On a month-on-month basis, headline CPI fell 0.2%, compared to a consensus forecast of a 0.1% increase. The core CPI – which excludes volatile food, energy, alcohol and tobacco prices – came in at 5.1% annually, well below the forecast of 5.6%. According to the Office for National Statistics, the largest downward contributions came from … [Read more…]
Estimated reading time: 4-5 minutes SAN FRANCISCO – Alphabet’s Google will pay $700 million and revamp its Play app store to allow more competition as part of an antitrust settlement with U.S. states and consumers, according to the company’s filings in federal court in San Francisco on Monday Documents. Under the settlement, which still requires … [Read more…]
Gadget lovers have had their money’s worth in recent months. While two years ago I had a hard time finding five good devices for a similar list, this year I had a harder time narrowing it down to ten items. Here are my favorites for 2023. Photo: Maxim Johnson My biggest favorite of the year, … [Read more…]
Among the many deals that have fallen through recently, Adobe’s $20 billion acquisition of Figma, an up-and-coming design software maker, is among the most telling. The companies had promised that it was a way to “launch a new era of collaborative creativity,” but regulators in three jurisdictions saw it as an unacceptable attempt by a … [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy S24, scheduled for release in mid-January, continues to be the talk of the town, with new information emerging that reveals almost everything about these future flagships from the Korean brand. You can find all the details here. As the announced January 17 release date approaches, Samsung’s Galaxy S24s no longer seem to … [Read more…]
Trader works on the spot where Alibaba trades on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 28, 2023. Portal/Brendan McDermid Brendan Mcdermid | Portal BEIJING – Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu is taking the leadership role at the company’s Taobao and Tmall e-commerce businesses, replacing Trudy Dai … [Read more…]
Researchers have managed to communicate with a humpback whale in its language, which could be the first of its kind. A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, the University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation played a recording of a humpback whale in the water over an underwater speaker, and a female … [Read more…]
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Pharmacy chain Rite Aid misused facial recognition technology in a way that subjected shoppers to unfair searches and humiliation, the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday. This is part of a landmark agreement that could raise questions about the use of the technology in stores, airports and other … [Read more…]
Researchers have managed to communicate with a humpback whale in its language, which could be the first of its kind. A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, the University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation played a recording of a humpback whale in the water over an underwater speaker, and a female … [Read more…]
Three Stanford graduate students developed a project called Predicting Image Geolocations (PIGEON), an artificial intelligence (AI) capable of accurately geolocating photos, even those the program has never seen before. Originally designed to identify locations on Google Street View, PIGEON can now guess the location of a Google Street View image anywhere on Earth with high … [Read more…]