Starting now, six of the world’s biggest tech companies must fully comply with the Digital Markets Act, a sweeping set of E.U. rules designed to prevent them from stifling competition. So what does that mean for us using some of these companies’ platforms and products? Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance have […]
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The UK government insists it is already acting “responsibly” in the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) and military artificial intelligence (AI), following a warning from Lords to “proceed with caution”. However, critics say the government is failing to engage with alternative ethical perspectives, and that the response merely confirms its commitment to the
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British Airways has unveiled a $7bn modernisation programme that will see hundreds of systems migrated to the cloud, and the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and air to ground customer service. Earlier this week, BA CEO Sean Doyle announced a modernisation plan that includes a commitment to delivering a world-class customer experience and modernising IT.
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The policing watchdog in Northern Ireland has been asked to set up an inquiry into allegations that police have covertly monitored journalists’ phones. Amnesty International and the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) have written to the Policing Board asking for a statutory inquiry into the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) use of
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island’s fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season’s planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks. The ski plane they study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. The latest record-breaking in this climate change-fueled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren’t just
House bill would require TikTok divest from parent company ByteDance or risk U.S. ban – CBS News Watch CBS News Amid growing national security concerns, a new bipartisan House bill would force social media giant TikTok to divest from its parent company ByteDance or face a potential ban in U.S. app stores. Scott MacFarlane has
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John James, R-Mich., tells The Evening Edit how China can take your personal information via its internet-connected cars. A former Google software engineer was indicted in California on Tuesday on charges of stealing trade secrets related to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that he took to benefit a pair of companies based in the People’s Republic
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The Justice Department on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former Google AI engineer, alleging he stole information about the company’s advanced technologies with the intention of setting up his own company in China. Leon Ding, or Linwei Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national, was detained in Newark, Calif., and charged with four counts of trade
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A small study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine raises more questions than it answers about how these bits — microplastics and the smaller nanoplastics — might affect the heart. The Italian study has weaknesses, but is likely to draw attention to the debate over the problem of plastic pollution. Most plastic
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