Innovation

Deadline for EU DMA Compliance Reports Arrives for ‘Gatekeeper’ Orgs
March 6, 2024
March 7 marks the day that six major tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft — must provide compliance reports for the European Union’s Digital Markets...
Are Facebook and Instagram still down? Meta boss apologises for ‘technical issue’ which hit thousands of users
March 5, 2024
Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads suffered widespread problems on Tuesday afternoon, with users locked out of their accounts and pages failing to load properly. Facebook outages reported on Down Detector...
Apple fined £1.5bn for not notifying users of cheaper music streaming options
March 4, 2024
Apple has been fined €1.8bn (£1.54bn) by the EU for favouring its own music streaming service rather than rivals. Apple did not fully inform their device users there were...
Four astronauts blast off to International Space Station on SpaceX rocket
March 4, 2024
Four astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station for a six-month stint in orbit.SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral in...
COVID-19 ‘pandemic babies’ developed ‘fascinating’ protection against common condition, study finds
March 2, 2024
Lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic saw changes in newborn babies that may have protected them against allergies, according to a study.Infants raised when coronavirus social distancing restrictions were...
MWC Barcelona 2024: Telecom Giants Form AI Alliance
March 1, 2024
Members of the mobile and telecommunications industries have gathered at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, held Feb. 26-29. The main trends at MWC so far are AI, 5G...
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying company putting profit over the public good
March 1, 2024
Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire owner of Tesla and X, is suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI, accusing the firm of prioritising profit over developing AI for the public good. Mr...
Winklevoss crypto firm Gemini to return $1.1bn to customers
February 29, 2024
Gemini was co-founded by twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss - known for their legal dispute with Facebook. Source link
‘I’d heard the big, bad, scary conversation about AI’
February 29, 2024
Janna Salokangas, co-founder of Miami-based Mia, says that its AI course is not just about the training, but also about giving the students a sense of togetherness. "It's all...
Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns
February 28, 2024
For the last decade, many Apple employees working on the company’s secretive car project, internally code-named Titan, had a less flattering name for it: the Titanic disaster. They knew...