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The giant e-commerce platform Amazon announced on Monday its decision to abandon the purchase of iRobot, the company that markets robotic vacuum cleaners, such as the Roomba. This decision was made due to Amazon’s inability to secure approval from the European Commission, which expressed concerns about the deal’s impact on competition, as reported by the…

Scientists have succeeded in recreating Pink Floyd’s song “Another Brick in the Wall” recorded in the brain cortex of a group listening to the song, by reading the brain signals associated with it and then decoding them using artificial intelligence. Although the resulting sound of the song was distorted, it was understandable to those who…

Predicting the weather for the coming days requires analyzing hundreds of millions of readings coming from all around the world daily. These readings come from a wide array of sources, including weather stations, satellites, balloons hovering in the atmosphere, ocean buoys, and even readings captured by sensors on the noses of commercial jetliners. This vast…

Title: “The Pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence: Forecasts and Prospects” For over a decade, Shane Legg, co-founder of the DeepMind AI lab now under Google, declared that the likelihood of achieving human-level artificial intelligence by 2028 stood at 50%. This assertion from Legg appears steadfast as of his October 2023 interview with tech program host…

Valentin Schmidt, the CEO of Aska Mona, a company providing technology that allows individuals to interact textually or verbally with around 30 historical figures via scanning a QR code on their smartphones, says, “The immersive experience and new technologies never replace traditional artwork viewing, but they enhance the museum experience and attract a new audience.”…

Mark Weber of the Computer History Museum said, “I don’t think there’s any doubt that the iPhone set the standard that almost all phones have followed since then… The App Store was huge, and the Android system followed that model essentially with the Play Store.” After a decade of iPhone releases, Apple became the first…

Parisian museums are embracing adventurous experiments and artificial intelligence to attract younger audiences while still maintaining traditional visitor experiences with artworks. In a conversation with the French news agency, Chloe Séguin, head of live performances at the Pompidou Center, a major museum of modern art and a leading cultural destination in using new technologies, stated…

When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced the iPhone in 2007, he described it as a “revolutionary product” in the category of phones that he said needed to be reinvented. Now, after nearly two decades and 42 models, the iPhone has become one of the most popular phones in the world. Apple has sold more than…

The writer mentioned that her 7-year-old daughter expressed her love for the simple flip phone, which made her mother not look at her phone as much and spend more time playing with her. Additionally, the writer noted that her desire to share every precious moment with her daughters on Instagram faded throughout the month. Instead,…

The writer mentioned that both the “Light Phone” and Briohny’s smart “High Sense A9” phone, priced at $480, come with digital screens akin to Kindle screens. Briohny stated, “I personally found that the duller the screen, the easier it was to not get addicted to it.” The writer pointed out that research supports this claim,…