If you’re excited to get your hands on Apple’s new generative AI platform, known as Apple Intelligence, I have some good news and some bad news for you. First, the bad news: Apple Intelligence, the flagship feature of the iPhone’s upcoming iOS 18 software update, will now reportedly not be immediately available when iOS 18.0 launches in September. The company has said
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance on Friday, alleging that the social media company repeatedly violated a federal online privacy act.
The Justice Department, along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleged that TikTok is in breach of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as COPPA.
Despite all the technological innovation over the past 30 years, we are still asking the same data quality questions. Is my data accurate, complete, consistent? No wonder the issue isn’t going away: Without high quality data, enterprises can’t be data-driven. And if enterprises are not data-driven, there are greater instances of inefficiency, missed opportunities, and ultimately, financial loss. And no enterprise—regardless of size—can afford to operate like that.
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Last month’s CrowdStrike incident was preventable. Even though the company claims to have testing protocols, it still managed to release buggy software in an automated update that caused tremendous damage and inconvenience to thousands of people. There are many factors that contributed to this mistake, and some of them have to do with people, assumptions, and misapplied startup culture.
The computerized systems that run most of the world we depend on (shipping, rail and air freight
Shares in Intel Corporation (ticker: INTC) are trading sharply lower in premarket this morning after the chip giant posted disappointing Q2 earnings yesterday, as well as announcing a massive round of layoffs to get its costs under control. As of the time of this writing, Intel shares are down over 20% in premarket trading.
Intel’s share price drop adds to a
Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety, and energy consumption, my colleagues and I found.
Robot vehicles are no longer a sci-fi concept: Cities around the world have been testing
Last week, Donald Trump spoke in front of the world’s biggest Bitcoin conference in Nashville. The Republican presidential nominee, who has for months positioned himself as the “crypto candidate,” reportedly raised $21 million at the event; just days after the conference he began selling a lim
VIPER isn’t going down without a fight.
Planetary science fans are asking Congress to step in after NASA unexpectedly pulled the plug on the VIPER—short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover—mission this month. More than 2,000 supporters ranging from engineers to space enthusiasts signed a letter last week led by the Planetary Society asking lawma
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s efforts to restore net neutrality rules while a legal case brought by the broadband industry proceeds.
The delay is just the latest in the on-again-off-again decade-long history of the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to prohibit internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking,slowing down, or
DoorDash continued its long-running streak of setting new quarterly records for key metrics in its second quarter, the food delivery giant announced Thursday.
DoorDash’s second-quarter revenue increased 23% year-over-year to $2.6 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimated $2.54 billion. Total orders gained 19% to 635 million (also better than expected), while marketplace gross order value increased 20% to $19.7 billion.
Customers have continued to place orders f