It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspirational leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today by June 18. More information The rapidly evolving AI video generation market has changed again: Luma AI, a startup backed by famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, today announced the … Read more
People are downloading the iOS 18 beta (Photo: Filip Radwanski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) An expert has warned iPhone users not to download iOS 18 because it appears to be ‘eavesdropping’. The beta version, a pre-release available to some users before the software is commercially rolled out, has since been available Apple unveiled the update on … Read more
Black holes are weird. Predicted as a result of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, they contain an outer region known as the event horizon – from which nothing, even light, can escape. In addition, they are predicted to have an infinitely compact point where our understanding of physics collapses, and nothing makes any sense anymore. … Read more
A dad made a small fortune selling dodgy fire sticks online to fund his gambling addiction. Kevin O’Donnell, of Altcross Road, Croxteth, sold modified fire sticks between September 2020 and March 2023 for illegally streaming subscription-based content. He was caught after FACT, the Federation Against Copyright Theft, received information about the sale of devices providing … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Markets and finance thrive when they sound smart. But over drinks at a recent event, a number of professional fund managers admitted that their big investment thesis at the moment is this: the market wants … Read more
Ace – that’s not only the name of Sonos’ just-announced wireless headphones, but also how good they seem to be. Should their biggest rivals, namely the Sony WH-1000XM5, Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones and Apple AirPods Max, be concerned? They would be stupid if they didn’t. The Ace has a lot in common with one or … Read more
A Samsung S24 Ultra smartphone at a Samsung Unveiled event in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA … [+] Thursday, January 11, 2024. Samsung Electronics Co. is turning to artificial intelligence features to innovate its flagship Galaxy smartphones, betting the technology can give it an advantage over Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg © 2024 Bloomberg … Read more
Last week, Apple held its ‘Let Loose’ event, where the company showcased some of its new innovations and products, including an ad about the event’s main attraction, the new iPad Pro. As you may have seen, this ad caused a firestorm of controversy for reasons Apple didn’t intend – and now Samsung has taken the … Read more