(Black PR Wire) Lanny Smoot, a Disney Research Fellow and longtime member of Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He is the first Disney Imagineer to receive this p…
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Apple Overhauls App Store in Europe, in Response to New Digital Law
An E.U. law taking effect in March forced Apple to loosen its grip on the App Store, changes it had long resisted.
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google Face F.T.C. Inquiry Over A.I. Deals
The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.
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The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I.
The office is reviewing how centuries-old laws should apply to artificial intelligence technology, with both content creators and tech giants arguing their cases.
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L.A. County to Pay $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach
Eugene Yu, the owner of an election software company, was arrested in 2022 on charges of breaching election data. Those charges were dropped weeks later.
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N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers.
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Microsoft cancels Blizzard survival game, lays off 1,900
Enlarge / Blizzard shared this image teasing a now-cancelled game in 2022. (credit: Blizzard Entertainment/Twitter) The survival game that Blizzard announced it was working on in January 2022 has reportedly been canceled. The cut comes as Microsoft is slashing jobs a little over four months after closing its $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition. Blizzard’s game...
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AI will increase the number and impact of cyberattacks, intel officers say
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threats from malicious cyberactivity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their routines, the UK’s top intelligence agency said. The assessment, from the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, predicted ransomware will be the biggest threat to get a boost from AI over the...
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Making VR Headsets Cool Won’t Be Easy, Even for Apple
Starting with Google Glass, all have been plagued with the same issues, even as Apple plunges into the market with its Vision Pro.
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Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in implausible situations
Enlarge / Still images of AI-generated video examples provided by Google for its Lumiere video synthesis model. (credit: Google) On Tuesday, Google announced Lumiere, an AI video generator that it calls “a space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation” in the accompanying preprint paper. But let’s not kid ourselves: It does a great job at...