threat yet to the video-sharing app, which has surged to huge popularity across the world all while causing intense nervousness a...