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A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the…
Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn says it is building the world’s largest production plant for Nvidia’s GB200 ‘superchips’ Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn said on Tuesday it is building the world’s largest production plant for US hardware leader Nvidia’s GB200 “superchips” that power artificial intelligence servers. Foxconn, also known by its official name Hon Hai Precision Industry,…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study shows that electric vehicle tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act reduced pollution and boosted U.S. automakers, but largely benefited buyers who would have purchased EVs without subsidies. New research by a team of economists shows that electric vehicle tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have…
The geographical distribution of national production for each electric vehicle battery supply chain stage. Credit: Nature Energy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01649-w Vehicle electrification is an important pathway to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The supply chain for electric vehicle battery materials relies heavily on China, a dependency that can leave the US vulnerable to supply chain…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The growing use of collaborative robots in the workplace may pose significant psychosocial risks to workers’ mental health and their job security, but there are ways for organizations to smooth the transition, according to research from the Monash University Business School. Once confined to science fiction, collaborative robots, or cobots, are…
The logo of French video game publisher Ubisoft is pictured at the Paris games week in Paris, Nov. 4, 2017. Credit: AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File Shares of Ubisoft jumped more than 30% Friday, following reports that Tencent and the Guillemot family are considering a buyout of the video game maker. Bloomberg news reported that Tencent…
The average flight time per customer for varying parameter settings across a varying number of customers (corresponding to customer request density). In the higher density setting, a marked improvement (a decrease in flight time per customer) emerges for the higher capacity parameter settings. Credit: Annals of Operations Research (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s10479-023-05714-7 Urban air mobility (UAM)…
Privacy activist Max Schrems contested what he called the “unlawful” processing of personal data. Social media platforms such as Meta’s Facebook must limit the use of personal data including someone’s sexual orientation for targeted advertising, the European Union’s top court ruled Friday. Austria’s Supreme Court had asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for guidance…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise when in 2023 the journal Science published a study that found Facebook’s algorithms were not major drivers of misinformation during the 2020 United…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is seen by some as the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has become an AI powerhouse after securing Silicon Valley’s largest-ever funding round. The company now faces the challenge of delivering on its promise to become the next Apple or Google. The funding OpenAI raised $6.6 billion…
