Dec 09, 2022 07:24 am UTC| Technology Business Economy
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it is filing a lawsuit against Microsoft for its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The complaint alleges that the deal is in violation of antitrust...
Sony says it has technology for humanoid robots but needs to find usage
Dec 08, 2022 23:43 pm UTC| Business Economy Technology
Sony Group Corp. claimed it has the technology to make humanoid robots quickly but would only invest in manufacturing them once it has identified how they could be effectively used. Hiroaki Kitano, Sonys Chief...
Japanese firm Rapidus to cooperate with Belgium group in chip production, development
Dec 08, 2022 23:42 pm UTC| Business Economy Technology
Japanese semiconductor company Rapidus will collaborate with Belgian research organization Imec, to develop next-generation chips for production in Japan. Rapidus, which was launched last month by eight Japanese...
Text-to-image AI: powerful, easy-to-use technology for making art – and fakes
Dec 08, 2022 11:04 am UTC| Technology
Type Teddy bears working on new AI research on the moon in the 1980s into any of the recently released text-to-image artificial intelligence image generators, and after just a few seconds the sophisticated software will...
Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls
Dec 08, 2022 11:03 am UTC| Technology
As we prepare to invest money to prevent the next global pandemic and find solutions to many other problems, science funders have a large opportunity to move towards open science and more research collaboration by offering...
Dec 08, 2022 10:59 am UTC| Technology
Weve all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. Its usually a little pop-up in the corner of a website, offering customer support often clunky to navigate and almost always frustratingly non-specific. But...
New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature
Dec 08, 2022 10:56 am UTC| Technology
Heres the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land. As humans demand more food, so more forests and other natural...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects