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Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Sunday the country expected to receive an investment of at least $5 billion from Tesla (TSLA.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O)."Tesla would be looking into an EV manufacturing facility, Microsoft and Google are looking at data centers," he said, without detailing whether the $5 billion wa
Read MoreMicrosoft MSFT.O on Thursday announced a "unified" artificial intelligence (AI) for its Windows 11 platform and four new Surface devices, upping the appeal of its products spruced with the latest technology.The new AI tool, called Copilot, will work across the company's web and productivity applications Bing, Edge browser, and Micro
Read MoreSept 20 (Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O on Wednesday unveiled a slate of new and refreshed devices and updated its Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence to attract users to the unprofitable product as competition grows from chatbots like Google's Bard.Alexa will converse more naturally, losing its robotic ton
Read MoreFacebook's owner Meta has hit back at a government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.Protecting messages with end-to-end encryption would mean that they could only be read by sender and recipient.Home Secretary Suella Braverman said encryption could not come at the cost of children's safety, amid fears it can be used to co
Read MoreElon Musk has suggested that all users of X, formerly called Twitter, may have to pay for access to the platform.In a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the billionaire said a payment system was the only way to counter bots."We're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system," the Tesla and SpaceX boss sa
Read MoreIrish regulators have fined TikTok €345m (£296m) for violating children's privacy.The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children's data in 2020 - particularly around age verification and privacy settings.It is the biggest fine to date TikTok has received from regulators.A spokesperson for the social media firm said it "respect
Read MoreGoogle has reached a $93 million settlement with the state of California to resolve allegations that it was collecting consumers’ data without their consent, the state’s attorney general said in a statement Thursday.The California Department of Justice found that, after a multi-year investigation, the tech giant was “deceiving users by collec
Read MoreGlobal spending on collaboration apps continues to rise as businesses deploy software across their organizations, according to IDC. But the rate of growth has slowed as adoption of videoconferencing tools matures and vendors trim prices.Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share by Email Print resourceIt includes vid
Read MoreQualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Monday it had signed a deal with Apple (AAPL.O) to supply 5G chips until at least 2026, at a time when the iPhone maker faces increased challenges in China and looks to reinforce its supply chains elsewhere.The deal extends a relationship worth billions of dollars to Qualcomm for at least three years be
Read MoreTesla's (TSLA.O) Dojo supercomputer could power a near $600 billion jump in the automaker's market value by boosting the adoption of robot axis and its software services, Morgan Stanley analysts said.The electric-vehicle maker (EV) started production of the supercomputer used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models for self-driving cars in Jul
Read MoreThe massively popular children's gaming platform Roblox has announced plans to launch on Sony's PlayStation consoles.Roblox has more than 60 million players a day, according to the firm, but it has come under criticism over concerns about poor moderation of its content.Other announcements include a new way to make characters, a communication t
Read MoreThe theft of IT equipment and data, as well as digital and industrial espionage and sabotage, will cost Germany 206 billion euros ($224 billion) in 2023, German digital association Bitkom said on Friday.The damage will surpass the 200 billion euro mark for the third consecutive year, according to a Bitkom survey of more than 1,000 companies."The Ge
Read MoreMay 4, London, UK: Europe’s premier climate technology conference & tradeshow is all setto become better and bigger than ever before with the confirmed participation of manyindustry giants from across the world. Aiming to expedite the shift towards a carbon-neutraleconomy, the 2nd edition shall take place at the ExCel London from 26-27 Se
Read MoreSilicon Valley-based startup, Heliogen, has raised $250 million to further develop its hydrogen technology, which has the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions in industries such as cement and steel.The funding round was led by billionaire Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures and includes investments from energy companies including
Read MoreMicrosoft, the world's largest software maker, reported a strong boost in profits and revenue for its fiscal third quarter, driven by strong sales of its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services.The company reported revenue of $41.7 billion for the quarter, up 19% from the same period last year, while net income rose to $15.5 billi
Read MoreGoogle's advertising revenue, which accounts for the bulk of Alphabet's revenue, was $44.7 billion, up 32% year-on-year. However, this was below analysts' expectations, and the company's shares fell by around 5% in after-hours trading.According to Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, the company's advertising business was affected by the pandemic's ongoing imp
Read MoreLG Energy Solution, a unit of South Korean conglomerate LG Group, announced that its first-quarter profits more than doubled, thanks to strong gains in the U.S. market.The company, which produces lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, reported a net profit of 1.5 trillion won ($1.3 billion) for the first quarter of
Read MoreThe move is aimed at helping customers reduce their costs and increase their efficiency.The price cuts will apply to a range of Alibaba Cloud's services, including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Object Storage Service (OSS), and Relational Database Service (RDS). The reductions will vary depending on the specific product and location, but in some c
Read MoreElon Musk overtaken as world's richest person by LVMH chairman Bernard ArnaultElon Musk has lost his crown of the world’s richest person to LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault. According to the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List, the net worth of Arnault is $181.8 billion, while Elon’s net worth has slumped to $163.7 billion . The net worth of Tesla
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