The 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...
Legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S . unless it cuts ties with its Chinese parent company is on a path to quickly get to President Joe Biden’s desk and be signed into law. According ...
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 surroundi...
A top psychology group is urging technology companies and legislators to take greater steps to protect adolescents’ mental health, arguing that social media platforms are built for adults and a...
Instagram said it’s deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages. The social media plat...
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. The size of the settlement...
Although a private browsing mode known as “Incognito” in Google’s widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast ...
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. The ...
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Samsung could add generative artificial intelligence technology to its voice assistant Bixby, a top executive at the company told CNBC. Samsung’s Bixby is across the company’s devices, from ...
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quart...
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, a state agency...
If content creators and corporate executives made TikTok videos about the platform’s possible U.S. demise, disco diva Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” could supply the soundtrack. S...
Trump Media & Technology Group , whose flagship product is social networking site Truth Social, will begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market on Tuesday. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisi...
Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSa...
The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous. “OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said...
The number of people using X daily is falling, more than a year after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the app formerly known as Twitter. Data from two research firms and figures published ...
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Donald Trump ‘s return to the stock market could be right around the corner. All eyes are on a vote scheduled for Friday by shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed a landmark lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, accusing it of monopolizing the smartphone market. The civil suit, joined by attorneys general for 15 states ...
Neuralink streamed a live video on Wednesday that showed a patient using the company’s brain implant to move a mouse and play chess on a computer. Noland Arbaugh, 29, is the first human patien...
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 Hon...
Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, said that the two companies “are in active negotiations” for Gemini to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year. App...
TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position as lawmakers in Washington move forward with a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban on the platform. The House on Wednesday passed ...
Don’t be surprised if your doctors start writing you overly friendly messages. They could be getting some help from artificial intelligence. New AI tools are helping doctors communicate with ...
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. In a survey published ...
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 b...
TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position. This time, it comes in the form of legislation that would ban the popular social media platform if it doesn’t break ties with ByteD...
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 De...
Nearly a year after TikTok’s CEO was grilled on Capitol Hill, House Republicans and Democrats are joining together on legislation that would force its parent company, China-based ByteDance, to...
The Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile show, is a place where device makers show off some of their latest innovations. Artificial intelligence took center stage, but there was a...
Long hailed as an impossibility, harnessing nuclear fusion to power homes, businesses, cars and even airplanes is now widely viewed by scientists and engineers as a very real prospect that would ...
With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters, according to a report published Tue...
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its latest wearable, is launching with tracking features including heart rate and sleep monitoring. Hon Pak, the head of the digital health team and Samsung Electronics,...
Chinese tech giant Lenovo showed off a prototype laptop on Monday that has a see-through screen. The technology is similar to augmented reality in some senses. AR has been popularized by glasses...
Honor on Sunday showed off technology that allows a user to control a car just by using their eyes. Honor demonstrated eye-tracking technology in the Magic 6 Pro as it launched the device into i...
HMD, short for Human Mobile Devices, says it is launching a Barbie flip phone this summer, in a partnership with toy maker Mattel. It won’t be connected to the internet, making it a throwback ...
Artificial intelligence phones: these are the buzzwords you’ll likely hear this year, as smartphone players look to jump on the AI hype to boost sales of their devices after a difficult stretc...
AT&T said the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network Thursday appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack. The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousa...
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An AT&T outage on Thursday led many cellphone users to look for calling alternatives. The company advised customers to access Wi-Fi communications, but iPhone users without service or internet...
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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 war...
There are more than 13 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connected products deployed with the potential to behave as customers and Gartner forecasts that number will rise to 15 billion by 2028. C...
Apple announced a free new app for tracking sports scores on Wednesday, its latest effort to become a major provider of sports content and news. Apple Sports does one thing well: show sports sco...
The Apple Vision Pro augmented reality headset has become one of the most talked-about gadgets around, but police are warning users to continue to cross the street the old-fashioned way. The Sa...
If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish blacksmith to forge a virtual sword, you might be hearing the voice of actor Andy Magee. Ex...
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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. San Francisco-base...
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/tech/openai-video-written-commands-tool-sora/3436823/
A few months ago, Derek Carrier started seeing someone and became infatuated. He experienced a “ton” of romantic feelings but he also knew it was an illusion. That’s because his girlfri...
The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Tuesday that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the ...
Elon Musk has to testify in a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning his 2022 acquisition of Twitter, a U.S. judge ordered in a court filing out Saturday. The federal re...
The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to name a top White House aide as the director of the newly established safety institute for artificial intelligence , according to an administration o...
Major League Baseball is in an arms race. Pitching, as we’ve seen with some of the 9-figure contracts handed out this off-season, is getting more and more expensive. It’s a good thing San D...
Amazon on Thursday announced Rufus, a shopping assistant that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users search for products. CEO Andy Jassy has said the company plans to incorporate ...