The European Union may soon push app-based cab aggregators and delivery riders to start treating gig workers as full time employees, and give them benefits such as paid time off, and more importantly a liveable…
In addition to Shopify, chatbots have come out over the past 12 months from Instacart, the delivery company; Mercari, a resale platform; Carrefour, a retailer; and Kering, which owns Gucci and Balenciaga. Walmart, Mastercard and…
Adobe is expecting to pay a significant penalty to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle an investigation into its service cancellation practices, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
The micro-resonator being activated by a semiconductor laser. Credit: © 2023 EPFL/Alain Herzog – CC-BY-SA 4.0 EPFL researchers have developed a hybrid device that significantly improves existing, ubiquitous laser technology. The team at EPFL’s Photonic…
Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, highlighted the imperative for a united effort involving the technology industry, academic institutions, and governments worldwide, at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) summit On…
For the past two weeks, I’ve been using a new camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants. (I promise it was all in…
In the wake of Epic’s major app store win against Google, Apple may be looking to open up some of its Apple Pay tech to mobile payment rivals. The iPhone maker has decided to make the offer…
This illustration shows the VR setup, with an “overhead threat” projected into the top field of view. Credit: Dom Pinke/Northwestern University Goggles enabled researchers to study responses to overhead threats for first time. <span class="glossaryLink"…
The iOS 17.2 update brins a tone of new features and exciting like the new Journal app, Contact Key Verification, and enhancements to Weather and Messages apps. It also has a tone of features exclusively…
The Biden administration said Monday it will grant $35 million to BAE Systems to expand operations at the British company’s New Hampshire plant, which is pivotal in producing computer chips for military aircraft. This funding…
