Thanks to being woefully unorganized, I just found out I’m a Google Play Pass subscriber. Apparently I signed up for the trial years ago and promptly forgot about it.
What’s more, I discovered that my $30-per-year outlay grants me access to more than 1,000 apps and games in the Google Play store.
Being a member removes ads and in-app purchases from free-to-try titles and makes pay
Government IT projects are known for being challenging, and one of the biggest currently underway is the U.S. effort to forge a civil space traffic coordination platform.
It’s been nearly six years since the Trump administration made the decision to transfer U.S. space coordination out of the military, but now the Commerce Department is hiring contractors and tapping companies for Pathfinder demonstrations. The goal is to begin implementing the system by the end of the fiscal year.
There’s very little good news in Tesla’s Q1 earnings. Earnings per share and revenues both missed analyst expectations. Vehicle deliveries were at their lowest level since the third quarter of 2022. But in the after-hours market, shares of TSLA stock quickly soared by more than 8%. What’s going on?
Tesla reported earnings of 45 cents per share, compared to expectations of 51 cents and revenues of $21.03 billion, versus an expected $21.15 billion. Typically, that big of a miss
Lawmakers have long grappled with data privacy as it pertains to our devices and vehicles. But there’s a new battleground emerging in the privacy battles: our brains.
Governor Jared Polis signed a bill that protects brain waves as sensitive information under the Colorado Privacy Act. Under the law, the same privacy measures that are extended to fingerprints and facial recognition software now apply to brainwave data. The law comes on the heels of the release of neurotechnolog
Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, bringing the total number of terminated staff to more than 50, a group representing the workers said.
It’s the latest sign of internal turmoil at the tech giant centered on “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion c
The buzzy AI-native search company Perplexity has joined the Unicorn club. The company has raised another $62.7 million in its fourth round of funding, at a $1.04 billion valuation. The company’s total is now $165 million.
The funding round was led by Dan
Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first employee there dedicated to moderating
Chinese universities and research institutes recently obtained high-end Nvidia artificial intelligence chips through resellers, despite the U.S. widening a ban last year on the sale of such technology to China.
A Reuters review of hundreds of tender documents shows 10 Chinese entities acquired advanced
When their husbands died suddenly about three years ago, a mutual friend connected Eloise Bune and Karine Nissim on Instagram. They got to know each other and became part of one another’s support system as they navigated the aftermath of being widowed—and the effect that grief has on doing everyday tasks.
“Executive functioning can become impaired, a lot of things become much harder, and there is more to do than ever when your life takes an unexpected hit,” Nissim says. “I needed s
Some of the most brilliant minds in tech believe it’s only a matter of time before artificial intelligence reaches a new kind of limitless self-awareness, but AI may need to become more aware of its current limitations first.
In recent days, a chorus of Facebook and Instagram users have noticed a new AI-powered feature is being prominently integrated into the main search window of Meta-owned apps. “Meta AI,” which runs on the company’s supercharged