Google has consented to remove billions of user activity records, including personal information of over 136 million Americans who use the Chrome browser. In June 2020, a class action lawsuit was launched against Google. Attorneys for the plaintiffs and the company declared at the end of December 2023 that they had come to a settlement to assist with the lawsuit's settlement. Among other things,...

A paper on the possible threats artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the regional labor market was released by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in Britain. The IPPR presented three potential scenarios – best-case, baseline, and worst-case. Each scenario examines three levels of risk. In the worst-case scenario, the nation's GDP would not rise and 8 million jobs would be lost as a...

According to Bloomberg, which cites sources, Apple Inc. and Google are in discussions about incorporating the Gemini artificial intelligence model inside the iPhone. They state that there is active discussion between the two firms regarding the prospect of incorporating certain new capabilities into the revised iPhone software that will be launched later this year, using Google's Gemini....

German automaker Mercedes-Benz is testing humanoid robots named Apollo at a plant in Hungary, as reported by the Financial Times. The robots can lift up to 25 kg, have a height of around 170 cm, and weigh roughly 73 kg. They will be employed for quality control and component delivery to assembly lines. According to the FT, Mercedes-Benz intends to use the robots to carry out "physically...

The European Parliament passed a bill on artificial intelligence (AI). Its authors believe that this legislation will promote innovation and safeguard citizens' fundamental rights while also promoting security. The applicable legislation was accepted in Strasbourg during the plenary session, having been agreed upon during the EP deliberations with EU member states in December 2023. The new...

OpenAI, a US technology startup, has released Sora, an AI system for creating videos. Based on text queries, Sora can produce lifelike films, writes The Wall Street Journal. A group of scholars and researchers will be able to use OpenAI to find ways to exploit the system and offer suggestions for countermeasures. The general public cannot currently access the software. The business said that it...

According to the Layoffs.fyi website, global tech corporations let go 34,250 employees in total since the beginning of 2024. Over that time, PayPal Holdings, eBay, and Microsoft Corp., all based in the United States, have reduced thousands of positions. The total number of layoffs for the entire previous year was 263,000. Analysts cited by the Financial Times claim that corporations might...

SpaceX announced on Friday that the Crew Dragon reusable manned spaceship carrying space tourists on board was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as a component of the Axiom commercial program. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the ship from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:49 p.m. U.S. East Coast time on Thursday. The ship's crew includes...

Research firm Gartner has projected that global investment on information technology (IT) will reach over $5 trillion in 2024, an increase of 6.8%. In October, Gartner released its prior projection, which called for growth to $5.1 trillion, an increase of 8%. Through 2023, it is anticipated that global IT spending will rise by 3.3% to $4.68 trillion. Although generative artificial...