Author: iMaster

Author: iMaster

Truth struggles against propaganda and censorship on China’s DeepSeek AI
01/29/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Washington — Just one week after its initial release, China’s new artificial intelligence assistant, DeepSeek, has shocked American financial markets, technology companies and consumers, rocking confidence in America’s lead on emerging large-language models. The tool caused a nearly $1 trillion loss in market value for U.S.-based companies with connections to AI. DeepSeek has beat out ChatGPT

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AI technology helps boost forest conservation in Kenya
01/28/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Conservationists in Kenya are using an artificial intelligence-powered application to monitor forest degradation and launch reforestation. The data collected by the application is also used to project the amount of carbon that can be stored by a growing patch of forest. Juma Majanga reports from Nyeri, Kenya. …

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China’s DeepSeek AI rattles Wall Street, but questions remain
01/28/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Chinese researchers backed by a Hangzhou-based hedge fund recently released a new version of a large language model (LLM) called DeepSeek-R1 that rivals the capabilities of the most advanced U.S.-built products but reportedly does so with fewer computing resources and at much lower cost. High Flyer, the hedge fund that backs DeepSeek, said that the

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VOA Mandarin: What is Stargate? Is China catching up in AI?
01/28/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The multibillion-dollar Stargate Project announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will focus on building data centers with the goal of turning the U.S. into a computing power empire, according to experts. Some believe the significant boost in U.S. computational capabilities will widen the gap with China in artificial intelligence. “And this is an industrial buildout

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DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’ prompts investors to sell big AI players 
01/27/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

LONDON/SINGAPORE — Investors hammered technology stocks on Monday, sending the likes of Nvidia and Oracle plummeting, as the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model cast doubts on Western companies’ dominance in this sector.  Startup DeepSeek last week launched a free assistant it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent

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Kenyan tech firm turns plastic waste into 3D images; boosts learning, cuts emissions
01/26/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Plastic waste accounts for 10 to 12 percent of all solid waste in Kenya, according to the United Nations Environmental Program. A Kenyan tech company is using plastic waste to print 3D models that help college students with their learning while reducing damage to the environment. Mohammed Yusuf reports from Nairobi. …

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Trump discussing TikTok purchase with multiple people; decision in 30 days
01/26/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision on the popular app’s future in the next 30 days. “I have spoken to many people about TikTok and there is great interest in TikTok,” Trump told reporters

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Big Tech wants data centers plugged into power plants; utilities balk
01/25/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA — Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else.  It’s raising questions over whether diverting power to

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App provides immediate fire information to Los Angeles residents
01/25/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — From his home in northern California, Nick Russell, a former farm manager, is monitoring the Los Angeles-area fires. He knows that about 600 kilometers south, people in Los Angeles are relying on his team’s live neighborhood-by-neighborhood updates on fire outbreaks, smoke direction, surface wind predictions and evacuation routes. Russell is vice president of

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Trump signs executive orders on AI, cryptocurrency and issues more pardons
01/24/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order related to AI to “make America the world capital in artificial intelligence,” his aide told reporters in the White House’s Oval Office. The order sets a 180-day deadline for an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan to create a policy “to sustain and enhance America’s global

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UK watchdog targets Apple, Google mobile ecosystems with new digital market powers
01/23/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

London — Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are facing fresh scrutiny from Britain’s competition watchdog, which announced investigations Thursday targeting the two tech giants’ mobile phone ecosystems under new powers to crack down on digital market abuses.  The Competition and Markets Authority said it launched separate investigations to determine whether the mobile ecosystems controlled by Apple

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Trump signals aggressive stance as US races China in AI development
01/23/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Before he had been in office for 48 hours, President Donald Trump sent a clear signal that to outpace China, his administration will be pursuing an aggressive agenda when it comes to pushing the United States forward on the development of artificial intelligence and the infrastructure that powers it. On his first day in office,

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TikTok’s US reprieve comes as other countries limit social media use
01/22/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Singapore — TikTok’s short-lived shutdown in the United States has opened a wider debate in other countries regarding access to popular social media platforms by children. TikTok went dark temporarily Sunday in the U.S. after a new law banning it went into effect. The law required TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance to sell the app’s U.S.

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TikTok’s US survival hinges on President Trump
01/22/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Millions of U.S. TikTok users are looking to newly sworn-in President Donald Trump, who has given the app’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, 75 days to strike a deal with a U.S. buyer. …

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Trump highlights partnership investing $500B in AI
01/22/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.  The new entity, Stargate, will start building data centers and the electricity generation needed for the further development of the fast-evolving AI in

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 TikTok restores US services after Trump promise to delay ban  
01/20/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Washington — TikTok restored services to users in the United States on Sunday after briefly blocking access due to a U.S. law banning the social media platform based on national security concerns.  The situation played out amid the change in U.S. administrations as President-elect Donald Trump said he would seek to “extend the period of time

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India’s ‘digital arrest’ scammers stealing savings of citizens
01/20/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Bengaluru, India — Within five hours, while sitting at home in India, retired professor Kamta Prasad Singh handed over his hard-earned savings to online fraudsters impersonating police. The cybercrime known as “digital arrest” — where fraudsters pose online as law enforcement officials and order people to transfer huge amounts of money — has become so rampant

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How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat
01/20/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

SAN FRANCISCO — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time. What’s now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged with its competitor

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TikTok: It’s restoring service to US users based on Trump’s promised executive order 
01/19/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Washington — TikTok said Sunday it was restoring service to users in the United States after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban that President-elect Donald Trump said he would try to pause by executive order on his first day in office.  Trump said he planned to issue the order to

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TikTok goes dark for US users; company pins hope on Trump
01/19/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

WASHINGTON — TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that takes effect Sunday requiring the shutdown of the app used by 170 million Americans. President-elect Donald Trump said earlier in the day he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve

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SpaceX says fire could have caused Starship to break, spew debris near Caribbean
01/18/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

SpaceX says a fire might have caused its Starship to break during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean. SpaceX’s Elon Musk said preliminary indications are that leaking fuel built up pressure in the cavity above the engine firewall. The resulting fire would have doomed the spacecraft. On Friday, the Federal Aviation

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Trump team might step in to save TikTok from pending US ban
01/17/2025 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

With a pending law declaring the social media application TikTok illegal in the United States, set to take effect on Sunday, the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is signaling that it plans to try to find a way to prevent the service from going offline. Under current law, the service’s parent company, China-based

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