Renders of the Pixel 6. Get a load of that camera bar. [credit: Jon Prosser ] The Pixel 6 promises to be a landmark device for Google, as it is expected to mark the debut of the Google-developed “Whitechapel” SoC, instead of the Qualcomm chips the search giant has shipped in all of its previous […]
A new study in the journal Nature found that the U.K.’s COVID-19 contact tracing app helped avert as many as 900,000 infections even though a fraction of people installed it. Read More
Apple made special deals with Netflix, Facebook, and others with major apps on the iPhone. Read More
Enlarge / Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) (credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images) To promote her new book, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota gave a series of interviews this week, one of which was with me. She told me outright that our session […]
Although giant neural networks get much of the attention, smaller neural networks are more easy to explain, making them more appealing to regulators. Read More
Enlarge / AI researcher Samy Bengio (left) poses with his brother Yoshua Bengio (right) for a photo tied to a report from cloud-platform company Paperspace on the future of AI. (credit: Paperspace) Apple has hired Samy Bengio, a prominent AI researcher who previously worked at Google. Bengio will lead “a new AI research unit” within […]
Results at Spotify, Pinterest, and Microsoft disappointed the stock market. Read More
U.S. futures are flat ahead of Fed Chief Jerome Powell’s press conference later today. Read More
New FAA rules now allow commercial drone flights at night and over people and cars without a waiver. Read More
Enlarge / Maybe this textbook is from the Ma Bell era? #ThanksStockGettyImages (credit: designer491 / Getty Images) Josh Hawley had some questions about how Apple came up with the money to buy back $58 billion in stock over the past year. “I just want to focus on one major source of that income,” the Republican […]