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What ’80s movies got right and wrong about living with AI

Many of us seemed to have already fallen in love with our iPhones well before Spike Jonze’s techno-love story Her took that concept ">all the way. On its tenth anniversary last fall, Her attracted plenty of ">fresh analysis about its prophe

Raspberry Pi is going public on Friday. Its biggest fans are dreading it

When Raspberry Pi launched, in 2012, it was a tech tinkerer’s dream come true.

With a price of just $35, the credit card-sized computer was an inexpensive way for students to learn new programming languages, but it quickly became a platform for all kinds of creative tech projects. With

Space startups’ biggest challenge for takeoff: Getting regulatory approval

SpaceX’s next rideshare launch is almost upon us, and that means satellite companies have spent the last quarter scrambling to obtain the government permission they need to operate their spacecraft—a challenge that can take them by surprise.

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Take Aethero, a firm developing edge computing in space. It’s launching a

Biden administration plans to award Rocket Lab $23.9 million to produce satellite and spacecraft chips

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it planned to award Rocket Lab $23.9 million to dramatically boost the production of compound semiconductors used in satellites and spacecraft.

The award for Rocket Lab unit SolAero Technologies Corp. “would help create a more robust and resilient supply of space-grade solar cells that power spacecrafts and satel

Ancestry.com is using AI to make a searchable database for Black family trees

Ancestry.com is releasing a new collection of searchable newspaper articles published before the 1900s that contain details on formerly enslaved people in the U.S., the company announced Tuesday.

The database, which is free to access, could help Black Americans discover more information about their families’ pasts. The tool

WeWork exits bankruptcy and names new CEO after Tolley steps down

WeWork CEO David Tolley stepped down after the flexible workspace provider emerged from bankruptcy on Tuesday, bookending a months-long restructuring process that featured a strategy revamp and exits from several locations.

The company named commercial real estate industry veteran John Santora as its new to

Apple’s top software engineer on AI: “We wanted to establish an entirely different bar” (Exclusive)

Artificial intelligence has wowed me, but it was never something I wanted to use daily, especially because it required a cumbersome number of apps and subscriptions, depending on the task.

And then there was the privacy issue. Using AI even for scheduling or communicating with colleagues entailed blindly trusting that big, data-hungry AI companies wouldn’t a

Should Big Tech worry about India’s antitrust reform?

India’s proposed EU-like antitrust law will pose a fresh regulatory challenge for tech firms including Apple, Google and Meta, laying out str

Will my iPhone, iPad, and Mac run the new Apple Intelligence AI? Full list of supported devices

Yesterday, Apple jumped headfirst into the AI race. In addition to introducing its new operating systems, including iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, the company unveiled Apple Intelligence—its implementation of artificial intelligence.

Apple Intelligence isn’t a generative AI app or just a chatbot like ChatGPT. Rather, it’s an integrated layer of artificial intelligence embedded in Apple’s upcoming operating systems


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