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GE HealthCare gets $44 million grant to develop AI-assisted ultrasound tech
GE HealthCare gets $44 million grant to develop AI-assisted ultrasound tech
GE HealthCare Technologies Inc has received a grant of more than $44 million from the Bill & Melinda
2023-09-18 20:45
Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Start-Up Anthropic. It’s a Warning to Big Tech Rivals.
Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in AI Start-Up Anthropic. It’s a Warning to Big Tech Rivals.
Amazon’s cloud customers will get early access to Anthropic’s technology through Amazon Bedrock, the company’s generative AI platform for businesses.
2023-09-25 17:54
Apple isn't letting Twitter rebrand as X in the App Store
Apple isn't letting Twitter rebrand as X in the App Store
If you want to download Elon Musk's X app onto your iPhone, well, then you
2023-07-29 22:47
Neopets tries to launch comeback as website promises a ‘new era’
Neopets tries to launch comeback as website promises a ‘new era’
Neopets is launching a comeback that it says will start a “new era” for the virtual pet website. The site was launched in 1999 and became one of the most popular and beloved parts of the early internet. Players were able to look after cartoon pets as well as playing games and chatting with other users. Its popularity led it to boast some 25 million users in the 2000s, at a time before the launch of major social networks. Since then it has fallen dramatically, and many parts of the site have broken as technology has moved on. Now the game is under the management of a new leadership team that has promised to “breathe fresh life into Neopia”, the virtual world in which the game’s characters live. “For most of the last decade, the The Neopets Team [TNT] has been under the management of JumpStart Games, which, over time, has struggled to find success for Neopets,” the team wrote in a long blog post. “Beset by ageing site features, a waning user base, and a lack of resources, TNT had to work tirelessly just to barely keep the site afloat. “The resources available to us simply weren’t substantial enough to sustain the level of growth and development that the site needed to keep up with the times, resulting in bugs, unconverted pages, broken games, and a lack of new content. Despite these challenges, TNT pushed onward, guided by an unwavering belief that this iconic brand that has meant so much to so many truly deserved better.” The new version of the site will launch this week, the team said. It wil included updated games: many of the playable parts of the site broke with the demise of Adobe Flash, but the team has committed to updating them and bringing them back to be played. The team also said that they would be introducing new games, including a mobile game called World of Neopets. That is a “social life-simulation game”, the team said, and it will be distinct from the crypto, metaverse and NFT-focus that has come to the site in recent times. Through the 2000s, Neopets was one of the internet’s most popular websites, and in 2005 it was bought by Viacom for $160 million. But in the years that followed it was beset by problems, and was sold again to JumpStart Games in 2014. That era was marked by a range of problems, including technical issues and data breaches that led to people’s passwords being stolen. In recent years, many parts of the site have been left broken. JumpStart Games shut down at the end of June. But a new management team has struck a deal to buy the website and its contents and the new team will be led by Dominic Law, who played the games in the 2000s. Read More Powerful solar flare to disrupt communications, Russians warn ChatGPT rival with ‘no ethical boundaries’ sold on dark web Watch: James Cleverly chairs UN meeting on artificial intelligence
2023-07-19 01:26
ON Semiconductor Issues Soft Fourth-Quarter Guidance. The Stock Drops.
ON Semiconductor Issues Soft Fourth-Quarter Guidance. The Stock Drops.
ON Semi expects fourth-quarter earnings of between $1.13 and $1.27 a share, which is below analysts' consensus.
2023-10-30 20:57
Major finding on Saturn’s moon Enceladus boosts hope for finding alien life in our solar system
Major finding on Saturn’s moon Enceladus boosts hope for finding alien life in our solar system
Phosphates have been found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, in a new breakthrough discovery that boosts hopes for finding alien life in our solar system. It is the first time phosphorus has been found in an ocean beyond those on Earth, and marks a major development in our understanding of other ocean worlds. Enceladus is one of the most likely hopes for finding nearby extraterrestrial life. While its outside is wrapped in an ice crust, underneath is a global ocean that could be a home for alien life. Some of that ocean spews up and out of the surface of Enceladus, in the form of vast plumes. Scientists have been able to examine those plumes to better understand the ocean itself, including in the new study. Researchers in the latest study used data from the Cassini mission – which flew around Saturn and Enceladus – to find out what the oceans are made up of. They not only found phosphorus, but data suggested that it could be there are concentrations at least 100 times higher than in Earth’s oceans. What’s more, modelling based on the new data suggests the same could be true for other ocean worlds, potentially boosting the chances of alien life there, too. Phosphorus is not in itself evidence of life. But on Earth, the presence of phosphorus compounds in water are crucial for biological activity, and so it is a key part of evaluating whether a distant world might support life. Read More Astronomers find rare planet circling two stars like Star Wars’s Tatooine Elon Musk to launch biggest ever rocket after dramatic failure US government contradicts whistleblower’s claims of possible ‘non-human’ material
2023-06-14 23:21
Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging
Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging
Twitter Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday revealed details about new features including adding calls and encrypted
2023-05-10 08:47
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Challengers Stage Results
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Challengers Stage Results
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Challengers Stage results live and up-to-date at the final CS:GO Major.
2023-05-08 22:52
Evil Genius Games sues Netflix over ‘Rebel Moon’ game creation
Evil Genius Games sues Netflix over ‘Rebel Moon’ game creation
After allegedly creating a tabletop role-playing game set in the world of Zack Snyder’s upcoming ‘Rebel Moon’ film, Evil Genius Games is taking legal action against Netflix over the alleged “wrongful termination” of a contract for its creation.
2023-10-02 20:25
Dutch regulator rejects Apple’s objections against fines
Dutch regulator rejects Apple’s objections against fines
AMSTERDAM Dutch competition watchdog ACM on Monday said it had rejected objections by Apple against fines of 50
2023-10-02 15:56
Huawei’s Stealth Phone Launch Energizes Chinese Chip Stocks
Huawei’s Stealth Phone Launch Energizes Chinese Chip Stocks
Chinese technology shares surged Wednesday after Huawei Technologies Co. surprised investors by debuting a 6,999 yuan ($960) smartphone,
2023-08-30 12:58
TikTok steps up efforts to counter misinformation about Israel-Hamas war
TikTok steps up efforts to counter misinformation about Israel-Hamas war
TikTok is stepping up efforts to counter misinformation, incitement to violence and hate relating to the Israel-Hamas war on its online platform, it announced Sunday, days after the European Union (EU) warned social media companies they risked falling foul of the bloc's content moderation laws.
2023-10-16 17:54