Category: iNews

Category: iNews

Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Kicks Off in Finland 
04/16/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Information in this article is confirmed with other sources and may be used without attribution to The Associated Press in broadcasts — websites still must use the attribution. The News Center has no plans currently to match it.   (With AP Photo)    Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Kicks Off in Finland    Apr 16, 2023

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First Test Flight of SpaceX’s Big Starship
04/16/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship. It’s the biggest and mightiest rocket ever built, with the lofty goal of ferrying people to the moon and Mars. Jutting almost 120 meters into the South Texas sky, Starship could blast off as

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New US Proposal on Vehicle Emissions Seeks to Boost EV Sales
04/14/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week released proposals for the most aggressive vehicle emission standards in the country’s history, with the expectation that electric cars will account for two of every three cars being produced in the U.S. by 2032. Keith Kocinski reports. …

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First Image of Black Hole Gets Makeover With AI 
04/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The first image of a black hole captured four years ago revealed a fuzzy, fiery doughnut-shaped object. Now, researchers have used artificial intelligence to give that cosmic beauty shot a touch-up. The updated picture, published Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, keeps the original shape, but with a skinnier ring and a sharper resolution. The

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New US Electric Vehicle Rule Would Speed Supply Chain Changes
04/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

A Biden administration proposal would force U.S. automakers to sharply increase their production of electric cars and trucks over the next decade, lending greater urgency to the effort to build raw material supply chains that reduce the industry’s dependence on China. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a proposed rule that would place stricter

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ChatGPT Could Return to Italy if OpenAI Complies With Rules
04/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

ChatGPT could return to Italy soon if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who had imposed a temporary ban on the artificial intelligence software over privacy worries. The Italian data protection authority on Wednesday outlined a raft of requirements that OpenAI will have to satisfy by April 30 for the ban on

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In US, National Public Radio Abandons Twitter
04/12/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Broadcaster National Public Radio said Wednesday it would no longer post its news content on 52 official Twitter accounts in protest of the social media site labeling the independent U.S. news agency as “government-funded media.”  NPR is the first major news organization to go silent on Twitter. The social media platform owned by entrepreneur Elon

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Musk Says Owning Twitter ‘Painful’ But Needed To Be Done
04/12/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year. In an interview also streamed live late Tuesday on Twitter Spaces, Musk discussed his ownership of the online platform, including layoffs, misinformation and

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China Unveils Proposed New Law Overseeing Artificial Intelligence Products
04/11/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

China’s internet regulator has unveiled a proposed law that will require makers of new artificial intelligence, or AI, products to submit to security assessments before public release. The draft law released Tuesday by the Cyberspace Administration of China says that content generated by future AI products must reflect the country’s “core socialist values” and not

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Australia Aims to Make Industry More Resilient Against Cyberattacks
04/11/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The Australian government is asking major banks and other institutions to take part in ‘wargaming’ exercises to test how they would respond to cyber-attacks. It follows recent mass data theft attacks on several large companies, which compromised the data of millions of Australians.      Australia is preparing for potential cyberattacks on critical services including hospitals,

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News Presenter Generated with AI Appears in Kuwait
04/11/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

A Kuwaiti media outlet has unveiled a virtual news presenter generated using artificial intelligence, with plans for it to read online bulletins.    “Fedha” appeared on the Twitter account of the Kuwait News website Saturday as an image of a woman, her light-colored hair uncovered, wearing a black jacket and white T-shirt.    “I’m Fedha, the first

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Reports: Tesla Plans Shanghai Factory for Power Storage
04/09/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Electric car maker Tesla Inc. plans to build a factory in Shanghai to produce power-storage devices for sale worldwide, state media reported Sunday. Plans call for annual production of 10,000 Megapack units, according to the Xinhua News Agency and state television. They said the company made the announcement at a signing ceremony in Shanghai, where

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Mayor in Australia Ready to Sue over Alleged AI Chatbot Defamation
04/09/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

A mayor in Australia’s Victoria state said Friday he may sue the artificial intelligence writing tool ChatGPT after it falsely claimed he’d served time in prison for bribery.  Hepburn Shire Council Mayor Brian Hood was incorrectly identified as the guilty party in a corruption case in the early 2000s. Brian Hood was the whistleblower in

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Samsung Cutting Memory Chip Production as Profit Slides
04/07/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Samsung Electronics said Friday it is cutting the production of its computer memory chips in an apparent effort to reduce inventory as it forecasted another quarter of sluggish profit.  The South Korean technology giant, in a regulatory filing, said it has been reducing the production of certain memory products by unspecified “meaningful levels” to optimize

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Artemis Crew Looking Forward to Restarting NASA’s Moon Program
04/07/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The last time humans were on the moon was in 1972. Now NASA is preparing to set foot back on the moon in 2025, if all goes as scheduled. VOA’s Alexander Kruglyakov spoke with the crew that will take part in the first of those missions: a planned flight around the Moon in November 2024.

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FBI Targets Users in Crackdown on Darknet Marketplaces
04/07/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Darknet users, beware: If you frequent criminal marketplaces in the internet’s underbelly, think again. Chances are you’re in the FBI’s crosshairs. The FBI is cracking down on sites that peddle everything from guns to stolen personal data, and it is not only going after the sites’ administrators but also their users. A recent surge in

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Is Social Media Bad for Kids? What We Know
04/05/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The push to legally restrict children’s access to social media in the United States is gaining steam. So far, however, researchers say there are both negative and positive aspects of minors using the platforms, as VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias found out. …

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Biden Eyes AI Dangers, Says Tech Companies Must Make Sure Products are Safe
04/05/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence (AI) is dangerous, but underscored that technology companies had a responsibility to ensure their products were safe before making them public.  Biden told science and technology advisers that AI could help in addressing disease and climate change, but it was

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US Chip Controls Threaten China’s Technology Ambitions
04/05/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Furious at U.S. efforts that cut off access to technology to make advanced computer chips, China’s leaders appear to be struggling to figure out how to retaliate without hurting their own ambitions in telecoms, artificial intelligence and other industries. Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government sees the chips — which are used in everything from phones

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US-Trained Woman Teaching Digital Skills to Children in Rural Kenya
04/04/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The digital divide is one of the biggest challenges to education in sub-Saharan Africa, where the United Nations says nearly 90% of students lack access to household computers, and 82% to the internet. In Kenya, the aid group TechLit Africa aims to change that by building scores of computer labs. Juma Majanga reports from Mogotio,

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Ukraine’s Destruction Brought to Life Through Virtual Reality Exhibit
04/04/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

An exhibition currently on display in Poland uses virtual reality to show the level of destruction Russia’s war has brought on Ukraine. For some visitors, the VR videos that can be viewed at the “Through the War” display have been overwhelming. Lesia Bakalets reports from Warsaw. Daniil Batushchak. …

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TikTok Fined $15.9M by UK Watchdog for Misuse of Kids’ Data
04/04/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Britain’s privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty Tuesday for misusing children’s data and violating other protections for users’ personal information. The Information Commissioner’s Office said it issued a fine of $15.9 million to the short-video sharing app, which is wildly popular with young people. It’s the latest example of tighter scrutiny that TikTok

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