Cunard and P&O boosting wifi with Starlink
Cunard and P&O Cruises are improving wifi on their ships through a satellite internet service owned by billionaire Elon Musk. The cruise lines, both part of the Carnival group, said connectivity and bandwidth will be boosted across their fleets under a deal with Starlink, operated by SpaceX. Starlink is due to be available in public […]
TikTok fined 345m euro by watchdog over how it processed children’s data
TikTok has been fined 345 million euro (£296 million) by Ireland’s data watchdog following an investigation into how the social media platform processed children’s data. The fine was imposed on TikTok Technology Limited (TTL) by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) after the probe into how certain privacy settings and features complied with obligations under the EU’s General […]
Tech titans have ‘very civilised discussion’ with US senators on AI, says Musk
US senators have heard from prominent technology executives and others in private on how to accomplish the potentially impossible task of passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and mitigates its biggest risks. The closed-door forum on Capitol Hill convened by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer […]
Google takes on the US in biggest antitrust trial in decades
Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning on Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century. Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its […]
Google to require prominent disclosure of political ads altered with AI
Google has said political adverts using artificial intelligence (AI) must soon be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered. Starting in November, just under a year before the next US presidential election, the technology giant said in an update to its political content policy that disclosure of AI to […]
Tech giants branded online ‘gatekeepers’ in next phase of EU’s digital crackdown
The European Union has targeted Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. The six companies were classed as online “gatekeepers” that must face the highest level of scrutiny under the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Markets Act. […]
Warner Music sign first digital character Noonoouri and release debut single
Warner Music Central Europe has offered its first record deal to a digital character, Noonoouri, releasing her debut single Dominoes featuring German DJ Alle Farben on Friday. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology was used to create the singing voice of Noonoouri, which has been based on a real singer’s voice but altered so she has her […]
TikTok’s first European data centre comes online to combat privacy fears
TikTok has confirmed that its first European data centre in Ireland is now operational and the social media giant has begun to migrate European user data to the site, as part of its ongoing response to data privacy concerns around the app’s links to China. The centre in Dublin is the first of three in […]
Elon Musk says X (aka Twitter) will have voice and video calls and updates privacy policy
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 to stop packaging Teams with Office to head off EU anti-trust action
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 […]