Big Blue’s been on a buying spree lately with Databand.ai, a big data startup, becoming its latest acquisition. Don’t blink. If you do, you might miss another huge IBM buyout. Up front: Big data is a big deal. Less than a decade ago, many businesses were manually ent
The Tesla haters were out in full force this morning with news that Chinese automaker BYD had toppled Tesla to become the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles. There’s just one problem — it isn’t true. Publications from Financial Time
Meta has taken another step towards creating a universal language translator. The company has open-sourced an AI model that translates over 200 languages — many of which aren’t supported by existing systems. The research is part of a Meta initiative launched earl
YouTube has succeeded in making life difficult for its users. It ruins your groove with annoying in-video ads. It constantly bugs you to go premium. And it makes searching for anything specific, well, a challenge. Yes, you can apply filters to your search, b
When tech billionaire Elon Musk made a deal to acquire Twitter in April 2022, many Twitter users threatened to shut down their accounts and migrate elsewhere online. Tumblr – a microblogging platform launched in 2007 and long known as a laboratory for social justice causes and
The pain of unsubscribing from Amazon Prime is over – at least if you live in Europe. There’s definitely power in numbers. From now on, consumers from the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) can unsubscribe from Amazon Prime with just t
I watched everyone’s favorite summer movie, Jaws, again on the weekend. Fortunately, our relationship with sharks has come a long way from what we saw in the film. We’re getting the facts straight and shifting away from outdated protection m
Are you planning a pub crawl? Going on a road trip? Visiting a new city? You need a map. And now, you can make your very own. Making maps is usually something you either associate with old dudes in dusty paper-laden shops or serious people
Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells of our Solar System’s many “ocean worlds”. But don’t i
According to research, up to 90% of consumers’ snap judgments made about products can be based on color alone. Color also plays an important role in brand identity. Coca-Cola is red, Facebook’s blue, and so on. A number of companies have actually succeeded i