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‘He will deliver’: Trump’s plans to save TikTok remain unclear

After a tumultuous year filled with anxiety and a legal battle about its future in the U.S., TikTok may have just been thrown a lifeline by the man who was once its biggest foe: Donald Trump.

Trump’s new EPA pick wants to make the U.S. the  AI ‘capital of the world’

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to “pursue energy dominance” to “make the United States the artificial intelligence capital of the world,” he said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.

Looking forward to getting straight to work as part of President Trump's Cabinet to unleash US energy dominance, make America the AI capital of the world

Industry 4.0, meet Mobility Ecosystem 3.0

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, fueled by the internet of things (IoT), is dramatically reshaping the manufacturing landscape. This new era, often referred to as Industry 4.0, integrates advanced digital technologies with traditional manufacturing processes, creating a highly automated and interconnected production environment. From factory floors to our daily lives, sensors are now ubiquitous, connecting disparate systems and driving unprecedented innovation and advancements in productivi

Meta to offer Facebook and Instagram users in Europe less personalized ads after pressure from regulators

Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will get the option to see less personalized ads if they don’t want to pay for an ad-free subscription, social media company Meta s

NASA explores building the Prius of airliners

If hybrid cars can cut CO2 emissions on the road, can hybrid-electric planes do the same in the air? 

NASA is exploring that possibility, announcing this week two contracts to aviation startup Electra. The company claims it can meet NASA’s goal of reducing airliner fuel use by 60% to 80% by 2035 with a hybrid design that features generators powering motors to drive a large number of propellers. While this may sound like a convoluted way

TikTok users want to know who their favorite influencers voted for in the election

Influencers have played a big role in this election cycle. Hundreds of typically nonpolitical content creators have been using their platforms to endorse candidates on both sides of the political spectrum. Funnily enough, those who said nothing on election day actually ended up being the loudest. 

“Speaking as an influencer, a lot of your favorite influencers are fucking emba

Microsoft and the Vatican unveiled this AI collaboration

The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monu

Tech can help you take care of your aging parents. Start with these 5 devices

Most of us wish our parents would live as long as humanly possible, but some challenges arise if our wishes come true. While every individual is different, advanced aging usually brings about mobility issues and increased risk from things that may not have impacted us too much when we were younger, such as minor falls. The older a person gets, the more likely they will need care around the house and require more frequent observation.

Yet even though we may want to be there at all t

9 ways AI can make your banking job easier

Banking isn’t really about money: It is about people. People who have money, yes, but in order to build a successful career in banking, you’ve got to be able to build a trusting relationship with clients.

On that front, AI can help, creating new ways to make the relationship more flexible and productive. However, bankers do need to be careful that AI doesn’t replace the human in that relationship. Here are nine ways that AI can help bankers be more productive and cre

These new AI tools are promoted as study aids, but they may be doing more harm than good

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes—study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading.

Today, that sure seems quaint.

Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have hit the market that can take any piece of text, audio or video and provide that same kind of simplified summary. And those summaries aren’t just a series of quippy text in bullet point


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