The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight states have filed charges against Google, accusing the company of exerting monopoly power over the buying and selling of online advertisements (ads). U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland filed the 155-page complaint in
Two of the AI technologies that have been gaining traction are the Text-to-Image and Text-to-Video AI systems, and Google has joined the race to provide them. These systems are trained on large datasets of images, videos and their associated text descriptions.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked up the metaverse as “game changing” at the just ended Word Economic Forum (WEF). He spoke as the U.S. tech giant shut down its virtual reality (VR) metaverse AltspaceVR, in a company-wide purge that will
Twitter CEO Elon Musk may have turned down a Davos invite, per his contested claim, but he did not necessarily sit out the proceedings. The chief twit has been chatty about this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF),
Neal Stephenson, who is credited for coining the term “metaverse” thinks the idea of a metaverse may be a hard sell. He invented the term in 1992 in his sci-fi novel – Snow Crash. Now, three decades later, Stephenson is back
The European Commission’s move to make traffic intensive online platforms to contribute to the cost of digital infrastructure will include the rise in data volumes used by the metaverse and virtual platforms. This initiative seeks to address a long-standing grievance
Apple is ready to launch its first mixed reality headset after years of development, as the tech giant follows Mark Zuckerberg into the metaverse. Bloomberg reports Apple has been working on the project for years, with plans to launch a
Seattle’s public school district has filed a lawsuit against social media giants Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Snap, and TikTok-owner ByteDance in the US District Court. The complaint, filed on Friday, claims that these tech giants intentionally designed their platforms to lure
TikTok has diluted the dominance of the two largest online advertising platforms – Google and Meta, as the incumbents no longer rake in the majority of U.S. advertising money. Insiders in the industry expect the trend to continue in the
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Meta Quest, Workplace, Mapillary, and Horizon Worlds lost more than 60% of its valuation in 2022, TradingView data showed. The plunge in market valuation has reduced METAs capitalization by over $500
Twitter is being probed over personal data protection after a hacker claimed to have details of more than 400 million users. Identified as “Ryushi”, the hacker is demanding $200 000 or £166 000 to hand over the data and delete
The metaverse is a shared virtual landscape, an immersive internet in three dimensions. Or, as the new AI YouChat puts it: “The metaverse is a hypothetical evolution of the internet in which all aspects of online life are integrated into a
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