The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon.President Joe Biden plans to talk up the investment on Wednesday as he visits Intel’s campus in Chandler, Arizona, which could be a decisive swing state in November’s election. He has often said that not enough voters know about his economic policies and suggested that more would sup
The 2024 Nissan Z sports coupe is a very sexy car. I know because I recently spent some quality time with one—admiring it from a variety of angles, inspecting its fit and finish, and sitting in the driver’s seat. I didn’t actually drive it, but I had a good excuse: This wasn’t a real car. It was the next big thing, though—an uncannily realistic virtual vehicle, made possible by Apple’s Vision Pro headset and some new software from Nvidia.
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A judge has denied Apple’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming that stalkers are using its AirTag devices to track victims — and that the tech giant hasn’t done enough to prevent them.Apple’s $29 AirTags have become popular items since their 2021 release, helping users keep tabs on the location of anything from their lost keys to wallets and luggage. But stalkers have also taken advantage of AirTags and similar products to follow individuals without t
Several social media companies were ordered by a New York state judge to face four lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for helping enable the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store.
Justice Paula Feroleto of the Erie County Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the more than 40 plaintiffs could try to prove that Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Reddit, Google’s YouTube and other platforms were designed
When Apple recently debuted the Vision Pro headset after a decade of development in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook called it “tomorrow’s technology today.”
The company is finally getting into the competitive race of consumer tech products that create mixed-reality and immersive VR experiences with the likes of Meta’s Quest Pro, Microsoft HoloLens, and Google Glass.
If it wasn’t obvious before, there is no doubt that virtual reality is part of the
Microsoft announced Monday that it has hired Mustafa Suleyman, currently CEO of personal AI company, Inflection AI, to be its CEO of new consumer AI division, Microsoft AI. Suleyman will be leading all consumer AI products and research for Microsoft’s series of Copilot AI assistants, as well as for the Bing search engine and the Edge browser.
Here’s what to know about Suleyman:
1. He’s been a quiet pioneer in AI
Suleyman cofounded DeepMind
Roblox officially has its own creator fund, the company tells Fast Company in an exclusive announcement.
While the company previously offered a fund for games makers and designers, the expanded $35 million fund, will encompass developer studios and users who want to build things beyond games on the server—and one of the first partners is a short-form video service, nudging into the social media landscape.
“The newly titled Creator Fund, previously Game Fund,
On Tuesday, Google announced a suite of new and updated generative AI and LLM tools to expand its reach into the red hot algorithmic medicine arena. The products range from personalized health coaching for Fitbit users, to modified versions of Gemini AI to examine medical images (a tool which scored a cool 91.1% on the kind of exam medical image technicians would have to take as part of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam), and a massive, voluntary public dermatology database called the Skin Cond
Spotify paid out $9 billion in streaming royalties last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday in its latest “Loud and Clear” report.Spotify’s fourth annual report, which originally launched in 2021 following criticism over its lack of transparency, noted record accomplishments, including the highest annual payment from any retailer to the music industry.“This is everything we know about how much is being paid out, how many artists are achieving different levels of
Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk’s X social network Monday. The interview was supposed to kick off Lemon’s new talk show on X, formerly known as Twitter, at least until Musk canceled the show shortly after the interview was recorded.Over the course of slightly more than an hour, the two men jousted over subjects ranging from the political consequences of immigration and the benefits and harms of content moder