• Android 15: The tech used for Google Pay may be used to charge your devices

    NFC, the tech behind Google Pay, may be used to charge Android users' devices in the future.

  • Women participation in tech roles in non-tech sectors to grow by 24.3% by 2027: report

    Women's participation in technology roles in non-tech businesses is expected to grow by nearly a quarter by 2027 across all levels, including freshers, junior, mid-senior, leadership, and C-Suite levels, a report said on Wednesday. The tech women's participation rate in non-tech industries stood at 19.4 lakh workforce in 2023, which is expected to grow by 24.3% to 24.1 lakh employees by 2027, TeamLease Digital's report - Women at the Heart of India's Digital Evolution, has revealed. With only...

  • Adobe's new upscaling tech uses AI to sharpen video

    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...

  • How Using Smart Tech at Home Can Lower Your Insurance Bills

    Since smart tech can work to prevent the kind of costly events that result in insurance claims, it makes sense that there’s an emerging trend of insurance companies offering discounts for specific smart tech in the house.

  • The Sandbox: Building a Tech Friendly Regime for a Growing Crypto Industry

    On April 3rd, the Bank of England and FCA jointly published a consultation which marked the next step in opening a Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) in the UK. The DSS is key to supporting responsible innovation in the UK. It allows market participants to try out new business models that are not yet permitted under current regulations, while simultaneously enabling regulators to identify where legislation and policies may need to change.

  • Tech Firm Looks to Use AI-Powered Robots for Road Repairs

    Road repairs could soon be AI-powered with tech firm Robotiz3d's new autonomous robots. Artificial intelligence-powered road repairs are now a reality, thanks to a tech firm's three new technologies under the Autonomous Road Repair System (ARRES), as reported by Fox News.

  • UI study finds cannabis use among older adults is growing

    While she was out for a walk a few years ago, Duveen Robinson, a 90-year-old Iowa City resident, took a nasty tumble when she stepped in a pothole. Robison chipped off an inch-long piece of her kneecap and was hardly able to walk. Later that day, however, she used a topical CBD and THC ointment

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    Tech's earnings bonanza this week shines spotlight on growing troubles at Tesla, Google

    This quarter's earnings reports from the U.S. tech giants coincide with a mountain of drama that the companies are facing.

  • A New Camera Using Both Nikon and RED Tech Will Come in 'A Few Years'

    The ink is still wet on Nikon's acquisition of RED Cinema, but the two teams are already meeting and working on integrating their technologies. [Read More]

  • People are calling $700 AI gadget the worst piece of tech they've ever used

    Humane's tiny, $700 wearable computer, AI Pin, vowed to be a virtual assistant. But savage reviews of the device have blasted the AI for giving incorrect answers. One reviewer: 'I'm hard-pressed to name a single thing it's genuinely good at'. READ MORE: New transparent TVs and

  • Apple's First AI Features in iOS 18 Reportedly Won't Use Cloud Servers

    Apple's first set of new AI features planned for iOS 18 will not rely on cloud servers at all, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "As the world awaits Apple's big AI unveiling on June 10, it looks like the initial wave of features will work entirely on device," said Gurman, in the Q&A section of his Power On newsletter today. "That means there's no cloud processing component to the company's large language model, the software that powers the new capabilities." Apple will probably...

  • Tech’s earnings bonanza this week shines spotlight on growing troubles at Tesla, Google

    As tech’s behemoths get set to report earnings this week, they do so facing a mountain of drama. At Google, there have been protests and restructurings, while Tesla just announced mass layoffs, price cuts and a Cybertruck recall. Microsoft’s OpenAI relationship faces fresh scrutiny and Facebook parent Meta’s major rollout of its new artificial intelligence assistant last week didn’t go so well. The […]