Category: iTechnology

Category: iTechnology

Artists Use Tech Weapons Against AI Copycats
12/26/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

NEW YORK — Artists under siege by artificial intelligence that studies their work and then replicates their styles, have teamed with university researchers to stymie such copycat activity. U.S. illustrator Paloma McClain went into defense mode after learning that several AI models had been trained using her art, with no credit or compensation sent her way.

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US Investors See Value in Israeli Tech Firms Despite War
12/26/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

HERZLIYA, Israel — Nearly 7,000 miles away in Portland, Oregon, venture capitalist George Djuric said he was compelled to visit Israel during the country’s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas and to pledge support for the high-tech sector. Djuric, chief technology officer at yVentures who arrived in the United States as a 3-year-old refugee from Bosnia

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Insect Compasses, Fire-Fighting Vines: 2023’s Nature-Inspired Tech
12/26/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Paris — Even as human-caused climate change threatens the environment, nature continues to inspire our technological advancement. “The solutions that are provided by nature have evolved for billions of years and tested repeatedly every day since the beginning of time,” said Evripidis Gkanias, a University of Edinburgh researcher.  Gkanias has a special interest in how nature

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Russia Arrests Head of Space Equipment Maker, Suspected of Fraud
12/26/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

MOSCOW — The head of a company that makes navigation systems for Russia’s space program was arrested in Moscow and charged with major fraud, state media reported Friday. TASS news agency quoted an unidentified law enforcement official as saying that Yevgeny Fomichev had been interrogated and charged with large-scale fraud, which carries a prison term of

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Chinese Chip Import Concerns Prompt US to Review Semiconductor Supply Chain  
12/22/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

washington — The U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday that it would launch a survey of the U.S. semiconductor supply chain and national defense industrial base to address national security concerns from Chinese-sourced chips.  The survey aims to identify how U.S. companies are sourcing so-called legacy chips — current-generation and mature-node semiconductors — as the department

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2023: The Year Artificial Intelligence Broke Through
12/21/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

From ChatGPT to the impacts of machine learning on the music and film industry, academia and politics, generative artificial intelligence dominated technology news in 2023. Deana Mitchell takes a look. …

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International Astronaut Will Be Invited on Future NASA Moon Landing
12/21/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An international astronaut will join U.S. astronauts on the moon by decade’s end under an agreement announced Wednesday by NASA and the White House. The news came as Vice President Kamala Harris convened a meeting in Washington of the National Space Council, the third such gathering under the Biden administration. There was

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Toyota’s Daihatsu to Halt Vehicle Shipments in Widening Safety Scandal
12/20/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

TOKYO — Toyota Motor’s Daihatsu unit will halt shipments of all of its vehicles, Japan’s biggest automaker said on Wednesday, after an investigation into a safety scandal found issues at 64 models, including almost two dozen sold under Toyota’s brand. An independent panel has been investigating Daihatsu after it said in April it had rigged side-collision

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Blue Origin Returns to Space After Year-long Hiatus
12/20/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin launched its first rocket in more than a year on Tuesday, reviving the U.S. company’s fortunes with a successful return to space following an uncrewed crash in 2022. Though mission NS-24 carried a payload of science experiments, not people, it paves the way for Jeff Bezos’ aerospace enterprise to resume taking wealthy

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LogOn: Australian Researchers Use Seawater to Create Hydrogen 
12/19/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Researchers in Australia have developed a method to make hydrogen from seawater without a costly desalination process. This could mark a breakthrough in the production of clean hydrogen from a plentiful, eco-friendly source. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more.  …

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European Union Investigating Musk’s X Over Possible Breaches of Social Media Law
12/18/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

LONDON — European Union authorities are looking into whether Elon Musk’s online platform X breached tough new social media regulations in the first such investigation since the rules designed to make online content less toxic took effect. “Today we open formal infringement proceedings against @X” under the Digital Services Act, European Commissioner Thierry Breton said in

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Pakistan Uses Artificial Rain Against Hazardous Smog for First Time
12/16/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Lahore, Pakistan — Artificial rain was used for the first time in Pakistan on Saturday in a bid to combat hazardous levels of smog in the megacity of Lahore, the provincial government said. In the first experiment of its kind in the South Asian country, planes equipped with cloud seeding equipment flew over 10 areas of

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Spanish Newspapers Fight Meta in Unfair Competition Case
12/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Madrid — More than 80 Spanish media organizations are filing a $600 million lawsuit against Meta over what they say is unfair competition in a case that could be repeated across the European Union. The lawsuit is the latest front in a battle by legacy media against the dominance of tech giants at a time when

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Eastern European Startups Come to US Searching for Opportunities
12/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Immigrants from Belarus, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries are actively exploring the American IT startup market. One immigrant-run venture capital firm is helping them find investments. Evgeny Maslov has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. Camera: Michael Eckels. …

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Tesla Recalls Over 2 Million Vehicles to Fix Defective System that Monitors Drivers Using Autopilot
12/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Detroit, Mich — Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles across its model lineup to fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when they use Autopilot. Documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators say the company will send out a software update to fix the problems. The recall comes after

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US Commerce Secretary Vows ‘Strongest Action’ on Huawei Chip Issue
12/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

WASHINGTON — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo vowed Monday to take the “strongest action possible” in response to a semiconductor chip-making breakthrough in China that a House Foreign Affairs Committee said “almost certainly required the use of U.S. origin technology and should be an export control violation.” In an interview with Bloomberg News, Raimondo called Huawei

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EU Establishes World-Leading AI Rules, Could That Affect Everyone?
12/12/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

European Union officials worked into the late hours last week hammering out an agreement on world-leading rules meant to govern the use of artificial intelligence in the 27-nation bloc. The Artificial Intelligence Act is the latest set of regulations designed to govern technology in Europe — that may be destined to have global impact. Here’s

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US States Suing Meta Over Alleged Harm to Young Users
12/11/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Lawmakers and parents are blaming social media platforms for contributing to mental health problems in young people. A group of U.S. states is suing the owner of Instagram and Facebook for promoting their platforms to children despite knowing some of the psychological harms and safety risks they pose. From New York, VOA’s Tina Trinh reports

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Nvidia to Expand Ties with Vietnam, Support AI Development
12/11/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

U.S. chipmaker Nvidia’s chief executive said on Monday the company will expand its partnership with Vietnam’s top tech firms and support the country in training talent for developing artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure. Nvidia, which has already invested $250 million in Vietnam, has so far partnered with leading tech companies to deploy AI in the

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Elon Musk Restores X Account of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones
12/10/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax. It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, who have fled X

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Understanding Carbon Capture and Its Discussion at COP28
12/09/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The future of fossil fuels is at the center of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, where many activists, experts and nations are calling for an agreement to phase out the oil, gas and coal responsible for warming the planet. On the other side: energy companies and oil-rich nations with plans to keep drilling

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