Spate of job cuts continues unabated at Big Tech, media firms
By Zaheer Kachwala, Harshita Mary Varghese, Samrhitha Arunasalam, Arsheeya Bajwa and Priyanka.G (Reuters) – Big Tech and media companies in the United States continue to announce fresh job cuts, a…
When Amazon’s new AI tool answers shoppers’ queries, who benefits?
By Arriana McLymore and Greg Bensinger (Reuters) – Amazon.com has begun rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that is meant to address shoppers’ product questions, but the feature…
Audio tech combined with AI for something different
People from the tech industry like giving big names to things that we might already know. Audio technology is one of them, a term for a range of technologies that concern recording,…
Britain invests 100 million pounds in AI research and regulation
By Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday said it would spend more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) to launch nine new research hubs in artificial intelligence (AI)…
Japan extends subsidies to downturn-hit Kioxia, Western Digital
By Sam Nussey and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s industry ministry said on Tuesday it would extend subsidies worth as much as 242.9 billion yen ($1.64 billion) for Bain…
Einstein’s latest mystery found in deep space: ‘An extraordinary discovery’
Deep Space: A mysterious object discovered within the globular cluster visible in the constellation of Dove more than 39,000 light years from Earth is at the centre of a major…
Virgin Galactic reports flight-related issue to FAA
By Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) – Space tourism company Virgin Galactic Holdings said on Monday that it had notified the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of a detachment of an alignment pin…
China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount
By Eduardo Baptista China – BEIJING (Reuters) – When a Beijing-based military institute in September published a patent for a new high-performance chip, it offered a glimpse of China’s bid…
Multi-screening is second nature for Gen Z
Multi-screening: In the United States, a significant 44% of Generation Z individuals exhibit a propensity to engage with a plethora of content across various media platforms and devices simultaneously, rather than immersing themselves…
Russian cosmonaut sets record for most time in space – more than 878 days
By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko on Sunday set a world record for total time spent in space, surpassing his compatriot Gennady Padalka…