T-Mobile said that its T-Satellite Starlink data service will hit phones in October, and it has now made good on that promise with a drastic phone model support expansion. T-Satellite launched its data service ahead of schedule on select handsets like the Google Pixel 10 series, or the Samsung Z Fold 7 and the Z…
Those data centers will be powered by Nvidia chips and the company said it would ship up to 120,000 advanced GPUs to British data centers in total, funded by investments from Microsoft, Nscale, OpenAI and CoreWeave. Around half of those GPUs will go to British data center firm Nscale, which is partnering with Microsoft to…
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang built his 2020 run around a “Freedom Dividend,” promising $1,000 a month for every adult. Now he’s trying to put cash back in Americans’ hands with his latest venture, by slashing their phone bills. On Tuesday, he announced the launch of Noble Mobile, a wireless carrier that charges $50 a…
Social media giant Meta posted a net profit of $18.3 billion in the second quarter, exceeding Wall Street expectations – Copyright AFP Fabrice COFFRINI A new study reveals that Instagram and Facebook are the apps that collect the most user data. This is based on an assessment conducted by the website QR Code Generator, which analysed the…
A group of student reporters observe a robotic dog at the 2025 China International Big Data Industry Expo, held at the Guiyang International Convention and Exhibition Center in Guizhou from Aug 28 to 30. [Photo provided to China Daily] Middle school students from Guizhou step into the world of journalism, reporting on advanced technologies at the…
The fashion and beauty marketing function is in flux. In 2025, both industries face a number of challenges — from increasing customer acquisition costs to competing for attention across saturated channels. Although inflation has waned, consumers have a diminished appetite for discretionary spending amid today’s turbulent global economy. This market reality requires brands to make…
Two new papers in Science Robotics, published on August 27 by UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg, argue that truly capable humanoid robots remain far further off than the most optimistic timelines suggest. While large language models (LLMs) surged into everyday use by training on vast internet text, Goldberg says robots can’t ride the same data…
When Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek debuted a chatbot that it said rivaled the best the United States had to offer, and at a fraction of the cost, venture capitalist Marc Andreesen called it “AI’s Sputnik moment.” Seven months later, it appears DeepSeek needs some American rocket power to get its AI Sputnik off the…
“Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from a recent tour of China’s AI hubs. For American AI researchers, that’s almost unimaginable. In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could…
In fairness, the U.K. government did demand Apple grant it a backdoor to access user data, teeing up an almighty fight with the U.S. And its online safety laws have tried to rein in tech giants with new rules forcing them to police “harmful” content – much to the annoyance of some U.S. lawmakers. Still,…