Amazon will pay 15% less for iRobot as the robot vacuum maker takes on new debt
Amazon will pay roughly 15% less to acquire iRobot after the robot vacuum maker incurred new debt.
Jul 26, 2023
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Actors are really worried about the use of AI by movie studios. They may have a point
Film and television actors in the US came out on strike on July 14, causing Hollywood productions to shut down. The action has also had an impact on US films shooting in the UK: director Tim Burton's Beetlejuice 2 has "paused" ...
Jul 25, 2023
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'The only enemy is Amazon': Chris Smalls talks Bezos, unions during WA visit
When Chris Smalls, the president of the first union at an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., visits classrooms, he says the 10-year-old students know who Jeff Bezos is—and often criticize him.
Jul 22, 2023
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Robotics
A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations
A back support exoskeleton has been developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology—IIT) to improve railway workers' safety and conditions for heavy manual material handling during maintenance ...
Jul 21, 2023
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Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't
If you ask Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn't know. It doesn't take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it's silent about its own corporate ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Microsoft and Activision extend deadline to close $69 billion deal under close regulatory scrutiny
The deadline for Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard has been extended as the companies seek to close a deal that has been challenged by regulators in the U.S., as well as by the ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Microsoft and UK regulators want more time to work on $69 billion Activision deal
Microsoft and British regulators sought more time from a court Monday as the U.S. tech company uses a rare second chance to overcome opposition to its $69 billion bid for video game maker Activision Blizzard.
Jul 17, 2023
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Internet
Google launches ChatGPT rival Bard in EU, Brazil
Google launched its AI chatbot Bard in the European Union and several more nations on Thursday, entering a key market in its race against Microsoft-backed ChatGPT after a delay over data privacy concerns.
Jul 13, 2023
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Musk threatens lawsuit as Twitter rival Threads takes off
Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk.
Jul 7, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Study investigates whether climate-neutral air travel is possible by 2050
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have performed calculations to work out how air traffic could become climate-neutral by 2050. They conclude that simply replacing fossil aviation fuel with sustainable ...
Jul 6, 2023
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