Weekly Wrap brings you the latest from the TikTok US ban, NHTSA, and China's new lasers. Tech Times Weekly Wrap offers the top news from last week, starting with the TikTok US Ban, passed and signed earlier and marked a significant threat to its operations in the country.
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. I’ve wanted to learn more about the world of solar panels ever since I realized just how dominant Chinese companies have become in this field. Although much of the technology involved was…
Far-right group Lehava and several individuals accused of violence targeted in dual announcementsMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe EU and the US have imposed tough new sanctions against key figures alleged to be behind extremist violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.The sanctions – announced within hours of each other by the EU and by the US Treasury – targeted a number of prominent individuals and organisations, most prominently Bentzi Gopstein, the leader of the...
The US regulator says it will evaluate Ford's driver assistance tech after two fatal collisions.
Apple's operating system for iPads has been designated as a gatekeeper under the bloc's landmark tech rules by EU antitrust regulators because of its importance to business users, the European Commission said on Monday. Under the Digital Markets Act which came into force this year, 22 services owned by Apple, Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms and TikTok owner ByteDance have already been labelled gatekeepers which control access to their platforms. The European executive's...
The London Defense Tech Hackathon, organized by Skyral and Future Forces, gathered technology, venture capital, and national security leaders to develop innovative solutions for Ukraine's defense and national security.
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.
Begun, the emergence, has. The great cicada emergence of 2024 is underway. Trillions of the insects are expected to crawl from below the surface to breed before dying off. The last time these speci
Most new features and experiments Adobe has announced recently involve AI, like object addition and removal for Premiere Pro and text-based image generation in Photoshop. Now, the company has unveiled VideoGigaGAN, an experimental AI feature it says can upscale video by eight times without the usual artifacts like flickering or distortion, The Verge reported. VideoGigaGAN beats other Video Super Resolution (VSR) methods because it avoids the usual artifacts and flickering introduced by GAN...
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Buoyant big tech earnings lifted US stocks on Friday while London scaled another peak as investors tracked a series of takeover bids for UK companies.The tech heavy Nasdaq led the way on Wall Street, adding more than two percent as traders shrugged off official data showing that a key measure of inflation favored by the US Federal Reserve had accelerated in March.The broader-based S&P added 1.0 percent while the Dow was 0.4 percent in the green as major European indices also rose.The markets had...
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President Joe Biden signed a $95.3 billion aid package into…