Microsoft opened a new tab on Wednesday and rolled out a chat service allowing businesses to use on-demand AI agents for routine tasks, betting on the pay-as-you-go model to drive up the adoption of the technology.The free service, Copilot Chat, which uses OpenAI's GPT-4, lets users create AI agents using natural languages such as English and Manda

This is the fifth feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and treatments.The difficulty of getting an appointment with a GP is a familiar gripe in the UK.Even when an appointment is secured, the rising workload faced by doctors means those meetings can be shorter than either the doctor or patient would li

Omi AI, a San Francisco-based AI firm, unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) companion at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2025). Currently available for pre-order, the device can be worn in multiple ways. Once paired with a smartphone (it supports both Android and iOS), it continuously listens to the user and their surroundings. The company a

US safety regulators have opened an investigation of a Tesla feature that allows drivers to summon parked cars without being in the vehicle after numerous accidents were reported linked to the technology.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the Tesla cars operating in the "Actually Smart Summon" mode were reported to be unable to

Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots helped consumers purchase and return products during the 2024 holiday season, boosting online sales in the United States by nearly 4% year-over-year, according to a report by Salesforce.Retailers turned to nifty conversational customer services - or chatbots - among others such as targeted promotions, produc

Huawei launched the Mate XT Ultimate Design in September last year as the world's first triple-screen foldable phone. Now, a tipster suggests that the smartphone brand is gearing up to unveil the Huawei Mate XT 2 successor. The leak also reveals the processor of the second-generation tri-fold handset. The Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design runs on an o

LG isn’t waiting until CES begins to reveal its new collection of gaming monitors. The 2025 lineup is led by the UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor, which LG claims is the “world’s first 5K2K-resolution bendable OLED display.” That strikes me as extremely specific, but hey, it’s always worth bragging when you’re first, I suppose. Th

Aitomatic and the other collaborators under the Foundation Models workgroup of the AI Alliance unveiled a new semiconductor-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model earlier this month. Dubbed SemiKong, the large language model (LLM) is built on the domain-expert agents (DXA) architecture and has been trained on high-quality data about the industr

South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight wearable robot that can walk up to paraplegic users and lock itself onto them, enabling them to walk, manoeuvre obstacles and climb staircases.The Exoskeleton Laboratory team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said their goal is to create a robot that seamlessly in

The brain often blurs the senses, a fact that marketers often use in the design of food packaging. AIs appear to do the same.What is the flavor of a pink sphere? And what is the sound of a Sauvignon Blanc? Such questions may sound ridiculous, but a huge body of literature shows us that the human brain naturally merges sensory experiences. We m

This is the third feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and treatments.Ovarian cancer is “rare, underfunded, and deadly", says Audra Moran, head of the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (Ocra), a global charity based in New York.Like all cancers, the earlier it is detected the better.Most ovarian cance

Geothermal energy startups are on the upswing with Big Tech companies looking to feed their power-intensive AI data centers, but long-term investments remain uncertain as oil majors double down on natural gas.Meta and Alphabet's Google are among the tech companies partnering with startups proposing to produce geothermal electricity, to power their

A study published in Physical Review Letters explores a new approach to detecting the gravitational wave memory effect, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's general relativity. This effect refers to the permanent alteration in the distance between cosmic objects caused by a passing gravitational wave. Scientists suggest that existing gravitational

Meta is researching and developing new AI models that could have potential uses in Web3 applications. The Facebook parent firm has released an AI model called Meta Motivo that can control the bodily movements of digital avatars. It is expected to improve the overall metaverse experience. The newly unveiled model is expected to offer optimized

Astro Bot has won the top prize at the videogame industry's biggest awards ceremony.The cute and colorful PlayStation platformer beat Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Black Myth: Wukong, Metaphor: Refantazio Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, and Balatro to be named Game of the Year at The Game Awards .Nicolas Doucet, studio head of developer Team Asobi, a

Microsoft is rolling out a native Copilot app for Windows, the company announced on Tuesday. Introduced for testers registered with the Windows Insider Program, it replaces the progressive web app (PWA) which was available until now. The native Copilot for Windows app is being offered as an update following which it will appear in the system tray,

The company told that Canadian AI startup Cohere, valued at $5.5 billion, will focus on building tailored models for enterprise users over larger foundation models.The evolvement of its strategy, laid out in a company letter to its investors on Thursday, comes as many companies are still trying to figure out how to incorporate large language models

Wearable tech – currently dominated by smartwatches - is a multi-billion dollar industry with a sharp focus on health tracking.Many premium products claim to accurately track exercise routines, body temperature, heart rate, menstrual cycle, and sleep patterns, among other things.Health Secretary Wes Streeting has talked about a proposal to give w

California-based Apple is reportedly working on a new generation of vision-based products, including smart glasses and AirPods equipped with cameras, as part of its expanding focus on wearable technology and augmented reality. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, these innovative devices could hit the market by 2027, though their development rem

Artificial intelligence-powered speech synthesisers can now hold eerily realistic spoken conversations, putting on accents, whispering and even cloning the voices of others. So how can we tell them apart from the human voice?These days it's quite easy to strike up a conversation with AI. Ask a question of some chatbots, and they'll even provide an

In 2018, the SonarPen debuted as a cheaper alternative to the Apple Pencil. It uses audio signals transmitted to the iPad over a cable instead of Bluetooth. Its creators are back with an upgraded USB-C version that introduces additional functionality, including tilt detection and an improved tip that now closely resembles the Apple Pencil’s.The S

A day celebrating innovative ideas and technology has been held in Kent town.The Innovation Showcase took place in venues across Gravesend with experts from leading universities sharing their knowledge with the public.One of the most popular exhibits on display was the Crawlybots - four-wheeled flexible robots with large LED eyes that can display a

Autonomous vehicles are already clocking up millions of miles on public roads, but they face an uphill battle to convince people to climb in to enjoy the ride.A few weeks ago, I took a tour of San Francisco in one of Waymo's self-driving cars. As we drove around the city, I was struck by how comfortable people had become with not seeing a driver. N

Pete Middleton, who lives in Northamptonshire, UK with his wife, has long been an early adopter of technology.He became interested in computing while in the Royal Air Force in the 1980s and went on to learn several programming languages.In recent years he’s been enthusiastic about the rise of AI, which he uses for creating artwork and conducting

Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI seek to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in pursuing ever-bigger large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to “think”.A dozen AI scientists, researchers, and investors told Reuters they believe that these techniques, which are behin

Soon battery-powered trains could be coming to a station near you.As the UK’s fleet of diesel engines approaches retirement, manufacturers are looking to replace them with environmentally-friendly alternatives.Trains currently draw power from overhead electrified wires or, on lines without these wires, from onboard diesel generators. Many trains

Sony said its operating profit rose 73% in the July-September quarter, with strong sales in its game and network business helping to offset weakness in movies.Sony, whose businesses include music and chips, maintained its profit forecast of 1.31 trillion yen ($8.51 billion) for the year to March, largely in line with the 1.34 trillion yen esti

Researchers are investigating how AI could help identify new treatments for children with brain tumors.Although rare, about 420 children in the UK are diagnosed with brain cancer every year.The team from the Cancer Research UK Children’s Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence in Cambridge will also look at how to improve survival rates.Youngsters with

The images we are exposed to on social media and internet websites have a surprising influence on how we view the world.Every day we are bombarded with digital images. They appear on our social media feeds, in our search results and the websites we browse. People send them to us via messaging apps or over email. By the end of today, billions more w

After much speculation over the past year, OpenAI is finally taking on Google and Microsoft Bing by adding search functionality in ChatGPT. The GPT-4o model powers the new search feature and is a more evolved version of the SearchGPT prototype unveiled by the company earlier this year.The ChatGPT search feature is triggered by default based on what

We're at the mercy of Google." Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world – even when they're asking the same question.Type in "Is Kamala Harris a good Democratic candidate", and Google paints a rosy picture. Search results are constantly changing, but last week, the first link was a Pew Resear

Coframe, an artificial intelligence startup focused on website optimization, said on Tuesday it raised $9.3 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and NFDG, the AI-focused fund run by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and former Apple executive Daniel Gross.Coframe’s platform utilizes generative AI to continuously test and

Smartwatches gather vast amounts of data about our physiology. Now their technology is being harnessed like never before.As the chief anaesthesiologist at CHUV University Hospital, Patrick Schoettker is all too aware of the complications which can follow a lengthy operation under a general anesthetic.Rapid blood loss from the surgical site can send

There’s one word to describe Intel’s and AMD’s latest CPUs: disappointing. AMD’s Zen 5 desktop CPUs arrived in August and failed to impress in both productivity and gaming workloads. The Ryzen 9 9950X was supposed to be a “monster,” but it was underwhelming for PC gaming. Now, it’s Intel’s turn to disappoint.Over the past week, I’

Tyler was walking outside the Science Museum in South Kensington when his phone was snatched."I was just walking along with my headphones in, phone in my hand and they just drove past and yanked the phone out of my hand," he said."I was gutted. I realized it was truly gone once my music disconnected from my phone, from my headphones."Having gone th

Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone, SoC, and like the laptop chips from which it borrows its “Elite” name, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says that this shift enables faster performance and—lest we f

AI algorithms prompt robots to interrogate, select, and make decisions to create a paintingWith a brush clamped firmly in her bionic hand, Ai-Da’s robotic arm moves slowly. She dips into a paint palette and then makes slow, deliberate strokes across the paper in front of her.According to Aidan Meller, the creator of the world’s first ultra-real

Amazon opened a new tab on Wednesday and announced its first color Kindle e-reader, following years of effort to bring the more immersive device to market.The 'Kindle Colorsoft' carries a $280 price tag that compares with similar devices from other manufacturers available on Amazon in the range of $149 to $330. According to a company statement

Visitors to a natural history museum will be able to have two-way chats with animals on display using generative artificial intelligence (AI).The University of Cambridge's Museum of Zoology has chosen 13 specimens for the conversations, including the extinct flightless bird the dodo, narwhal and blue fin whale skeletons, a red panda, and a preserve

Tesla boss Elon Musk has unveiled the firm's long-awaited robotaxi, the Cybercab, at the Warner Bros Studios in Burbank, California.The futuristic-looking vehicle, featuring two wing-like doors - and no pedals or steering wheel - deposited Mr Musk in front of an audience eager to hear details about a project he considers key to Tesla's next chapter

It seems like Nintendo just revealed its mysterious device that recently crossed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — and it’s not the Switch 2. On Wednesday, Nintendo announced, of all things, the “Alarmo” alarm clock. But in classic Nintendo fashion, the clock has some playful tricks.The clock responds to your movements, which yo

With a loneliness epidemic gripping many parts of the world, some people are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and relationships. But is it all just harmless fun? Chris excitedly posts family pictures online from his trip to France. Brimming with joy, he starts gushing about his wife: "A bonus picture of my cutie… I'm so happy to see mot

If you always have trouble finding that specific pasta sauce like I do, there’s a smart grocery shopping cart that can map it out for you. Instacart’s Caper Cart, which has a touchscreen and payment terminal up front where you’d normally seat your toddler or play Jenga with your produce, now has a new store map system that can help navig

Amazon just announced a new Fire HD 8 tablet, and like many new gadgets in 2024, generative AI-powered tools are among the big new features. But you won’t necessarily need to buy the new Fire HD 8 to try them; Amazon says they’re coming to Fire HD 10 and Fire Max 11 tablets, too.The new AI tools are things you’ve probably seen before. A writi

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has raised $6.6bn in its latest funding round, as investors including its early backer Microsoft continue to bet big on artificial intelligence (AI).The deal gave the tech company a value of $157bn (£118bn) - similar to investment bank Goldman Sachs and more than most of America's biggest companies - making it one of

An art exhibition showcasing the past and future of the art of photography will also press viewers to be more "critical and informed" about the use of artificial intelligence (AI).Community Portraits uses a variety of photographic techniques to capture images of ordinary people in Bedford who would not usually get the chance of a professional galle

When it comes to using technology at home, women tend to do more of the day-to-day online work for the family, creating an extra digital burden.My phone pings and it's the school chat group reminding us that it's a dress-up day. I scramble to fashion an outfit together for our children to wear. I do this without thinking about it, before my partner

The 2014 Google Glass debacle stigmatized smart glasses, but the devices may be poised for a comeback.Despite Google Glass's flaming failure, Meta and Google appear to be all in on the next generation of smart glasses that combine fashion, functionality, and generative AI into a compelling form factor, maintained Gene Munster, managing partner of D

Meta Platforms , opens new tab expanded its bet on artificial intelligence, announcing a raft of new product offerings for its ChatGPT-like chatbot and plans to start automatically injecting personalized images created by the bot into people's Facebook and Instagram feeds, as it kicked off its annual Connect conference at its California headquarter

Gamers in Merseyside are being given the chance to consider what life might be like for animals in 2050 thanks to an "immersive online experience" being rolled out by the RSPCA.The Animal Futures project brings to life five possible futures for animal welfare and explores the consequences of factors like climate change and loss of natural habitat f

Amazon introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generator tool that can create advertisements on Thursday. The e-commerce giant said the latest video tool will enable advertisers to generate a “content-rich” video packed with the product's selling proposition and features. The company claimed the video can create advertisements with

Less than a few hours after Snapchat rolled out its My AI chatbot to all users last week, Lyndsi Lee, a mother from East Prairie, Missouri, told her 13-year-old daughter to stay away from the feature.“It’s a temporary solution until I know more about it and can set some healthy boundaries and guidelines,” said Lee, who works at a software com

South Korea convened an international summit on Monday seeking to establish a blueprint for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military. However, any agreement is not expected to have binding powers to enforce it.More than 90 countries including the United States and China have sent government representatives to the two-day

Lucid revealed new information about the EV charge port of its upcoming Gravity SUV and teased an all-new, more affordable vehicle at the Technology and Manufacturing Day event.The Lucid Gravity, slated for its first deliveries later this year, will come equipped with a native Tesla-compatible port “in 2025.” The Tesla connector, now known as t

Oracle and Amazon Web Services have partnered to launch the new Oracle database@AWS. Oracle is well-known for its database technology, and Amazon Web Service is among the tech giants for cloud services. The team-up will bring new features to customers.OCI and AWS are the two giants in the cloud computing industry. It is often a daunting task for th

In a warehouse building in a quiet town in Northern Ireland, a robot arm is opening and closing an airplane meal table over and over again.It has been programmed to carry out this mundane task no fewer than 28,000 times, day and night, for more than a week. And it won’t even get a bag of peanuts.“We can measure the force that the robot’s havi

 OpenAI executives have discussed higher-priced subscriptions for upcoming large language models, such as its reasoning-focused Strawberry and a new flagship LLM dubbed Orion, the Information reported.In early internal talks at OpenAI, subscription prices ranging up to $2,000 per month were discussed, the report said, citing one person with di

Google announced multiple new features for Android users . There are a total of five new features being added to existing Android tools such as TalkBack and Circle to Search. Google Chrome is also getting a new text-to-speech feature that will allow users to listen to articles and web pages easily. Offline Google Maps are also being added to suppor

 Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter.Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new "Remarkable" version of Alexa. It will use powerful generative AI

Google Photos for Android could soon be updated with a new feature that will let users quickly edit their videos. The feature is currently not available to users and was found hidden within the app. These video presets reportedly contain four new tools that each allow users to make specific edits to either the entire video — or a particular

OpenAI stunned users when it demonstrated an updated voice mode for the most advanced version of ChatGPT earlier this year.Far from the kind of robotic voice that people have come to associate with digital assistants like Alexa or Siri, the ChatGPT advanced voice mode sounds remarkably lifelike. It responds in real-time, adjusts to being interrupte

General Motors’ Cruise unit has agreed to recall nearly 1,200 robotaxis over hard braking issues, the U.S. auto safety regulator said on Thursday, following a probe into the safety of their autonomous driving systems.As a result of the recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has agreed to close the investigation, which

AI-based technology has stopped almost 6,000 deer from crossing busy rail routes in England.Network Rail and train operator LNER installed the deterrent system at Stoke Junction, near Stoke-on-Trent, in May 2023 before expanding the scheme to Little Bytham, near Grantham, in December 2023.It uses AI to identify when a deer approaches the tracks and

Fortnite, one of the world's biggest video games, is available as a mobile phone app for the first time in four years.It's back, via the newly launched Epic Games Store, on Android phones worldwide - including the UK - but is only available for iPhone users in the EU.This is because EU law requires Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devic

Global shipments of artificial intelligence (AI) PCs rose in Q2 2024, according to a report by market research firm Canalys. Over 8.8 million AI-capable computers were shipped by device manufacturers, and Apple's Mac computers accounted for a majority of these devices. Meanwhile, the adoption of these computers is reportedly expected to increase in

Google unveiled a lineup of new Pixel smartphones with deeper integrations of its artificial intelligence technology as it races to incorporate AI into its hardware.The event at Alphabet’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, bucks a tradition Google has maintained with every iteration of Pixel - its flagship smartphone launched in October

Archer Aviation on Thursday announced an agreement in principle with Stellantis under which the automaker would bear up to $370 million of labor-related costs to support a planned ramp-up of the air-taxi maker’s aircraft.The funding will give Archer access to much-needed capital to fund the production of its flagship ‘Midnight’ aircraft to 65

Apple’s smallest Mac is in for some major changes, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. A new version of the Mac Mini coming later this year will undergo the product’s most significant redesign in over a decade. Gurman says “the device will be far smaller than its predecessor, approaching the size of an Apple TV set-top box.” That’s ti

Ford’s new Android-powered infotainment system is finally coming to a Ford-branded vehicle. The automaker’s so-called Digital Experience, which debuted with the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus earlier this year, will power the new 2025 Ford Explorer SUV, the company announced today.The 2025 Ford Explorer includes many of the Digital Experience’s main f

Technology that identifies people at risk of a heart attack in the next 10 years has been hailed as "game changing" by scientists.The artificial intelligence (AI) model detects inflammation in the heart that does not show up on CT scans, which involve a combination of X-rays and computer technology.A pilot project, supported by NHS England, is runn

Actors from the world of gaming went on strike last week, in a row about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and the threat it poses to their livelihoods. It has reignited the debate about how the entertainment industry is adapting to new technology.When actor Jennifer Hale talks, you listen. Her delivery is measured and surgically precise, yet

 Intel opened a new tab on Wednesday and won the London leg of a global patent dispute with U.S. rival R2 Semiconductor, which had been seeking an injunction potentially preventing the sale of some of Intel's chips.R2 sued Intel at London's High Court in 2022, arguing Intel had infringed its patent by marketing chips and processors containing

We asked a professional comedian to deliver some jokes written by artificial intelligence on stage. What happened reveals a lot about just how much machines understand the very human sense of humor. Karen Hobbs was more nervous than usual before this particular gig. A well-known circuit comedian, she's accustomed to the UK's often bruisin

Tesla boss Elon Musk says the electric car maker will start producing and using humanoid robots from next year.In a social media post, Mr Musk said the robots will first be used by Tesla, which will start making them to sell in 2026.The announcement came as the technology billionaire has been pushing to cut costs at Tesla in the face of weakening d

A Cambridgeshire company is working on a new way to make medicines in space.The UK Space Agency (UKSA) announced BiologIC Technologies will share a £65m fund to develop new technologies that will be tested inside the International Space Station (ISS).Microgravity makes some health research, such as studying age-related diseases, and potentially gr

More than 170,000 YouTube videos are part of a massive dataset used to train AI systems for some of the biggest technology companies, according to an investigation by Proof News and published with Wired. Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce are among the tech firms that used the “YouTube Subtitles” data ripped from the video platf

British artificial intelligence (AI) chip firm Graphcore - once considered a potential rival to market leader Nvidia - has been bought by a Japanese conglomerate.Softbank has not disclosed how much it paid - but it is thought to be considerably less than the £2bn the UK company was valued at after a financing round in 2020.Graphcore head Nigel Too

Samsung is hoping to lure fitness and health-tracking technology lovers with its newest wearable device - the Galaxy Ring.It launched the device at its Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday as the latest addition to its ecosystem of devices it says it is "supercharging" with artificial intelligence (AI).Smart rings, which use tiny sensors to monitor v

From the Boox Palma to the Light Phone 2, everyone is looking for distraction-free reading, if only they had the right device. I don’t blame them: every time I pull out my phone to mindlessly scroll, I know my time could be put to better use. But as the owner of many fine gadgets, I also don’t want another device in my life, so I was pretty exc

Meta Platforms newest social media offering Threads has over 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Wednesday, ahead of its first anniversary.A challenger to X, formerly known as Twitter, Threads hit app stores on July 5 last year, timed to win users from the de facto micro-blogging site during its chaotic takeover b

Tech giant Google is reportedly poised to revolutionize group travel with a new feature for Google Maps, according to a recent patent application. This functionality, aimed at users traveling in multiple cars, could transform how people navigate to shared destinations. As one of the most popular navigation apps globally, Google Maps conti

According to a report , American tech giant Apple is preparing to bring its new suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features to the Apple Vision Pro. Unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024, these AI capabilities include advanced Writing Tools, an AI-enhanced Siri, Genmoji, and more. Initially, these features were announc

In its first live demonstration, an electric car battery developed by UK start-up Nyobolt has successfully charged from 10% to 80% in four minutes and 37 seconds.It was achieved with a specially-built concept sports car on a test track in Bedford, and is part of industry-wide efforts to get electric vehicles (EVs) charging more quickly.By compariso

Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector's first trade group, they said on Wednesday.The Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA) will advocate for "ethical data sourcing" in the training of AI systems, including rights for people depicted in dataset

At first glance, it looks like a relic from the 1980s. A tiny computer screen with flickering, low-resolution text scrolling across it. But this could be the future.The screen was made using perovskite light emitting diode (PeLED) technology. It is radically different from the LED technology used in your smartphone display today, and it could lead

Spotify raised the prices for premium plans earlier in June, the latest step by the Swedish music-streaming service in its push to increase margins.Spotify introduced a new streaming plan for users in the United States on Friday, after raising prices for its premium plans earlier this month.The new basic plan will start at $10.99 per month for elig

A new games innovation zone aims to showcase Guildford as the UK’s "Hollywood for video games".The hub, part of a £2.3m program to promote the town's gaming legacy, includes areas for collaborative working and testing, and playing games. Major gaming companies EA, Epic and Sledgehammer are located in Guildford.The project's organizers, whic

Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer will provide server racks for the supercomputer that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is building, the U.S. businessman said on social media platform X on Wednesday.Dell is assembling half of the racks for xAI's supercomputer, Musk said on X. In a reply to another post enquiring ab

If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.Writer Benjamin Miller – not his real name – was thriving in early 2023. He led a team of more than 60 writers and editors, publishing blog posts and articles to promote a tech company that packages and resells data on everything from

If you're struggling to say you're sorry, AI is happy to help. But can robots handle social intelligence? To find out, we put their apologies to the test.I want to apologise. Over the past few weeks, I subjected my co-workers, family and friends to a rather deceitful social experiment. With the help of some psychology researchers, I manufactured a

Taiwanese chip design giant MediaTek is developing an Arm-based personal computer chip intended to run Microsoft’s Windows operating system, similar to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite for Copilot+ laptops.This development aligns with Microsoft’s recent unveiling of a new generation of laptops featuring chips designed with Arm Holdings technolog

Oracle shares jumped 9% on Wednesday as investors cheered a boom in demand for the company's relatively low-cost cloud infrastructure services from artificial intelligence applications.If the gains hold, the company will add about $30 billion to its market valuation of $340 billion as of Tuesday's market close. The shares have so far this year

Apple kicked off its annual developer conference on Monday, where the technology giant is expected to showcase how it is integrating artificial intelligence across its software suite, including a revamped Siri voice assistant and a possible tie-up with ChatGPT owner OpenAI.The company began the event by offering details on the latest operating syst

From animal lovers to laboratory technicians, no one enjoys subjecting animals to scientific testing.It is instead done to help ensure that drugs and other substances are safe for eventual human use.Researchers have long sought non-animal alternatives. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are now accelerating this work.One application of AI in this

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to identify patients at risk of heart failure, meaning they could be treated earlier, Leeds-based researchers have said.An algorithm, known as Find-HF, has been "trained" by the Leeds University researchers to detect early symptoms of the condition using patient records.According to the British Heart Found

Teams of robots jostled on a miniature artificial soccer pitch as androids answered trivia questions and took jabs at human ignorance on Thursday at an artificial intelligence summit on the technology's wide-ranging uses.Organizers said the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva showed how the technology could improve and even transform lives."Sometim

Artificial intelligence (AI) in education was once just considered a tool used by pupils to help write their essays. Still, schools in the South East are also beginning to harness the technology.A West Sussex boarding prep school now has an AI head teacher acting as a "co-pilot" with the school's human leader Tom Rogerson.Cottesmore School has also

Google and Meta have reportedly joined OpenAI in the artificial intelligence (AI) content licensing war. OpenAI has been making numerous deals with news publishers and other websites to access their data to train its AI models. As per a report, Google and Meta have also entered the market to strike content licensing deals with Hollywood studios. It

The airline said that using artificial intelligence (AI) at easyJet's new control centre has allowed its operations teams to manage flights better.Personnel at the integrated control center near Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, have access to Jetstream, a generative AI tool.It helps them solve issues for pilots and crews on the ground more quickly, eas

BT has significantly delayed plans to force customers to switch from physical copper-based landlines to internet-based services following concerns from vulnerable people.The switch was paused at the end of last year after several incidents where telecare devices stopped working.Nearly two million people in the UK use personal alarms which rely on l

In response to recent reports alleging that OpenAI's AI model Sora has been trained on YouTube videos without proper permissions, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has pledged to address the matter if there is substance to the claims.Pichai's remarks come after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati expressed uncertainty regarding whether Sora's training data includes

U.S. officials flagged concerns over China's "misuse" of artificial intelligence in their first formal bilateral talks on the issue, the White House said on Wednesday, as the superpowers seek to avoid confrontation over the fast-developing technology.During the meetings in Geneva on Tuesday, the U.S. delegation also stressed to their Chinese counte

Volunteers are required for a clinical trial where people with depression will be treated by an AI algorithm.Oxford University's Department of Psychiatry is testing the digital tool known as Petrushka, which it said would personalize antidepressant treatment.It uses data from more than one million people and recommends, in real-time, the best antid

OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.Though subject to change, the announcement date has not been previously reported. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft-back

This summer's Download Festival has added a new act to its line-up.It's not another band though, but the Japanese role-playing video game Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance.An "immersive experience" will let festival-goers play the game on-site in Leicestershire, battling demons in a post-apocalyptic world.Download has called it a "first of its kind e

Two Nasa astronauts are due to head for the International Space Station aboard a new spacecraft.Boeing’s Starliner will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, in its first crewed test flight.The mission has been delayed for several years because of setbacks in the spacecraft's development.If it is successful, it will become the second private

Samsung recently said it is looking to expand its wearable ecosystem this year and dropped a big hint that it might introduce new premium models of smartwatches. The company published its Q1 2024 (Jan-March) earnings on Tuesday and also shared its plans for the next quarter and the rest of the year. For its Mobile Experience (MX) Business, it could

Welcome to AI v the Mind, a new series that will explore the limits of artificial intelligence by pitting it against the most powerful thinking machine on the planet – the human brain.It can spot signs of cancer that doctors often miss, appear to wax lyrical about how it "feels", decipher ancient texts that have flummoxed researchers, predict the

Austria called on Monday for fresh efforts to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in weapons systems that could create so-called 'killer robots', as it hosted a conference aimed at reviving largely stalled discussions on the issue.With AI technology advancing rapidly, weapons systems that could kill without human intervention are coming eve

A giant 3D printer, which is big enough to make a house, has been unveiled at the University of Maine.The university says it has beaten its record for the world's largest polymer 3D printer - with the new printer four times bigger than the previous machine.The Factory of the Future 1.0 (FoF 1.0) can print objects 96ft (29m) long - approximately the

Upcoming quarterly reports from U.S. tech giants may show Microsoft is closing the gap on cloud-computing market leader Amazon.com as more businesses switch to its services, attracted by a clutch of generative AI features that are powered by OpenAI's technology. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant has beaten rivals Amazon an

Grindr, the world's biggest dating app for the LGBT community, is being sued for allegedly sharing personal information such as people's HIV status with third parties.According to the claim, lodged at the High Court in London, "covert tracking technology" was deployed, and highly sensitive information was illegally shared with advertisers.Law firm

Advanced Micro Devices unveiled a new series of semiconductors for artificial intelligence-enabled business laptops and desktops on Tuesday as the chip designer looks to expand its share of the lucrative "AI PC" market.These chips are expected to be available in platforms from HP and Lenovo starting in the second quarter of 2024, AMD

Chinese tech giant Huawei has started allowing customers to register their interest in an upcoming smartphone model it has yet to describe, stoking anticipation that the latest version of its high-end P series phones is on its way.The company jumped back into the premium smartphone market last year with its Mate 60 series, a launch celebrated

Multiple X users on Wednesday reported seeing the familiar blue “Verified” checkmark next to their handles despite not paying for either paid X subscription tier. Musk last week announced that X accounts with over 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” would receive a free Premium membership; while accounts with over 5,000 would re

Microsoft has announced plans for a new artificial intelligence (AI) hub in London, focused on product development and research.The unit will be led by Mustafa Suleyman, the London-born cofounder of Google DeepMind whom Microsoft hired last month.WHY IT'S IMPORTANTAs the primary backer of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Microsoft is a world leader

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said on Friday its full-year revenue would not be impacted by the massive April 3 earthquake, allaying concerns of a hit to the global semiconductor supply."TSMC maintains its full-year revenue guidance of low-to-mid twenties percentage growth given at the January institutional investors' conference," the world

Alphabet’s Google is considering charging for premium features on its generative AI-powered search engine, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the plan.The tech giant is looking at various options, including incorporating AI-powered search features into its premium subscription services, which already provide ac

Japan and the U.S. will announce closer cooperation in high-tech areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) in a joint statement when Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with President Joe Biden next month, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said on Saturday.Biden is set to host Kishida for an official visit to the U.S. on April 10.Calling ties between the

China’s Huawei Technologies saw its fastest growth in four years in 2023, with a rebound in its consumer segment and income from new businesses like smart car components accelerating its recovery from U.S. sanctions.Revenue rose 9.63% from a year earlier to 704.2 billion yuan ($97.48 billion), with the consumer business contributing most to that

Global smartphone shipments are expected to rebound 3% this year as easing inflation aids a demand recovery in emerging markets and the integration of generative AI attracts buyers to premium devices, a report by Counterpoint Research said on Thursday.Global shipments had declined more than 4% last year, earlier data from the research firm showed,

The tech behind a flying car, originally developed and successfully test-flown in Europe, has been bought by a Chinese firm.Powered by a BMW engine and normal fuel, the AirCar flew for 35 minutes between two Slovakian airports in 2021, using runways for take-off and landing.It took just over two minutes to transform from a car into an aircraft.Now

The EU has announced investigations into some of the biggest tech firms in the world over uncompetitive practices.Meta, Apple, and Alphabet, which owns Google, are being looked into for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) introduced in 2022.If they are found to have broken the rules, the firms can face huge fines of up to 10% of the

Memory chipmaker Micron Technology surged to a record high on Thursday after its strong revenue forecast fanned optimism that soaring demand for AI hardware would take the Nvidia supplier to new peaks.The stock was last up 15%, lifting the broader Philadelphia chip index 3% higher. Micron, which reports earnings before its peers, helps in gauging b

Reddit is evaluating a letter from Nokia Technologies alleging it infringed some of the telecom and cloud network firm’s patents, the social media platform said on Tuesday, ahead of its high-profile initial public offering (IPO) later this week.The disclosure follows an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission focused on Reddit’s sale, licensing

The first flying taxi could take off in the UK by 2026 and become a regular sight in our skies two years later if a government announcement goes to plan. The Future of Flight action plan, developed with the aerospace industry, also says drones and other flying vehicles will become more autonomous.It predicts that the first pilotless flying tax

Adobe shares fell 12% on Friday as a lackluster quarterly forecast reinforced concerns about rising competition for the company's creative suite including Photoshop and disappointed investors hoping for a boost from AI integration.The company expects about $440 million in new annual recurring revenue for the digital media segment, which houses its

Swedish music streaming company Spotify rolling out full-length music videos in a limited beta launch for premium subscribers, venturing into an arena that YouTube has dominated for nearly two decades.Music videos will be available to premium users in the UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, Indonesia

An influx of artificial intelligence startups is heating the battle for technical talent in Europe, leaving companies like Google DeepMind to choose between paying big or losing out on the region's best minds.Riding the investment wave, a crop of foreign AI firms - including Canada's Cohere and U.S.-based Anthropic and OpenAI - opened off

Sales in China of Apple's iPhone fell by 24% in the first six weeks of 2024 compared to a year earlier, according to research firm Counterpoint.It comes as the US technology giant faces fierce competition from local rivals in the country.During the same period China's Huawei saw its sales jump by 64% in its home market, the report says.Apple and Hu

IBM said it was using Adobe's tools, which can generate images from text-based prompts, to help with marketing campaigns. It is an early test of Adobe's strategy to create AI systems trained on its own proprietary data with legal guarantees against lawsuits, a strategy that Adobe hopes will lure in large businesses.Billy Seabrook, the global c

Facebook and Instagram have gone down in what appears to be a massive outage of parent company Meta's platforms.People trying to log onto the websites and apps were finding error messages and were unable to refresh their feeds as normal.Tracking website Downdetector indicated hundreds of thousands of reported outages for Facebook and Instagram, aff

Apple plans to disclose more about its plans to put generative artificial intelligence to use later this year, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said during the company's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday.Cook said that the iPhone maker sees "incredible breakthrough potential for generative AI, which is why we're investing significantly in thi

Sony has announced it will lay off 8% of PlayStation employees globally, amounting to approximately 900 people.In addition to cuts in the US and Japan, the gaming giant said this would mean closing PlayStation's London Studio entirely.In a blog post sharing an email sent to employees, boss Jim Ryan called the move "sad news" and said it was "a diff

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it will form a team to tackle deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) content in the upcoming EU elections in June.It is concerned with how generative AI - tech that can fake videos, images, and audio - might be used to trick voters.It comes on the same day Home Secretary James Cleverly told the Times&nbsp

Nvidia galloped to $2 trillion market value on Thursday after the bellwether for AI chip demand once again exceeded Wall Street's sky-high expectations, re-igniting a global rally in tech stocks.The chipmaker returned as the third most valuable U.S. company as its shares jumped 15% to a record high of $780.85. If the gains hold, Nvidia will add abo

Tinder is introducing enhanced identity checks for UK users, involving a passport or driving license being checked against a video selfie.Anyone who signs up for the voluntary scheme will get an icon on their profile, verifying their age and likeness are authentic.Fraudsters have repeatedly targeted the dating app.The charity Victim Support said th

GlobalFoundries, the world's third-largest contract chipmaker, will build a new semiconductor production facility in Malta, New York, and expand existing operations there and in Burlington, Vermont, according to a preliminary agreement with the Commerce Department.The $1.5 million grant will be accompanied by $1.6 billion in available loans, with t

“We’ve made the decision that we’re going to take four games to the other consoles,” reveals Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on the official Xbox podcast. Bizarrely, Microsoft is refusing to name the four titles, but the company says that two are community-driven games and the other two are smaller titles.

Meta Platforms said on Thursday that businesses purchasing a “boost” for their posts on the iOS versions of its social media apps Facebook and Instagram would need to pay an extra 30% service charge to app store operator Apple.Advertisers will be able to boost their content on Instagram and Facebook via a browser without paying the Apple servic

Tech giant Google is backing a satellite project due to launch in March which will collect data about methane levels around the worldThe new satellite will orbit 300 miles around the Earth, 15 times per day.Methane gas is believed by scientists to be a major contributor to global warming because it traps heat.A lot of methane is produced by farming

Two key groups of lawmakers at the European Parliament on Tuesday ratified a provisional agreement on landmark artificial intelligence rules ahead of a vote by the legislative assembly in April that will pave the way for the world’s first legislation on the technology.Called the AI Act, the new rules aim to set the guardrails for a technology use

Bugcrowd, a 12-year-old crowdsourced cybersecurity startup, has raised $102 million in Series E funding that will help it boost staff to expand internationally and finance potential acquisitions, according to its chief executive.General Catalyst led the funding round, with participation from existing investors Rally Ventures and Costanoa Ventures.

Arm surged more than 30% on Wednesday after the British tech company forecast quarterly sales and profit above Wall Street expectations as customers aim to design new chips for artificial intelligence work, generating higher royalties.The surge in Arm’s stock lifted its market capitalization by about $26 billion. Now trading at $102.11, Arm has d

Snap slumped more than 32% on Wednesday after fourth-quarter revenue missed Wall Street expectations, with the company struggling to compete for advertising dollars against heavyweights such as Meta and Alphabet.The Snapchat owner’s results are in contrast to strong advertising sales that rivals reported, a sign that advertisers are gravitating t

Krutrim Si Designs, otherwise known as Krutrim, will soon launch its first product — a generative (AI) chatbot app. The founder of the startup, Bhavish Aggarwal took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to reveal the launch timeline of its first AI product, and shared screenshots to preview its capabilities. As per the startup, all the AI produc

Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to deploy into its data centers this year a new version of a custom chip aimed at supporting its artificial intelligence (AI) push. The chip, a second generation of an in-house silicon line Meta announced last year, could help to reduce Meta's dependence on the Nvidia chips that dominate

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, breaches rules on data protection, an Italian watchdog says.An inquiry by Italy's Data Protection Authority (DPA) found data privacy violations, which the BBC understands are related to collecting personal data and age protections.The chatbot relies on being fed large amounts of data from the in

The cloud computing arm of Alphabet said on Thursday it had formed a partnership with startup Hugging Face to ease artificial intelligence (AI) software development in the company's Google Cloud.Following the launch of generative AI tools focused on consumers from the likes of Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet, large and small business

China seems to have backtracked on strict rules to combat what the regulator deemed "obsessive" gaming.The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) had proposed regulations limiting the amount of money and time people spent playing video games.However, on Tuesday the draft rules were no longer on the NPPA website.China is the

Imagine the scene: you're at home with your family and your phone starts pinging... people you know are warning you about something they've seen about you on social media.It's not the best feeling.In my case, it was a screenshot, apparently taken from Elon Musk's chatbot Grok, although I couldn't verify it, placing me on a list of the worst spreade

The Japanese start-up ALI Technologies, which had hoped to reimagine urban transport with a futuristic hoverbike, has filed for bankruptcy.Its US parent company said the move was part of a planned relocation to California, where it hopes to revive its dreams with a new business partner.ALI Technologies' hoverbike was heavily publicised - with Princ

People who play video games are at risk of damaging their hearing due to potentially unsafe sound levels, a study has found.The new review suggests that gamers play for long periods of time with the volume turned up, beyond safe limits.It says this could contribute to irreversible hearing loss or tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears.The paper,

UK High Street chain Game has confirmed that it plans to end its pre-owned video game business.The company will phase out trade-ins over the coming months, according to parent company Frasers Group.But pre-owned games will still be sold in the company's standalone stores while stocks remain.The decision, first reported by Eurogamer, signals th

The US has made the long-awaited decision to allow Bitcoin to be part of mainstream investing funds.It has approved what is known as spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which can be purchased by anyone from pension funds to ordinary investors.The announcement from the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission was accompanied b

There is a belief that each fingerprint on one person's hand is completely unique but that is now being challenged by research from Columbia University.A team at a US university trained an AI tool to examine 60,000 fingerprints to see if it could work out which ones belonged to the same individual.The researchers claim the technology could identify

Amazon is to axe hundreds of staff across its subsidiaries Twitch, Prime Video and MGM studios.More than 500 Twitch employees - a third of the streamer's workforce - will be laid off, according to a note from chief executive Dan Clancy.Amazon said several hundred employees at Prime Video and film studio MGM will also lose their jobs this

Stellantis said on Tuesday using Amazon's computing power and BlackBerry technology it has developed a "virtual cockpit" to create and test new versions of car controls and systems in a day instead of months.Stellantis said that it can now create "realistic virtual versions of car controls and systems, making them behave just like they would in a r

Apple said on Monday its Vision Pro device will be available in the United States from Feb. 2, months after it was launched to capture an augmented-reality (AR) headset market dominated by Facebook-parent Meta Platforms.Vision Pro is Apple's most expensive bet since the launch of the iPhone more than a decade ago. The AR headset starts at $3,499 an

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people.It uses the same type of AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot but, in terms of time spent, is

Google has begun testing changes to the way companies are able to track users online.A new feature in the Chrome browser disables third-party cookies - small files stored on your device to collect analytic data, personalise online ads and monitor browsing.It will initially be available to 1% of global users, about 30 million people.Google describes

Intel on Wednesday said it was forming a new independent company around its artificial intelligence software efforts with backing from digital-focused asset manager DigitalBridge Group and other investors.Intel executives would not comment on the value of the deal or whether it would retain a majority stake in the new venture, other than to say the

Baidu has terminated its planned $3.6 billion acquisition of Nasdaq-listed JOYY Inc’s live-streaming business in China, the company said on Monday in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange.The failure of the deal casts a shadow on search engine giant Baidu’s ambition to diversify its revenue. The company proposed to acquire JOYY’s Chinese

A U.S. bankruptcy judge has approved cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network’s pivot to bitcoin mining, ruling that the company could deviate from a previously approved bankruptcy plan because creditors and customers were no worse off under the new restructuring.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn in Manhattan on Wednesday said the bankruptcy plan a

Nasa has streamed an ultra-high-definition video of a cat back to Earth from the depths of space.The 15-second clip of Taters the cat was sent via laser - and fittingly shows it chasing a laser beam.Footage of the orange tabby traveled 19 million miles - some 80 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.Nasa hopes the laser tech it tested will even

Apple filed an appeal on Tuesday of a decision to ban imports of Apple Watches based on a complaint from medical monitoring technology company Masimo after U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration declined to veto a government tribunal.The U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) order will go into effect on Dec. 26, barring imports and sal

China is to bring in new rules that will limit the amount of money and time that people can spend on video games.The restrictions are aimed at limiting in-game purchases and preventing obsessive gaming behaviour.The draft legislation is a blow to the world's largest online gaming market, which is still recovering from a previous crackdown.The news

Toshiba Corp sees power management chips as an immediate profit driver on the back of surging electric vehicle (EV) demand, its chief executive said on Friday, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate was taken private.“We want to expand (production) capacity for power chips as quickly as possible,” Chief Executive Taro Shimada told a press conf

Apple is ramping up production of the Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, setting the stage for a launch by February, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.Production of the new headset is running at full speed at facilities in China and has been for several weeks, according to the report.The goal is for cus

Sony is seeing strong momentum for its PlayStation 5 console, a senior games executive said, with lifetime sales exceeding 50 million units and the company recording its best-ever Black Friday period sales for the device.The entertainment conglomerate is looking for a strong performance from the PS5, which is in its fourth year on the market, durin

IT services provider Accenture forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street targets on Tuesday, anticipating cautious spending by clients as macroeconomic uncertainty remains an overhang.Analysts expect IT services expenditure to remain muted in the near term as businesses typically decide their annual budgets only after February. Accenture it

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings on Friday launched "DreamStar", a new party game that has been widely anticipated by users and pegged by analysts to pose a threat to domestic arch-rival NetEase."DreamStar", in which gamers play as cartoon characters to race in an obstacle course, is seen as Tencent's move to take on NetEase's massively popular

Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O), and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push for open digital ecosystems in response to new EU tech rules in a move that may also take the edge of possible future legislation.Calling itself the Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems (CODE), the group wants to promote more

All Facebook and Messenger chats will be encrypted automatically, parent company Meta has announced.Messages and calls protected by end-to-end encryption (E2EE) can be read only by the sender and recipient.It has been possible to opt in to encrypted messages for years, but now it will become the default position.Critics, including the UK government

Google has released an artificial intelligence (AI) model which it claims has advanced "reasoning capabilities" to "think more carefully" when answering hard questions.AI content generators are known to sometimes invent things, which developers call hallucinations.Gemini was tested on its problem-solving and knowledge in 57 subject areas including

The massively popular video game Fortnite has launched a high-profile collaboration with Lego.Crafting has always been a core mechanic of the online shooter, which has more than 400 million players.Now it has released an entirely new survival game mode, where players will do their crafting with Lego bricks.And it seems to have drawn inspiration fro

Sony has teamed up with accessibility experts to release a PlayStation 5 controller for disabled gamers.The Access Controller is a "highly customizable kit" of different buttons, triggers, and sticks that lets players create a set-up that suits their needs.Microsoft's Adaptive Controller, which can be used on Xbox and PC, has been on the market sin

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and a major Apple supplier, on Tuesday raised its outlook for the fourth quarter on strong year-end sales for the holiday peak season.The fourth quarter is traditionally the hot season for Taiwan’s tech companies as they race to supply smartphones, tablets and other electronics

How to sum up the most important news of the year past? The obvious answer in 2023 is to use Artificial Intelligence. In that spirit, I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard – two of the most popular generative AI tools – to do the job for me.Their responses show AI’s power, but also the ways it still falls short, in this case both in

Japanese air conditioner maker Daikin Industries is turning to custom-made semiconductors to eke out energy savings, as companies increasingly look to bespoke chip designs to enhance performance.As tech heavyweights such as Apple and Amazon spend heavily on custom cutting-edge chips, companies using legacy chips are also looking to introduce custom

Google DeepMind has used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the structure of more than 2 million new materials, a breakthrough it said could soon be used to improve real-world technologies.In a research paper published in science journal Nature on Wednesday, the Alphabet-owned AI firm said almost 400,000 of its hypothetical material designs co

Global technology network IOTA on Wednesday launched a $100-million foundation in Abu Dhabi to accelerate the growth of its distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the Middle East, aiming to help convert real-world assets into digital ones, said IOTA co-founder and Chairman Dominik Schiener.DLT is similar to blockchain, a crypto technology whose pot

Google Drive users have reacted angrily to a glitch leaving some unable to access files from the last six months.Google said it was investigating the issue which is affecting some users of its hugely popular cloud storage service.The problem was first reported on 22 November by a user who said their Drive had reset to a May 2023 vers

HSBC has apologized after thousands of UK customers reported they were unable to access mobile and online banking for more than 24 hours.The bank was flooded with complaints on social media, with users saying they had been unable to pay bills or make discounted Black Friday purchases online since Friday morning.One customer told the BBC the outage

Microsoft has offered to match the pay of any staff who join it from crisis-ridden OpenAI.Sam Altman was controversially sacked as CEO on Friday, leading to a job offer at Microsoft to lead "a new advanced AI research team".Almost every staff member at OpenAI has threatened to leave unless he and co-founder Greg Brockman are reinstated.It

Investors pulled about $956 million from crypto exchange Binance over the past 24 hours, market data showed, after its chief, Changpeng Zhao, stepped down and faced prison time after pleading guilty on Tuesday to settle a years-long U.S. illicit finance probe.The deal, in which Binance will pay $4.3 billion to U.S. authorities, raises questions ove

Picture a boardroom battle at a multi-billion-dollar company whose futuristic tech might either save or destroy the world.Its chief executive, who has the ear of world leaders, was toppled as senior colleagues turned on him - only for the rest of the company to demand they should be fired.No, that's not my pitch for a Netflix drama, that'

YouTube has revealed an artificial intelligence tool that allows users to imitate pop stars like Demi Lovato and John Legend.The experimental feature, called Dream Track, allows users to create short songs by describing qualities including lyrical content and mood.Nine artists have allowed their voice to be "cloned" by the software, including Charl

Smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp posted a forecast-beating jump in third-quarter net income on Monday, while revenue also topped estimates as flat device shipments outperformed the wider market.The company’s sales for the period totaled 70.9 billion yuan ($9.83 billion), beating an average estimate of 70.2 billion yuan from 13 analysts polled by LSEG

Chinese tech group Tencent Holdings said on Wednesday it will look for domestic sources for AI training chips following new moves by the United States to restrict chip supplies to China.Tencent president Martin Lau said on a call with analysts that the White House’s decision last month to ban more AI chips from export to China will force the comp

Microsoft has said problems with accessing its Teams messaging app and XBox gaming platform across the UK and Europe have now been resolved.More than 1,500 people in the UK reported issues with Teams, according to outage tracker Downdetector.A similar number also said there were problems with Xbox Live.It left some who have bought the latest game i

Artificial Intelligence can perform illegal financial trades and cover it up, new research suggests.In a demonstration at the UK's AI safety summit, a bot used made-up insider information to make an "illegal" purchase of stocks without telling the firm.When asked if it had used insider trading, it denied the fact.Insider trading refers to when conf

Facebook and Instagram are launching subscriptions in most of Europe that will remove adverts from the platforms.People using the Meta-owned platforms can pay €9.99 (£8.72) per month for an ad-free experience. It will not be available in the UK.In January, Meta was fined €390m for breaking EU data rules around ads.The regulator said at the tim

Apple on Monday introduced new MacBook Pro and iMac computers and three new chips to power them, with the company saying it had redesigned its graphics processing units (GPU), a key part of the chip where Nvidia dominates the market.The new computers and the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips were unveiled at an online event focused on professional users

After years of debate, the government's controversial Online Safety Bill, which aims to make the internet safer for children, has become law.It seeks to force tech firms to take more responsibility for the content on their platforms.Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan said it "ensures the online safety of British society not only now, but for dec

Amazon (AMZN.O) Web Services (AWS) said on Wednesday it will launch a sovereign cloud in Europe for governments and customers in highly regulated industries.The sovereign cloud will store data on servers in the European Union, and only EU-resident AWS employees will have control of the operations and provide support, the cloud-computing d

U.S. technology giants are likely to post their strongest quarterly revenue growth in at least a year as their legacy businesses stabilized, but investors looking for signs of a boost from artificial intelligence (AI) may be disappointed.Microsoft (MSFT.O), Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O), Facebook-parent Meta Platforms (META.O)&nbs

The world's most valuable chip company Nvidia and iPhone maker Foxconn are joining forces to build so-called "AI factories".The firms say it is a new kind of data center that uses Nvidia chips to power a "wide range" of applications.They include training autonomous vehicles, robotics platforms, and large language models.It comes as the US anno

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz may turn down his invitation to a major UK summit on artificial intelligence.The government is hosting an event aimed at tech leaders, academics and political leaders to discuss AI safety on 1 November.The agenda will focus on specific future threats posed by the rapidly evolving tech, such as cyber security.Britain ha

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he believes artificial general intelligence (AGI), artificial intelligence that surpasses human intelligence in almost all areas, will be realized within 10 years.Speaking at the SoftBank World corporate conference, Son said he believes AGI will be ten times more intelligent than the sum total of all human intelligen

In its roundup of top tech predictions for 2024 and beyond, CCS Insight said that it expects smartphone makers to begin producing phones with “self-healing” displays within five years.The way this could work is by incorporating a “nano-coating” on the surface of the display that, if scratched, creates a new material that reacts when exposed

The UK's cloud computing market is to face a competition probe over concerns it is being dominated by Amazon and Microsoft.Media watchdog Ofcom said the two make up 70-80% of the sector in the UK, while closest rival Google has 5-10%.Ofcom had said in April it was worried a lack of competition made it difficult for businesses to switch provide

Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. The company’s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former Apple employees Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri. In the intervening half-decade, the firm has been largely shrouded in mystery, as it has put togeth

Planisware is working with investment bankers on strategic options, including a stock market listing of the French software group, four people familiar with the matter.Rothschild is acting as financial adviser to Planisware, two of the people, who declined to be named, said. BNP Paribas and Citigroup have been lined up to arrange a possible initial

Meta has announced a series of new chatbots to be used in its Messenger service.The chatbots will have "personality" and specialize in certain subjects, like holidays or cooking advice.It is the latest salvo in a chatbot arms race between tech companies desperate to produce more accurate and personalized artificial intelligence chatbots are st

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at curbing U.S. investment in China's advanced semiconductor, artificial intelligence and quantum computing sectors, in yet another step by his administration to block Beijing from gaining access to key technologies to modernize its military.The order declaring a "national emergency," wh

Amazon will invest up to $4bn (£3.3bn) in San Francisco-based AI firm Anthropic, mirroring the earlier tie-up between Microsoft and OpenAI.It is the latest multi-billion dollar investment in a race among the big tech firms to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence.Amazon recently said it would use AI to boost its Alexa voice assistant's

Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Sunday the country expected to receive an investment of at least $5 billion from Tesla (TSLA.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O)."Tesla would be looking into an EV manufacturing facility, Microsoft and Google are looking at data centers," he said, without detailing whether the $5 billion wa

 Microsoft MSFT.O on Thursday announced a "unified" artificial intelligence (AI) for its Windows 11 platform and four new Surface devices, upping the appeal of its products spruced with the latest technology.The new AI tool, called Copilot, will work across the company's web and productivity applications Bing, Edge browser, and Micro

Sept 20 (Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O on Wednesday unveiled a slate of new and refreshed devices and updated its Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence to attract users to the unprofitable product as competition grows from chatbots like Google's Bard.Alexa will converse more naturally, losing its robotic ton

Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.Protecting messages with end-to-end encryption would mean that they could only be read by sender and recipient.Home Secretary Suella Braverman said encryption could not come at the cost of children's safety, amid fears it can be used to co

Elon Musk has suggested that all users of X, formerly called Twitter, may have to pay for access to the platform.In a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the billionaire said a payment system was the only way to counter bots."We're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system," the Tesla and SpaceX boss sa

Irish regulators have fined TikTok €345m (£296m) for violating children's privacy.The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children's data in 2020 - particularly around age verification and privacy settings.It is the biggest fine to date TikTok has received from regulators.A spokesperson for the social media firm said it "respect

Google has reached a $93 million settlement with the state of California to resolve allegations that it was collecting consumers’ data without their consent, the state’s attorney general said in a statement Thursday.The California Department of Justice found that, after a multi-year investigation, the tech giant was “deceiving users by collec

Global spending on collaboration apps continues to rise as businesses deploy software across their organizations, according to IDC. But the rate of growth has slowed as adoption of videoconferencing tools matures and vendors trim prices.Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share by Email Print resourceIt includes vid

Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Monday it had signed a deal with Apple (AAPL.O) to supply 5G chips until at least 2026, at a time when the iPhone maker faces increased challenges in China and looks to reinforce its supply chains elsewhere.The deal extends a relationship worth billions of dollars to Qualcomm for at least three years be

Tesla's (TSLA.O) Dojo supercomputer could power a near $600 billion jump in the automaker's market value by boosting the adoption of robot axis and its software services, Morgan Stanley analysts said.The electric-vehicle maker (EV) started production of the supercomputer used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models for self-driving cars in Jul

The massively popular children's gaming platform Roblox has announced plans to launch on Sony's PlayStation consoles.Roblox has more than 60 million players a day, according to the firm, but it has come under criticism over concerns about poor moderation of its content.Other announcements include a new way to make characters, a communication t

The theft of IT equipment and data, as well as digital and industrial espionage and sabotage, will cost Germany 206 billion euros ($224 billion) in 2023, German digital association Bitkom said on Friday.The damage will surpass the 200 billion euro mark for the third consecutive year, according to a Bitkom survey of more than 1,000 companies."The Ge

May 4, London, UK: Europe’s premier climate technology conference & tradeshow is all setto become better and bigger than ever before with the confirmed participation of manyindustry giants from across the world. Aiming to expedite the shift towards a carbon-neutraleconomy, the 2nd edition shall take place at the ExCel London from 26-27 Se

Silicon Valley-based startup, Heliogen, has raised $250 million to further develop its hydrogen technology, which has the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions in industries such as cement and steel.The funding round was led by billionaire Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures and includes investments from energy companies including

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, reported a strong boost in profits and revenue for its fiscal third quarter, driven by strong sales of its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services.The company reported revenue of $41.7 billion for the quarter, up 19% from the same period last year, while net income rose to $15.5 billi

Google's advertising revenue, which accounts for the bulk of Alphabet's revenue, was $44.7 billion, up 32% year-on-year. However, this was below analysts' expectations, and the company's shares fell by around 5% in after-hours trading.According to Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, the company's advertising business was affected by the pandemic's ongoing imp

LG Energy Solution, a unit of South Korean conglomerate LG Group, announced that its first-quarter profits more than doubled, thanks to strong gains in the U.S. market.The company, which produces lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, reported a net profit of 1.5 trillion won ($1.3 billion) for the first quarter of

The move is aimed at helping customers reduce their costs and increase their efficiency.The price cuts will apply to a range of Alibaba Cloud's services, including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Object Storage Service (OSS), and Relational Database Service (RDS). The reductions will vary depending on the specific product and location, but in some c

Elon Musk overtaken as world's richest person by LVMH chairman Bernard ArnaultElon Musk has lost his crown of the world’s richest person to LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault. According to the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List, the net worth of Arnault is $181.8 billion, while Elon’s net worth has slumped to $163.7 billion . The net worth of Tesla