Elon Musk has said his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will give users the ability to make voice and video calls on the platform. Mr Musk, who has a history of making proclamations about coming features and policies that have not always come to fruition, did not say when the features would be […]
Microsoft will stop packaging its Teams videoconferencing app with its Office software in Europe in an effort to head off anti-trust penalties by regulators. The tech giant also said that it would take steps to make it easier for competing products to work alongside its software. The announcement comes a month after the European Union’s […]
An AI drone has beaten three champion drone racers, setting a “new milestone” as the first autonomous system capable of winning against human champions at a physical sport, researchers said. An AI system called Swift won multiple races against the trio in first-person view drone racing, where pilots fly quadcopters remotely at speeds of more […]
AI experts have warned that the weaponisation of deepfakes “is only going to get worse” but the real concern is “denying real content”. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival’s presentation on AI and TV, on Wednesday, experts spoke of how AI and TV has the potential for good and the introduction of new jobs, but […]
IBM is selling assets of The Weather Company – including Weather.com and The Weather Channel mobile app — to private equity firm Francisco Partners. The two companies announced the deal on Tuesday that also includes The Weather Company’s forecasting science and technology platform and other digital properties. They did not disclose its price. IBM agreed […]
John Warnock, who helped invent the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, has died at the age of 82. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur and computer scientist died on Saturday surrounded by family, Adobe said in a statement. The company did not give a cause of death or say where Mr Warnock died. “John’s brilliance and innovations […]
Users of the social media platform X will not be able to block people from seeing their posts or commenting on them in future, Elon Musk has said. Mr Musk, owner of the platform which was formerly named Twitter, said users will still be able to block someone from sending them direct messages (DMs). In […]
The Associated Press (AP) has issued guidelines on artificial intelligence, saying the tool cannot be used to create publishable content and images for the news service while encouraging staff members to become familiar with the technology. AP is one of a handful of news organisations that have begun to set rules on how to integrate […]
Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarises product reviews for customers. The feature, which the company began testing earlier this year, is designed to help shoppers determine at a glance what other customers have said about a product before they spend time reading through individual reviews. It will pick out common […]
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is keeping its promise to block news content in Canada on its platforms in response to a new law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online. Google’s owner Alphabet has said it plans to do the same, although it does […]
