After more than a decade of leaving Big Tech largely to itself, US antitrust enforcers have cranked up the heat, with several high-profile cases underway that could radically change the way the industry's giants do business.Launched under both the Trump and Biden administrations, five major cases from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are moving forward against major US technology companies -- including two against Google that could see the company split...
Malaysia has ordered tech giants Meta and TikTok to present plans to combat harmful content online, authorities said Tuesday, after the Muslim-majority country reported an uptick in offensive material on social media platforms.The government reported more than 50,000 such cases to various social media platforms, including Meta's Facebook and TikTok, in the first three months of this year alone, the Communications and Multimedia Commission and national police said in a statement.They added the...
Amazon wants the public and—especially other businesses—to know it’s not giving up on its Just Walk Out technology. Although the company is ditching the cashier-less checkout system at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, it plans to sell the technology to more than 120 third-party businesses by the end of the year. Reaching that goal would double the number of non-Amazon enterprises that use Just Walk Out compared to last year. “For us, really making sure that we can service that third-party...
If you were to consider how big-name beauty brands come up with innovations, you might assume that it amounts to little more than marketing executives wittering on about lipstick colours.
Anthony Joshua plans to hang up his gloves in just two years’ time. The two-time heavyweight world champion, who is currently in the midst of a career resurgence, is 34 years of age and so kn
The secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities has issued a 'holding directive' on London Wall West even after the City of London Corporation's councillors signed off on the plan.
NASA is preparing to make a big announcement about the future of the Mars Sample Return mission which was called into question by a damning report last year.
Lucknow: The Yadav clan will come together in Mainpuri to lead a mega show on April 16 when the ‘badi bahu’ of late Mulayam Singh Yadav and wife of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav, will file her nomination papers from Mainpuri.While Akhilesh will accompany Dimple, other members of the Yadav family are also expected to attend the event.Though most of the senior members of the family, including Ram Gopal Yadav and son Akshay, Shivpal Yadav and son Aditya, and Dharmendra...
Opening of a Bratislava coffee shop postponed to autumn.
Meta Platforms altered its policies to permit a greater amount of AI-generated content to remain on Facebook, Instagram and Threads by labelling posts that have been manipulated instead of removing them.
Meta has modified its approach to handling media that has been manipulated with artificial intelligence (AI) and by other means. Three of the company’s platforms — Facebook, Instagram and Threads — will now label a wider range of content as “Made with AI” when they detect industry standard AI image indicators or when the people uploading content disclosed that it was […]
Meta says that its current approach to labeling AI-generated content is too narrow and that it will soon apply a "Made with AI" badge to a broader range of videos, audio and images. Starting in May, it will append the label to media when it detects industry-standard AI image indicators or when users acknowledge that they’re uploading AI-generated content. The company may also apply the label to posts that fact-checkers flag, though it's likely to downrank content that's been identified as false...