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If you’ve been paying attention to AI-related announcements over the past year, you’ve probably noticed that many tech companies have chosen stars or star-like symbols to represent their AI products and services, and at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event today, the sparkly logo was everywhere. This story is part of the Samsung Event, CNET’s roundup of news, tips and advice about Samsung’s most popular products. And we need tech companies to stop it. Now.The sparkly emoji is special. It’s not the boring basic star (⭐) your grandma sends you. It’s not the emoji (💫) that’s supposed to represent dizzyness, it’s the…
Released on July 10, 2024 at 10:02 pm Technology & Startup Desk Samsung unveiled a series of new products at its latest Galaxy Unpacked event, including the new Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6, Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Watch 7 and Watch Ultra, Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro. Let’s take a quick look at all the new products officially announced by Samsung at Galaxy Unpacked 2024. Samsung Galaxy Fold 6 (left) and Flip 6 (right)”> Samsung Galaxy Fold 6 (left) and Flip 6 (right) Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 The Fold 6 has a 7.6-inch main…
Key Takeaways Baidu shares rose on Wednesday after optimistic reports about the Chinese tech company’s robotaxi business. Dow Jones News and Bloomberg pointed to an analyst note that said Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi business is likely to break even this year in Wuhan. The impending launch of Tesla’s robotaxi is also raising hopes. Baidu (BIDU) American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) rose in intraday trading on Wednesday after reports that the Chinese internet search engine’s robotaxi business, Apollo Go, is getting off the ground in China. Dow Jones News and Bloomberg both reported that they expect Apollo Go to break even in…
Commercial real estate investors are preparing to put their money to work as high interest rates and remote work continue to hurt the real estate market.Private equity firms have $400 billion in cash, 64% of which is in North American real estate, according to Preqin data cited by Bloomberg. This is the highest percentage of the North American real estate market allocated in the past two decades, bringing the total to about $256 billion. This suggests that companies are waiting for the right opportunity to buy up commercial real estate at bargain prices.Commercial real estate values are on the decline…
Common sense tells you that retiring with debt is a bad idea.But mortgage and credit card debt is a harsh reality for more than a quarter of retirees, according to a new survey from the National Association of Retired Persons.”Many people are feeling financial pressures from inflation, which could be exacerbating the debt some retirees still have,” Mike Morrone, vice president of business development at Nationwide, told Yahoo Finance.Sobering findings: Nearly one-third of retirees expect their financial situation to be less stable in retirement than their parents’ or grandparents’ generation, and one in five currently worry about paying their monthly…
California’s record-breaking heat wave is expected to hit record highs in Los Angeles County and the Antelope Valley on Wednesday.Temperatures are expected to reach 122 degrees in the desert near Palm Springs and nearly 114 degrees in Barstow.Lancaster and Palmdale recorded their seventh day of temperatures exceeding 110 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking records for the number of consecutive days with extreme heat. The extreme heat warning will be in effect until 9 p.m. Saturday and will affect the Antelope Valley, along Interstate 5, the western San Gabriel Mountains and along Highway 14. Extreme heat warnings and watches are in effect for…
Benji Edwards / OpenAI / Microsoft Microsoft has withdrawn from its role as a non-voting observer on OpenAI’s board of directors, and Apple has also opted not to take a similar position, Axios and the Financial Times reported. The ChatGPT maker will update business partners and investors through regular meetings rather than participating in the board. The move comes as EU and US regulators are stepping up scrutiny of investments made by big tech companies in AI startups. As reported by Axios, Microsoft deputy general counsel Keith Dolliver wrote to OpenAI on Tuesday, saying the tech giant’s board role is…
DALLAS , July 10, 2024 /CNW/ — Trintech, a leading global provider of cloud-based financial close solutions for finance departments, achieved leader status in 10 financial close software categories and earned 12 badges in the Summer 2024 report from G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. Additionally, the company’s Adra Platform maintained its #1 position in five European and EMEA grids of financial close software.Trintech logo (PRNewsfoto/Trintech Group Plc)Trintech’s Summer 2024 G2 badges include: #1 Leader Badge: EMEA Grid® for Financial Close Software (Adra)#1 Leader Badge: Europe Grid® (Adra) for Financial Close Software1st Place Leader Badge: Enterprise EMEA…
The Republican Party adopted a new platform on June 8 ahead of a possible second term for former President Donald Trump. Buried among the party’s latest policy positions on abortion, immigration, and crime, the document contains a provision that worries some artificial intelligence experts: it vows to repeal President Joe Biden’s executive orders on AI.”We will repeal Joe Biden’s dangerous executive orders that stifle innovation in AI and impose a radical left wing ideology on the development of this technology,” the platform states.President Biden’s executive order on AI, signed last October, aims to address threats posed by new technologies to…
Business worships chaos. That prophet was the late Clayton Christensen, who published The Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997, arguing that the inevitable fate of large, established organizations was to be cannibalized by smaller, upstarts. He argued that because smaller organizations don’t have to worry about satisfying the needs of an existing customer base and aren’t bound by the profitability standards required by mature industries, they are freer to innovate, find new ways to serve new customers, and then push upstream, eventually displacing incumbents. This process leads to the dilemma in the book’s title: executives at large, established organizations are paving the…