Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and programmers a peek into its workings and the ability to suggest modifications to the algorithm. The company said in a blog post it uploaded the code in two repositories on code-sharing platform Github.
Apple won its appeal against the decision by Britain’s antitrust regulator to launch an investigation into its mobile browser and cloud gaming services, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled on Friday. Regulator the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) opened a full investigation in November into the dominance of Apple and Alphabet‘s Google in mobile browsers, and
The U.S. has placed major chip export restrictions on Huawei and Chinese firms over the past few years. This has cut off companies’ access to critical semiconductors. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s chip industry will be “reborn” as a result of U.S. sanctions, a top boss at Huawei said Friday, as the
Elon Musk on Friday defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn’t follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots. Musk made his prediction on the eve of Twitter’s April 1 ultimatum that verified accounts with the cherished blue tick that had not forked over
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla Semi Courtesy: Tesla Tesla has issued a voluntary recall on the Semi, a first since the company began deliveries of the heavy-duty electric trucks to customers in December 2022. According to recall filings posted on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
South Korea’s Samsung is considering setting up a chip test line in Japan, five people said, to bolster its advanced packaging business and forge closer ties with Japanese makers of semiconductor equipment and materials. It would be the first such test line for Samsung, the world’s largest maker of memory chips, in Japan. It would
Japan said on Friday it will restrict exports of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, aligning its technology trade controls with a US push to curb China’s ability to make advanced chips. Japan, home to major global chip equipment makers such as Nikon and Tokyo Electron, did not specify China as the target of the
Apple on Tuesday launched its “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) service in the US, a move that threatens to disrupt the fintech sector dominated by firms like Affirm Holdings and Swedish payments company Klarna. The service, Apple Pay Later, will allow users to split purchases into four payments spread over six weeks with no interest
A US court has sanctioned Google for a second time in recent days, after a judge in a decision unsealed on Wednesday said the Alphabet unit took too long to comply with a ruling last year in a data-privacy class action. The order from US Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen in San Jose, California, stems
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla vehicles parked outside a home with a Tesla Solar Roof on Weems Street in Boca Chica Village, Texas, U.S., on Monday, June 21, 2021. Veronica G. Cardenas | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla has only installed 3,000 of its Solar Roof systems in the
With Samsung’s Galaxy S23 series now official, the company’s upcoming foldables have begun to appear in numerous leaks. Tagged as the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5, the two foldables are bound to get some competition this year from Chinese brand’s as Oppo has already launched its first clamshell foldable, the Find
Mar 30, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Malware A Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group tracked as RedGolf has been attributed to the use of a custom Windows and Linux backdoor called KEYPLUG. “RedGolf is a particularly prolific Chinese state-sponsored threat actor group that has likely been active for many years against a wide range of industries
PlayStation has announced the monthly free games for April 2023 for PlayStation Plus subscribers. The three free titles, which will be available on PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Deluxe/ Premium tiers starting April 4 through May 1, include Meet Your Maker, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and Tails of Iron. The month’s free games lineup from
The Pakistan government’s official Twitter account has been withheld in India. When anyone tries to access the Twitter account of the Pakistan government, it says, “Account Withheld @GovtofPakistan‘s account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand.” This is reportedly the third time when Pakistan’s Twitter account has been restricted to be
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Cook during WWDC 2022 Event Source: Apple Apple’s widely anticipated mixed-reality headset may not be ready in time for the company’s June WWDC event, top Apple analyst, TFI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo, wrote on Twitter Thursday. Kuo tweeted that the company wasn’t optimistic that the
iPhone 15 series is said to release later this year, and the anticipated lineup is likely to consist of four models — the base iPhone 15, the iPhone 15 Plus, the iPhone 15 Pro, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which could reportedly launch as the ‘Ultra’ model this year. Although Apple is yet to
Microsoft is selling advertising in responses given by its Bing chat search engine, highlighting a potential revenue model for an artificial intelligence tool the company says has attracted 100 million average daily users. “We recently met with some of our partners to begin exploring ideas and to get feedback on how we can continue to
Alphabet’s Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-competitive cloud computing practices and criticised imminent deals with European cloud vendors, saying these do not solve broader concerns about its licensing terms. In Google Cloud’s first public comments on Microsoft and its European deals its Vice President Amit Zavery told Reuters the company has raised the issue
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Google is reshuffling the reporting structure of its virtual assistant unit — called Assistant — to focus more on Bard,
Samsung Galaxy A24 has been officially confirmed to launch in Turkey. The South Korean tech giant is expanding its A-series of Galaxy smartphone devices. The company recently launched the Galaxy A14, Galaxy A34 5G, and Galaxy A54 5G smartphones. Before any official confirmation, the Galaxy A24 4G was spotted on several certification websites and databases,