Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last month, the Department of Justice filed its long-awaited antitrust suit against Apple, accusing the company of monopolizing the smartphone market. This makes Apple the last of the U.S.-based tech giants to face a major monopolization lawsuit from a federal agency. (Google also faces one from the Justice Department; Facebook and […]
Despite its success in the online music market, the company has never posted a full-year net profit and only occasionally quarterly profits. Music and podcast streaming giant Spotify reported Tuesday an increase in the number of paying subscribers and a rare but lower-than-expected operating profit for the first quarter. The company posted a “new quarterly […]
The logo for the Tesla Supercharger station is seen in Buford, Ga, April 22, 2021. Faced with falling global sales and a tumbling stock price, Tesla has slashed prices again on some of its electric vehicles and its “Full Self Driving” system. Tesla releases first-quarter earnings Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File […]
Employing scene affordance as an intermediate representation enhances motion generation capabilities on benchmarks (a) HumanML3D and (b) HUMANISE, and significantly boosts the model’s ability to generalize to (c) unseen scenarios. Credit: Wang et al. Machine learning-based models that can autonomously generate various types of content have become increasingly advanced over the past few years. These […]
Key Things to Know: Advancing AIB Technology: Ammonium Ion Batteries (AIBs) offer a safer, more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional batteries, using ammonium acetate (NH4Ac) which prevents dendritic growth and enhances battery life. Innovative Anode Materials: Recent developments in anode materials such as MXenes, explored through DFT calculations, show promising low voltage performance and high […]
Design and performance of the ideal omnidirectional cloak in free space. (a) Cloak design based on the linear transformation optics. (b) Schematic diagram of the actual cloak. (c) Simulated (I, II, III) and measured (IV, V, VI) cloaking performance. Credit: Science China Press A team led by Prof. Dexin Ye and Prof. Hongsheng Chen from […]
Celebrating its inaugural year, the Awards recognise not only outstanding women who have made significant achievements, but also male allies, companies and teams who have made a positive impact throughout the electronics industry. Thank you, too, to the excellent host for the awards, the comedian and writer Eleanor Tiernan. And we hope the evening was […]
Elon Musk says X will appeal against an Australian injunction forcing it to take down videos of a church stabbing in Sydney. Tech bad boy Elon Musk on Tuesday vowed to challenge demands that his social media platform X take down videos of a recent Sydney church stabbing. Australia’s Federal Court on Monday gave the […]
Credit: AP Illustration/Jenni Sohn Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first employee there dedicated to moderating Twitter’s advertising business when she started in 2013. Now, she’s vice president of trust and safety at WebPurify, a content moderation service provider […]