A passenger aircraft, operated by British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG), sits on the tarmac as travellers sit in a restaurant at London City Airport (LCY), in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. The chief Brexit concern of carriers is to maintain a single market for air travel which […]
(Reuters) — Apple’s main regulator in the European Union, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), has opened a third privacy investigation into the iPhone maker over the last few weeks, a spokesman for the DPC said on Tuesday. The probe is examining whether Apple has complied with the relevant provisions of the EU’s new General Data […]
Workers prepared Monday for the test of the Orion spacecraft’s emergency launch abort system. (Thom Baur/Reuters) July 1 at 11:19 PM Usually, the most dramatic part of human space travel is the liftoff: a controlled explosion of massive amounts of propellant, blasting a rocket off the ground on a pillow of fire and smoke. But […]
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, was tearing up. For half an hour, we had been sitting in a conference room at Facebook’s headquarters, surrounded by whiteboards covered in blue and red marker, discussing the technical difficulties of removing toxic content from the social network. Then we brought up an episode […]
WASHINGTON — Facebook’s announcement in late April that it had set aside $ 3 billion to $ 5 billion to settle claims that it mishandled users’ personal data suggested a strong consensus by federal regulators that the social media giant needed to be held accountable. But the reality behind the scenes at the Federal Trade […]
Previous Next Skylum Skylum Skylum Skylum Luminar’s artificially intelligent photo editing tools just got a little smarter. On Thursday, April 25, Skylum Software launched Luminar 3.1.0, an update that focuses on enhancing the Accent A.I. filter as well as bringing a handful of other smaller tweaks. The existing Accent A.I. uses machine learning to automatically […]
Supported by China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces As a devastating disease afflicts the country’s swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unproven ways to save them. By Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen Feb. 24, 2019 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 ImageA system made by Yingzi Techology, a small Chinese company, scanning […]
The hype leading into Anthem’s pair of demo weekends felt good. There were a few reasons for this, not least of which was the fact the demo existed. It felt like a sign of confidence. Why would Electronic Arts and Bioware want people to play if not to convert skeptics into true believers? Yet confidence […]
At the recent CES 2019 tech trade show in Las Vegas, Canon and Electronic Arts showed off how they capture 3D scans of the faces of busy athletes while they’re on the road. Every year, EA needs to capture the faces of thousands of athletes for its video games, but it’s not always easy to […]
Supported by Google’s Pichai Faces Privacy and Bias Questions in Congress ImageSundar Pichai, an engineer who rose through Google’s ranks to become its leader three years ago, faced more than three hours of questions from the House Judiciary Committee.CreditCreditSarah Silbiger/The New York Times By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Cecilia Kang Dec. 11, 2018 WASHINGTON — Google’s […]
Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, is facing fraud charges relating to alleged breaking of US sanctions on Iran, a Canadian court has heard. Details of the charges were revealed when a publication ban was lifted by a judge in Vancouver. Ms Meng, daughter of Huawei’s founder, was arrested in the […]
ImageCreditCreditGLUEKIT for The New York Times SectionsSkip to contentSkip to site index Bitcoin’s ‘First Felon’ Faces More Legal Trouble Charlie Shrem went to prison in 2015 after he pleaded guilty to helping people buy drugs online. Now he’s being sued by the Winklevoss twins. CreditCreditGLUEKIT for The New York Times By Nathaniel Popper Nov. 2, […]
Virgin Media says it is investigating a problem which has left many customers in London without internet access and TV services. The company tweeted that the problem “might be fixed this evening”, but said a separate “system issue” left it unable to provide more information. The problems were first reported on tracking website Down Detector […]
He’s going to the moon (with eight artists): Yusaku Maezawa So, who do you think Yusaku Maezawa should take with him on his five-day round trip to the moon when he travels there aboard SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) in 2023? SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday named the wealthy Japanese entrepreneur as its very […]
Women who have signed up to Fitbit’s period tracker have complained that it only allows them to log menstrual cycles of 10 days or fewer. Many women pointed out that their periods can last much longer, making the tracker on the wearable fitness device useless. Fitbit confirmed to the BBC that “currently a period must […]