In January, Samsung unveiled its upcoming generation of Galaxy smartphones and devices, which will incorporate new AI-powered features. But it could come with a cost, as a note on the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s product page indicates that “Galaxy AI features by Samsung will be provided for free until the end of 2025 on supported Samsung Galaxy devices.”
That brings up a big question: Should Galaxy owners anticipate that they’ll need to pay extra or recurring fees
Meta announced on January 9 that it will protect teen users by blocking them from viewing content on Instagram and Facebook that the company deems to be harmful, including content related to suicide and eating disorders. The move comes as federal and state governments have increased pressure on social media companies to provide safety measures for teens.
At the same time, teens turn to their peers on social media for support that they can’t get elsewhere. Efforts to protect t
With everything we learn about the nature of dark matter—that mysterious, unseeable substance that helps galaxies to form—there are a hundred new questions to answer. A new theory about how dark matter interacts with gasses just hit the wire, and it’s leading scientists down a new path of cosmological discovery.
In a study published Wednesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of UCLA researchers created a simulation of how dark matter may ha
Meta, for the first time in its history, is giving money back to its investors.
The company, on Thursday, said it would give a 50-cent-per-share dividend to shareholders and also announced plans for a $50 billion share buyback. That came on the heels of a solid earnings beat across the board.
The company’s stock was up more than 14% in after-hours trading.
Meta reported earnings per share of $5.33 in the fourth quarter of 2023, well above the $4.96 that an
Apple on Thursday reported sales and profit that beat Wall Street estimates, powered by growth in its iPhone business. But China sales missed analysts’ targets.
Apple shares were down 1.7% in after-hours trading.
The 2% rise in overall fiscal first-quarter sales for the company ended four straight quarters of sales declines on the strength of its iPhone 15 lineup, which includes devices capable of capturing three-dimensional video for the Vision Pro headset being re
Overnight, TikTok video feeds started going silent—not as some sort of weird Charlie Chaplin homage, but because Universal Music Group did, as previously threatened, pull its expansive song catalog, igniting a “Mute-pocalypse” where videos featuring music by many of the industry’s biggest names (Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Lana Del Rey, Bad Bunny, Britney Spears, Drake, Post Malone, Fleetwood Mac) were suddenly flagged for copyright infringement.
The reason
Robocalls are annoying enough, but the growth of generative artificial intelligence could make it much easier for phone-based scams to fool people. Now, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is hoping to head off this potential threat before it becomes an even bigger problem.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, on Wednesday, proposed new rules that would make robocalls using AI-generated voices illegal.
“AI-generated voice cloning and images are already sowing
It’s about to get tougher for viewers to share logins on more popular streaming services. The Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+ trio will now disallow users from sharing passwords outside of their households.
On Wednesday, subscribers of Disney-owned Hulu received an email informing them that, starting March 14, the company would start adding “limitations on sharing your account outside of your household.” The company also revised its Terms of Service to explicitly ban p
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in 11 weeks, though layoffs remain at historically low levels.
Applications for unemployment benefits climbed to 224,000 for the week ending Jan. 27, an increase of 9,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The four-week average of claims, a less volatile measure, rose by 5,250, to 207,750.
Weekly unemployment claims are seen as a proxy for the numb
Long before ChatGPT, natural language AI researchers, many of them in academia, shared their research openly. The free-flowing exchange of information and innovation allowed the AI community at large to reproduce, validate, and criticize one another’s work. That all changed with the arrival of supersized LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-4, when investors started pushing research labs to treat the details of their discoveries as valuable intellectual property—that is, to keep the un