| 30.09.2023 15:00
Get lifetime access to a 26-course education in IT skills for under $40
TL;DR: Get serious about launching a rewarding career with help from The Complete 2023 Cybersecurity Developer and IT Skills Bundle , available at the best-on-web price of only $39.97 through September 30 The cybersecurity sector continues to gain global relevancy, with more than 1.2 billion TikTok...
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| 30.09.2023 15:00
Save on essential MS programs and get Windows 11 Pro for life, now only $60
TL;DR: Feel like your PC could use a boost? Give it an upgrade with lifetime access to Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2021 for Windows and Windows 11 Pro , now only $59.99 for a limited time. A PC is only as good at its software. If you're a Windows user, the time to upgrade your computer's operating sy...
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| 29.09.2023 22:16
US judge blasted for secrecy in Google antitrust case after presiding over Jan. 6 trials
The Obama-appointed federal judge overseeing the landmark antitrust case against Google is facing criticism for allowing the search giant to seal much of the testimony - a stark change from his open-courtroom policy when presiding over cases involving the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. US District Judge Ami...
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| 29.09.2023 19:30
The Flaw in the Case Against Amazon
Americans buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. But Americans also just buy a lot of stuff. This presents a problem for anyone contending that Amazon acts as a monopoly: The company is huge, but depending on how you measure its place in the vastness of American retail, its presence isn't necessarily over...
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| 29.09.2023 14:02
Billionaire Dan Loeb's hedge fund Third Point is in a major slump: report
Dan Loeb - the billionaire founder of New York-based hedge fund Third Point - is facing clients who are looking to withdraw their cash as his funds have fallen into a major slump, according to The Wall Street Journal . Third Point, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has some $11.7 bil...
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| 29.09.2023 09:00
Wall Street on Edge After Worst Month of the Year
The stock market is staggering to the end of its worst month of the year so far, dragged down by fears of a looming government shutdown, striking autoworkers, surging oil prices and the prospect of interest rates remaining high for longer than previously thought. Combined, they are darkening the ou...
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| 29.09.2023 03:58
Top Apple exec Eddy Cue defends Google default search deal: No 'valid alternative'
During Google's landmark antitrust trial, a Microsoft executive revealed that the company had considered taking a significant financial hit in a deal with Apple to replace Google as the default search engine on Apple's web browser. The trial, which has accused Google of maintaining an illegal monop...
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| 28.09.2023 20:35
This refurbished Microsoft Surface Laptop is now only $425.99
TL;DR: Refurbished tech makes high-speed computing accessible for a rate. Get this 13.5-inch pre-owned Microsoft Surface Laptop on sale for only $425.99 (reg. $844) for a limited time. Whether you want to expand your career horizons or your creative potential, securing a capable and versatile lapto...
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| 28.09.2023 18:30
Microsoft weighed taking massive loss on Apple deal to compete with Google search, exec says
Microsoft once considered eating a significant loss on a deal just so it could unseat Google as the default option on Apple's web browser, a Microsoft executive said in the latest bombshell testimony to emerge from Google's landmark antitrust trial on Thursday, The feds say Google has built an ille...
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| 28.09.2023 16:06
OpenAI in talks with ex-Apple design chief Jony Ive to create ‘iPhone of artificial intelligence'
OpenAI is reportedly in the advanced stages of discussions with renowned former Apple designer Jony Ive to create an "iPhone of artificial intelligence" as part of a $1 billion venture backed by Japanese investment firm SoftBank. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who heads the company behind the AI bot ChatGP...
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| 28.09.2023 05:00
Want to Spur Green Energy in Wyoming? Aim for the Billionaires.
If the area around Jackson, Wyo., boasts two things, they're natural resources and very rich locals. Nathan Wendt is trying to use the Biden administration's clean energy incentives to bring the two together. Mr. Wendt, the president of the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs, has spent years wo...
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| 28.09.2023 05:00
What FTC versus Amazon reveals about Biden's plan to takeover the economy
Big Tech has a new adversary, FTC Chair Lina Khan. Over the past five years Big Tech firms have been the target of antitrust lawsuits from many sources. Among them are the states, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and the European Union. Now "Big Tech" has a new adv...
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| 28.09.2023 00:24
Chinese Hackers Steal 60,000 State Dept. Emails in Microsoft Breach
Chinese hackers have successfully gained access to the email accounts of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other government officials, stealing a staggering 60,000 emails from the State Department alone, according to confidential sources familiar with a Senate staff briefing held on Wednesday. T...
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| 27.09.2023 23:35
Chinese Hackers Stole 60,000 State Dept. Emails in Breach Reported in July
Chinese hackers who gained access to the email accounts of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other government officials this year stole 60,000 emails from the State Department alone, according to two people familiar with a briefing Senate staff members received on the matter Wednesday. The email...
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| 27.09.2023 21:32
Meta aims to build a future to connect 'physical and digital'
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the tech giant's Connect developer conference on Wednesday with new AI products for consumers, including smart glasses that can answer questions and stream directly on Facebook, as well as bots that create photo-realistic images and an updated virtual-reality hea...
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| 27.09.2023 21:19
Chinese hackers stole 60,000 emails from US State Department in Microsoft hack, Senate staffer says
Chinese hackers who subverted Microsoft's (MSFT.O) email platform earlier this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday. The staffer, who attended a briefing of State Department IT officials earlier Wednesday,...
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| 27.09.2023 20:08
Microsoft exec says Apple used Bing as ‘bargaining chip' to get more money from Google
Apple was never serious about replacing Google with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine in Macs and iPhones, but kept the possibility open as a "bargaining chip'' to extract bigger payments from Google, a Microsoft executive testified Wednesday in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quart...
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| 27.09.2023 20:03
Sony's PlayStation Chief to Retire Next Year
Jim Ryan, who leads Sony's PlayStation video game console business, will retire next year, Sony said on Wednesday. Mr. Ryan joined Sony in 1994, and has held various executive positions at the company. He became the chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony, in 2019. "...
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| 27.09.2023 18:44
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveils AI chat bots at Connect conference
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled new AI products during the company's Connect developer conference. The products include smart glasses that can answer questions and stream on Facebook, bots that create photo-realistic images, and an updated virtual-reality headset. The conference took place at Met...
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| 27.09.2023 17:22
Google's antitrust showdown with US could 'dramatically change' competition
A landmark trial currently under way in Washington may well decide the future of the internet. In the dock is Google, the world's largest search engine. The United States Department of Justice has accused the search giant of muscling its way to dominance by paying other companies like Apple to be t...
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| 27.09.2023 15:12
Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps
In a WhatsApp text conversation this week, we asked Jane Austen - yes, the 19th-century British author - how she felt about Mr. Darcy, a character from one of her most famous works, "Pride and Prejudice." After a few seconds, Ms. Austen responded. "Ah, Mr. Darcy. Everyone remembers him as one of my...
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| 27.09.2023 09:48
Biden plans $100 million drive to combat drug-resistant 'superbugs'
U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Wednesday a $100 million research drive to fight deadly drug-resistant bacteria, according to a White House official. More than a million people worldwide lose their lives each year due to infections resulting from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, accordi...
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| 27.09.2023 05:01
Amazon Is the Apex Predator of Our Platform Era
The Federal Trade Commission's chair, Lina Khan, has brought her long-awaited , audacious case against Amazon , signaling the Biden administration's determination to restore an approach to competition law that has been in decline since the Carter administration . This will doubtless draw fresh crit...
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| 27.09.2023 05:00
Lina Khan vs. Jeff Bezos: This Is Big Tech's Real Cage Match
Jeff Bezos made his fortune with one truly big idea: What if a retailer did everything possible to make customers happy? His forcefully nurtured creation, Amazon, sold as many items as possible as cheaply as possible and delivered them as quickly as possible. The result is that $40 out of every $10...
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| 26.09.2023 18:24
Which candidates will participate in the second Republican 2024 debate?
Seven Republican candidates are due to take part in the second 2024 Republican presidential debate this week in California, according to the Republican National Committee. Donald Trump said he plans to skip the event and give a speech in Detroit to autoworkers. Here are the candidates set to be on...
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| 26.09.2023 15:30
For Amazon's Andy Jassy, a Cleanup Job Just Got a Lot Bigger
In the two years since Andy Jassy replaced Jeff Bezos as Amazon's chief executive, he has been cleaning up after his company's aggressive pandemic expansion and after Mr. Bezos. Mr. Jassy has reined in Amazon's voracious warehouse growth, culled from the company's sprawl of products and laid off th...
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| 26.09.2023 12:45
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin replacing CEO with outgoing Amazon exec: report
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is replacing its CEO Bob Smith with longtime Amazon executive Dave Limp, who planned to retire from his hardware boss spot in December, according to CNBC. According to notes written by Smith and Bezos obtained by CNBC, Smith will retire from his top spot at Bez...
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| 26.09.2023 10:36
'Unprecedented' Secrecy in Google Trial as Tech Giants Push to Limit Disclosures
In a court filing last month, Google argued that it needed its privacy in an antitrust trial that would spotlight its dominance in online search. "Once commercially sensitive information is disclosed in open court, the resulting harm to the party's competitive standing cannot be undone," the intern...
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| 26.09.2023 10:29
Video game performers prepared to strike for more pay, protections
Cissy Jones isn't asking to be paid millions of dollars to give video games their voice, but the actor, and others like her performing under a Screen Actors Guild's video game contract say they need more money to cope with rising costs of living. "We haven't had a raise in five years, four years ma...
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| 25.09.2023 13:21
Amazon to invest as much as $4 billion in ChatGPT rival AI startup
Amazon has plans to invest as much as $4 billion in a generative artificial intelligence startup called Anthropic, which promises to rival ChatGPT, in the e-commerce behemoth's latest move to get a leg up in the AI space. "As part of the investment, Amazon will take a minority stake in Anthropic,"...
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| 25.09.2023 11:17
Amazon Commits $4 Billion Investment to Anthropic, a ChatGPT Rival Startup
Amazon has announced its plans to invest up to $4 billion in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Anthropic. This move marks Amazon's entry into the competitive race of major tech companies vying for dominance in the AI sector. Anthropic, founded by former employees of OpenAI, will...
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| 25.09.2023 09:14
Amazon Bulks Up in A.I. by Investing Up to $4 Billion in Start-Up Anthropic
Amazon said on Monday that it would invest up to $4 billion in the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, as the world's biggest technology companies race to benefit from A.I. breakthroughs that could reshape parts of their businesses - and the economy as a whole. Amazon is trying to keep pace...
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| 25.09.2023 08:00
ChatGPT Can Now Respond With Spoken Words
ChatGPT has learned to talk. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, released a version of its popular chatbot on Monday that can interact with people using spoken words. As with Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and other digital assistants, users can talk to ChatGPT and it will ta...
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| 25.09.2023 02:00
AI bias might not be a threat and here's why
Amazon, Google dominated their markets, but there will likely be many AI platforms. OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT language model, is the best-funded and largest AI platform company with over $10 billion in funding at a valuation of nearly $30 billion. Microsoft uses OpenAI, but Google, Meta, App...
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| 24.09.2023 12:37
Google's AI is trying to one-up ChatGPT and Bing with new everyday AI features
Accuracy still needs improvement in all AI being made available to Americans. Many people are already using tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT generative AI chatbot and Bing, which also sources current information on the internet in its results, to help with various tasks, such as writing essays, creating...
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| 22.09.2023 16:55
Gen Z Hackers behind MGM, Caesars breaches ‘more sophisticated' and ‘ruthless'
About a year ago, the US security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren't the norm for cybercriminals. Native English-speaking hackers would call up a target company's information technology helpdesk posing as an employee, and seek...
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| 22.09.2023 15:43
Microsoft's $69B deal for ‘Call of Duty' maker Activision close to gaining approval
British competition regulators gave preliminary approval Friday to Microsoft's restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, easing a final global hurdle that paves the way for one of the largest tech transactions in history to go through. The Competition and Markets Au...
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| 22.09.2023 09:00
What Happens When the Boss Invites You to Bible Study?
When Christy Childers moved from Austin to San Francisco in 2017 to start a marketing job at Facebook, she felt anxious about sharing her evangelical faith with her new colleagues. In Ms. Childers's religious community, Silicon Valley has a reputation for being overtly secular and less than accepti...
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| 22.09.2023 03:33
Microsoft Closes In on Activision Deal After Britain Signals Approval
Microsoft scored a major victory on Friday in its long-running effort to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard, as British authorities signaled they would approve the deal after the companies took action that "substantially addresses" remaining antitrust concerns. Britain's Competition and...
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| 20.09.2023 23:38
20 Google search tricks, hidden utilities, games and freebies
Remember when talking to yourself got you weird looks? In the air of earbuds, it's totally normal. Using your voice can make an annoying task like writing up a letter or outline a lot easier. Try these dictation tricks in Microsoft Word of Google Docs that make it much better to use. When it comes...
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| 20.09.2023 22:43
Unlock the Secrets: 20 Google Search Tricks, Hidden Utilities, Games, and Freebies
In today's digital age, talking to yourself is no longer a cause for concern or strange looks. With the prevalence of earbuds and voice assistants, using your voice for tasks like writing a letter or outlining has become the norm. Fortunately, there are numerous dictation tricks available in popula...
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| 20.09.2023 09:00
Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It's Not.
Imagine if every time you went to the supermarket, your shopping cart came loaded with the same box of cereal. This cereal happens to be the most popular, so it's convenient for the store to have it in the cart. If you don't like it, it's simple enough to put it back on the shelf and grab a differe...
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| 20.09.2023 08:51
Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI
A group of prominent novelists, including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen and Elin Hilderbrand, are joining the legal battle against OpenAI over its chatbot technology, as fears about the encroachment of artificial intelligence on creative industries continue to grow. More than a dozen authors filed...
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| 19.09.2023 19:13
Who are the candidates running in the 2024 US presidential election?
Ten Republican hopefuls are seeking their party's nomination for the November 2024 election to take on U.S. President Joe Biden, who faces two long-shot challenges to be the Democratic Party's nominee. Here is a list of the contenders. REPUBLICAN PARTY DONALD TRUMP Donald Trump, 77, has embraced hi...
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| 19.09.2023 18:52
Florida police arrest 4 with criminal histories in connection with teen's death
Rashan Harris, II, faces second-degree murder and was released from the Polk County Jail in January after being arrested on 60 charges in 2020. Four individuals from Florida , after a four-day investigation, have been arrested in connection to the murder of 15-year-old Quashawn Burgess, Jr., who wa...
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| 19.09.2023 17:18
Amazon unit behind Kindle, Echo in chaos as job cuts loom, morale plummets: sources
Some workers within Amazon's once-storied hardware division - responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice assistant - say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and a pipeline of devices in development that they fear are unlikely to prove hits. The div...
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| 19.09.2023 17:14
Google Plans to Incorporate Its Bard Chatbot Into Its Apps
Google announced Tuesday that its Bard chatbot would be integrated into Gmail, YouTube and other applications in a push to broaden Alphabet's user experience. Google has spent years refining its generative AI without immediate plans to release a chatbot, until OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT late last year...
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| 19.09.2023 16:06
Who are the Republican candidates running for president?
Ten Republican candidates are seeking their party's nomination to take on Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, who is seeking re-election in the November 2024 presidential contest. Here is a list of the Republican Party's leading candidates. DONALD TRUMP Trump, 77, has embraced his indictments in f...
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| 18.09.2023 20:46
Verizon didn't solicit bids before inking Google search engine deal, executive testifies
A top Verizon executive testified Monday that the company did not seek other bids before sealing a recent deal for Google to be the default search engine on its mobile phones . The Justice Department questioned Brian Higgins, a longtime Verizon executive who helped negotiate the company's deals wit...
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| 18.09.2023 19:43
FBI Echoes Warning on Danger of Artificial Intelligence
washington - Just as many in the United States are starting to explore how to use artificial intelligence to make their lives easier, U.S. adversaries and criminal gangs are moving forward with plans to exploit the technology at Americans' expense. FBI Director Christopher Wray issued the warning M...
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