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Microsoft, Amazon, Google join fight to prevent famine, tap AI tech
Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sunday. Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many lives already ...
Uber revs up Canadian operations with new AI funding for Toronto self-driving car lab
American ride-sharing service Uber said Thursday it would spend 200 million Canadian dollars ($154 million) over five years to expand its Toronto lab dedicated to developing artificial intelligence for self-driving cars. The company also will open a new engineering office in Canada's largest metropolis in ...
Silicon Valley giants have become a gargantuan force on Wall Street, as demonstrated by Apple recently topping $1 trillion in market valuation. But should we fear that a new tech bubble is ready to burst? Here are some questions and answers about the sector: What does the ...
Apple and Amazon lead the race toward $1 trillion market value
For a long time, Apple appeared to be flying solo to a $1 trillion market value. But Amazon is right at its heels — and experts have no fears of a tech bubble. Apple, at $939 billion, remains the highest-valued private company on the global ...
Nintendo embraces "Minecraft," SNK offers a tiny big-game experience and "Okami" comes to Switch
Google shrugs off EU fine; damage to hinge on rivals' next moves
The European Union's record $5 billion fine against Google, levied Wednesday morning, marks the biggest regulatory attack yet on technology giants. But investors and analysts largely shrugged off the ruling's potential to immediately dent Google's business. The real damage will hinge on how aggressively the ...
Microsoft urges government to take lead in managing facial recognition technology
Microsoft, which has come under fire for a U.S. government contract that was said to involve facial recognition software, said it will more carefully consider contracts in this area and urged lawmakers to regulate the use of such artificial intelligence to prevent abuse. The company, ...
Cloud play on the horizon in changing video game world as companies tout new technologies at E3 expo
Console-makers long at the center of the video game universe are adapting to an exploding constellation of ways to play, with the cloud looming on the horizon. Rival giants Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony remained the stars, with their Xbox, PlayStation and Switch gaming hardware respectively, ...
Google bars uses of its artificial intelligence tech in weapons, unreasonable surveillance
Google will not allow its artificial intelligence software to be used in weapons or unreasonable surveillance efforts, according to its latest ethical principles released Thursday. The new restrictions could help management at Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., defuse months of protests by thousands of ...
Apple dangling more goodies while tackling technology addiction
Apple will offer more ways for people to limit the time they spend on iPhones while introducing features designed to make its products even more indispensable. The paradox emerged Monday as Apple executives previewed new versions of free software due out this fall. The forthcoming controls ...
Windows group chief out as Microsoft shakes up ranks to shoot for the cloud
Microsoft on Thursday announced a big managerial shake-up, including the departure of the head of its Windows group as the technology pushes deeper into a future in the cloud. Restructuring moves laid out in a memo from CEO Satya Nadella included the departure of longtime ...
U.S. spending bill includes bid to solve international email privacy impasse
A federal spending bill released late on Wednesday included bipartisan legislation that would amend a decades-old privacy law to clarify that a U.S. warrant seeking data stored overseas is valid in certain circumstances. The provision, known as the Cloud Act, seeks to resolve a long-running ...
