Chinese President Xi Jinping’s blistering response to Donald Trump violating the terms of their fragile trade truce has reignited a tit-for-tat spiral, exposing the rocky path to any US-China trade deal. After China unveiled wide-ranging global export controls on products containing even traces of certain rare earths this past week, Trump fired back by threatening…
In the absence of stronger federal regulation, some states have begun regulating apps that offer AI “therapy” as more people turn to artificial intelligence for mental health advice. But the laws, all passed this year, don’t fully address the fast-changing landscape of AI software development. And app developers, policymakers and mental health advocates say the…
A massive two-year study reveals fitness apps can help people take more steps, but the improvements are modest and uneven—raising big questions about who benefits most and how to make digital health tools sustainable. Study: Can fitness apps work long term? A 24-month quasi-experiment of 516,818 Canadian fitness app users. Image Credit: Nan_Got / Shutterstock…
A prototype app called Pixeltone developed by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan showed the possibility of using voice control and touch for photo editing. The top comment on the YouTube video demonstrating the capability is this one, left by a viewer 12 years ago: “Why so much hate? It isn’t for the “real”…
Jim Cramer says there’s only one way Amazon stock will get unstuck. “When I speak to Andrew Jassy, the CEO, I’m saying, ‘Listen, when are you going to accelerate Amazon Web Services? Azure is kicking your butt,” Jim said during Wednesday’s Morning Meeting for Club members. Azure is Microsoft ‘s cloud unit, which is No….
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia. Reuters ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI’s CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company’s next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action. Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute…
Grape Software has announced the release of a new food hygiene inspection software for UK Local Authorities, designed to simplify the inspection process and help reduce the growing backlog of food businesses currently awaiting an inspection. According to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA), as of June 2025, an estimated 95,000 food businesses are overdue…
New phone: who dis? Better yet, who’s going to upgrade? Anytime a new iPhone is announced, millions of current iPhone owners wonder: “should I trade in my old one for the latest?” The new operating system is packed with features that will impress some users and frustrate others. The answer depends less on Apple’s…
For the past 25 years, top American tech firms including IBM, Cisco, and NVIDIA helped build China’s digital police state, an Associated Press investigation revealed Tuesday. The report shows these companies sold billions of dollars in technology that became the foundation of China’s vast surveillance network. This equipment enabled severe human rights abuses, from the…
As the Defense Department moves to buy and integrate software at a faster pace, the military services now have access to a tool that allows warfighters to manage and deploy mission-specific software in an instant. Developed by Colorado-based startup Defense Unicorns, the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS) Registry is a centralized repository that stores, verifies and…