In the annals of artificial intelligence, Feb. 16, 2011, was a watershed moment.
That day, IBM’s Watson supercomputer finished off a three-game shellacking of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Trailing by over $30,000, Jennings, now the show’s host, wrote out his Final Jeopardy answer in mock resignation: “I, for one, welcome our computer overlords.”
A lark to some, the experience galvanized Satya Nitta, a longtime computer researcher at IBM’s Wat
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.
In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 on Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet rescinded under former President Donald Trump.
The commission voted along party lines to finalize a proposal first advanced in October to reinstate open internet rules adopted in 2015 and reestabli
After Meta’s stock meltdown late Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, the tech sector is roaring back in after-hours trading on the strength of strong earnings reports from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Snap.
Snap shares were up more than 30% after its earnings release and Alphabet was up 13%. Microsoft shares, meanwhile, jumped 5.5%.
There were numerous reasons for the surges. Alphabet announc
You probably saw the news that TikTok’s time could be up in the U.S., with a nine-month countdown triggered by the signature of a bill that would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to divest the app by Joe Biden. But while the U.S. TikTok ban could likely be batted down in court, an equally consequential decision has hit the app in Europe.
On Monday, the European Unio
TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S
Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U.S. received President Joe Biden’s official signoff Wednesday. But the newly minted law could be in for an uphill battle in court.
Critics of the sell-or-be-banned ultima
President Joe Biden has a great economic story to tell voters a decade from now, less so in 2024.
On Thursday, the Democratic president will head to upstate New York to celebrate Micron Technology’s plans to build a campus of computer chip factories
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