Automaker Hyundai said it had paused its advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X, after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts. Hyundai confirm...
House Speaker Johnson plans to package TikTok legislation with critical aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and send it to the Senate. President Joe Biden vowed to sign it into law.
Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding...
The American Psychological Association is calling on technology companies to take more steps to protect adolescents, arguing age restrictions alone don’t address the dangers
Instagram says it’s testing out new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.
Tesla has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company’s semi-autonomous driving software.
Google’s widely used Chrome browser has offered a private browsing mode called “Incognito” for nearly a decade. A legal settlement this week involving the way it works has cast new attentio...
Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/google-purge-billions-of-files/3503380/
Samsung could add generative artificial intelligence technology to its voice assistant Bixby, a top executive at the company told CNBC.
Google decided to unveil something no one would believe was possible 20 years ago on April Fool’s Day. It was Gmail, a free service.
A headless robot about the size of a labrador retriever will be camouflaged as a coyote or fox to ward off migratory birds and other wildlife at Alaska's second largest airport.
Big brands that have relied on TikTok to reach younger consumers do not appear to be panicking as they wait to see what happens in Washington. But they also have started planning.
Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is social networking site Truth Social, will begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market on Tuesday.
Florida will have one of the most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
TikTok’s extensive lobbying campaign is the latest tech industry push since the House passed legislation that would ban the popular app if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake.
X usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-platform/3496311/
Donald Trump’s return to the stock market could be right around the corner.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/trump-truth-social-merger-go-public-nasdaq/3495476/
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a landmark lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, accusing it of monopolizing the smartphone market.
Noland Arbaugh, 29, is the first human patient to ever get implanted with Neuralink's device.
An interactive exhibit opening Wednesday at the National WWII Museum will use artificial intelligence to let visitors hold virtual conversations with images of veterans, including a Medal of Hono...
Bloomberg said the two companies are "in active negotiations" for Gemini to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year.
The House passed legislation that would ban TikTok if its China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t sell its stakes in the social media platform within six months of the bill’s enactment.
New artificial intelligence tools are helping doctors communicate with their patients. Some tools answer messages and others take notes during exams.
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
Thousands of TikTok users, many of whom say they’ve built entire livelihoods and communities on the app, are responding to the company’s plea to #KeepTikTok by urging against its potential ba...
Here’s what you need to know about TikTok's latest political troubles in the U.S.
Legislation that would force China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok or risk a ban in the U.S. is expected to clear a key committee this week, setting up a future House floor vote.
A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Depar...
Quite a lot was on display at the Mobile World Congress in Spain: Samsung showed off the Galaxy Ring and other players revealed concept smartphones designs.
Globally, more than 40 tech companies are experimenting with 20 different methods in hopes of recreating the same type of energy process that has powered the sun and other stars for billions of y...
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/california-nuclear-fusion-cleaner-energy/3476065/
Garland, a North Texas city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, ranked at #9 on the list, offers an appealing option for women with the goal of homeownership.
Chatbots such as GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini are prone to suggesting voters head to polling places that don’t exist or inventing illogical responses based on rehashed, dated information, the re...
Samsung's Galaxy Ring, its latest wearable, is launching with tracking features including heart rate and sleep monitoring.
Chinese tech giant Lenovo showed off a prototype laptop on Monday that has a see-through screen.
Honor demonstrated eye-tracking technology in the Magic 6 Pro as it launched the device into international markets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
HMD, the company behind Nokia phones, is launching a Barbie flip phone in partnership with the brand’s creator Mattel.
Smartphone makers such as Samsung will talk up artificial intelligence on their phones this year. But what exactly is an AI smartphone?
AT&T says the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/att-outage-cyberattack-ruled-out/3469687/
Many iPhone users only had access to SOS mode during an AT&T outage on Thursday. Here is everything to know about Apple's Emergency SOS.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/sos-mode-iphone-cell-phone-outage/3469069/
Smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar levels for medical purposes without piercing the skin could be dangerous and should be avoided, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warn...
With connected devices proliferating in the growing internet of things infrastructure, IT leaders need to be prepared for the age of the machine customer.
Apple announced its free Apple Sports app on Wednesday. It launches Feb. 21 in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
San Diego police spoke out after footage surfaced showing the man walking across a street while accessing a virtual menu.
The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/openai-video-written-commands-tool-sora/3463833/
The generative artificial intelligence boom has led to the emergence of more companion chatbots. Similar to general-purpose AI chatbots that answer typical questions, companion bots use vast amou...
The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems w...
A judge ordered Elon Musk to testify in a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning his 2022 acquisition of Twitter.
The Biden administration is announcing an investment of $5 billion in a public-private consortium aimed at supporting research and development in advanced computer chips.
The Biden administration is making plans to name a top White House aide as the director of the newly established safety institute for artificial intelligence.
Amazon is rolling out an assistant that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users search and shop for products.