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Listen to article Samsung has resumed the rollout of its One UI 7 update for the Galaxy S24 series, following a brief suspension caused by a major software bug. The update, which introduces Android 15 to the Galaxy S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra, was originally launched on April 7 but was pulled just a week later after … Read more
Listen to article Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that users are spending significantly less time on Facebook and Instagram, as the social media giant faces scrutiny in an ongoing US antitrust case. Testifying in federal court this week, Zuckerberg revealed that the time people spend on Meta’s flagship platforms has “gone down meaningfully,” noting that user … Read more
New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.
Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.
“The market for social networks, or even what Meta is, is very different now than it was even a couple of years ago.”
China has activated the world’s only operational thorium molten salt reactor, marking a global breakthrough in clean nuclear energy using declassified United States research. Chinese scientists reloaded fuel into the working reactor in the Gobi Desert without halting operations, a feat revealed during a closed-door meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on April … Read more
A speech by White House science adviser Michael Kratsios has gone viral after he said that U.S. technologies allow the country to “manipulate time and space”—a phrase many interpreted literally despite its likely metaphorical intent. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, made the statement during a keynote address … Read more
Instagram is making it even easier to share your scrolling habits with your bestie. The platform has officially rolled out a new invite-only feature called Blend, which creates a private, personalised Reels feed shared between two users within their DMs. Announced on Thursday after more than a year of internal testing, Blend allows users to … Read more
Listen to article Alphabet’s Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its ad products. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in … Read more
In her second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial over Meta’s power, Ms. Sandberg, the former chief operating officer, also said the company faced plenty of competition from TikTok.
