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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Europe Wanted to Lead the World on EVs. Its Carmakers Can’t Keep Up
The lack of cheap EVs and the reliance on combustion engines is putting Europe’s plan to ban new petrol cars by 2035 at risk.
Acer’s new gaming handheld is ridiculously large
Acer unveiled two new gaming handhelds at CES 2025. The company clearly believes that bigger always means better, as it is pushing the physical limits of gaming handhelds with an enormous 10.95-inch display. Named the Nitro Blaze 11, the device … Continue reading
Meta drops fact-checking and loosens its content moderation rules
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul in how it’s handling content moderation on its site, taking off some of the guardrails that it had put in place over the last several years in … Continue reading
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NXP to buy automotive safety software firm TTTech Auto for $625M
Dutch semiconductor giant NXP on Tuesday said it plans to acquire TTTech Auto, an Austrian company specializing in safety software for autonomous vehicles, in an all-cash transaction valued at $625 million. TTTech Auto spun out of TTTech Group in 2018, … Continue reading
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Just Eat Takeaway completes Grubhub sale to Wonder for a modest $650M
After looking for a buyer for more than two years, Just Eat Takeaway.com has finally closed the menu on Grubhub. On Tuesday, the Dutch food delivery giant said it completed the sale of the U.S. business to Wonder, the food … Continue reading
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dLocal, Latin America’s answer to Stripe, wins UK license in global expansion push
Latin American payments firm dLocal has secured a U.K. payment institution license, adding to its growing portfolio of licenses as it furthers global expansion.
Microsoft to pump $3 billion into cloud and AI push in India
Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion to expand capacity for its artificial intelligence and cloud Azure services in India and also upskill an additional 10 million people in the country, the software giant’s chief executive said Tuesday. The software giant, … Continue reading
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Apple to label notification summaries to indicate use of AI
Apple said on Monday it would release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. “A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization provided by … Continue reading
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Nvidia boss unveils next-generation gaming chips
The announcement was part of Mr Huang’s address at CES, an annual technology show in Las Vegas.
Nvidia’s ‘Cosmos’ AI Helps Humanoid Robots Navigate the World
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of “humans walking; hands moving, manipulating things.”