Category: Tech
Microsoft blocks emails with words like ‘Gaza,’ ‘Palestine,’ or ‘genocide’ amid recent employee protests
Employees reported that internal and external emails with certain terms are being restricted
Apple abandons camera-powered Apple Watches; Project halted this week: Report
Apple’s camera-powered Apple Watches, expected to launch in 2027, are no longer in development.
Trump administration detonates expansion of rural broadband access
The president said it’s “racist” to fund projects that bridge the digital divide. The Trump administration continues with its cost-slashing, anti-DEI agenda, and its coming for nationwide efforts to close the digital divide next. On May 8, President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that he was directing the end of the Biden-Harris era Digital […]
Samsung is aiming for the sky quite literally; Building space tech is its new ambition
Samsung now wants to capture the galaxy by foraying in to the space tech industry
Tesla just lost another major benchmark, this time in Europe
China is outpacing Elon Musk’s Tesla in a major EV market. China is officially eating Elon Musk’s lunch in Europe. Market research firm JATO Dynamics said in a report on Thursday (via Reuters) that Tesla fell behind Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD in EV sales in Europe in April. The lead isn’t a huge one, […]
Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4 can run autonomously for seven hours straight
Cue the leaderboards. After whirlwind week of announcements from Google and OpenAI, Anthropic has its own news to share. On Thursday, Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, its next generation of models, with an emphasis on coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities. …
Amazon’s latest AI shopping feature produces quick audio product summaries
No need to sift through reviews anymore. Amazon is aiming to make shopping just a bit easier. This week, Amazon launched a new generative AI feature that produces short audio summaries, detailing everything you need to know about a product. The audio descriptions, which Amazon is calling “hear the highlights”, are created from …
Xiaomi 15S Pro debuts with in-house Xring O1 chipset: Specs, features, price and more
Xiaomi’s first phone with in-house Xring O1 chipset is here. Xiaomi’s first phone with its in-house Xring O1 chipset is here.
Leak reveals what Sam Altman and Jony Ive are cooking up: 100 million AI ‘companion’ devices
And they’re not XR glasses. OpenAI and Jony Ive’s vision for its AI device is a screenless companion that knows everything about you. Details leaked to the Wall Street Journal give us a clearer picture of OpenAI’s acquisition of io, cofounded by Ive, the iconic iPhone designer. The …
News/Media Alliance says Google’s AI takes content ‘by force’
Yikes. Is Google’s new AI Mode feature theft? The News/Media Alliance, trade association representing news media organizations in the U.S. and Canada, certainly thinks so. At Google’s I/O showcase earlier this week, the tech company announced the public release of AI Mode in Google Search. <a …
