TECHNOLOGY

PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK By KABUI MWANGI More by this Author A lawsuit filed in the US against tech giant Apple could potentially unlock more use options for iPhone customers. In the suit, the country’s Justice Department has accused Apple of monopolising the smartphone market and crushing competition by abusing its control of the iPhone app store to lock in customers and developers. The tech firm also stands accused of taking illegal steps to thwart apps seen as a threat and making rival products less appealing, claims that
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2 years ago Read more at Business Daily

Zimbabwe’s first earth observation cubesat, ZimSat-1, launched in 2022. Another earth observation satellite is already under development and on track for launch later this year. Government has approved two further satellites, which are presently in initial development stages.
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2 years ago Read more at The Zimbabwe Mail

Fujitsu and Riken have teamed up to develop generative AI technology. They predict the state of a drug's target protein in the body more than 10 times faster than existing methods.
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2 years ago Read more at Nikkei Asia

Apple has been exploring deals with a number of companies to bring large language models and other generative tech to iPhone. Apple is already a major partner of Apple’s, supplying some of the most popular software on the App Store and providing Google Search as the default method for iPhones. That deal — in which Apple gets paid $28 billion to use a far better search engine than it could build itself — is a win-win, and the AI deal likely will be too.
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2 years ago Read more at The Age

Daniel Hoskin wrongly thought the ball hit the goal post, didn’t review and was dropped for the rest of the season for failing to use technology to guarantee a correct decision. Ben Keays goal cost Adelaide a win last season. The goal umpire said Matt Johnson kicked the ball out of bounds on the full late in Saturday’s game against North Melbourne.
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2 years ago Read more at The West Australian

The US Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit against Apple is a reminder that these big US tech companies are just businesses, not benefactors. But does anybody actually care? Or understand what’s going on with Big Tech? It’s similar to the stuff that social media companies are getting up to – data harvesting and algorithm influencing. The United States is only worried when it’s a Chinese company doing it, and as many (oh so many) Twitter correspondents felt obliged to tell me, the American
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2 years ago Read more at The New Daily

Tara Richards replaces Vicki Miller, who was appointed as BP’s director of innovation and engineering of A/NZ in February. On the Kmart side, she replaces Miller. In a LinkedIn post reflecting on her eight years in the role, Miller said that she developed new technologies to enter new markets.
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2 years ago Read more at iTnews

Astronauts will fit the device onto Astrobee, a NASA robot platform that roams the station and can assist with a range of tasks. CSIRO Research Group Leader, Dr Marc Elmouttie, said the payload will create three-dimensional maps of the orbiting laboratory in greater detail than has ever been achieved before. The payload was developed in partnership with the ISS National Laboratory and with the support of the NASA Ames Research Centre.
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2 years ago Read more at CSIRO

In one documented by The New Yorker, an American woman received a late night phone call that appeared to come from her mother-in-law, wailing “I can’t do it” The scammer had used an AI-generated “deepfake” images of Matt Comyn, Commonwealth Bank CEO. Even once hackers are inside an organisation or have duped an employee, funds have to be moved or converted into other currencies.
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2 years ago Read more at The Australian Financial Review

Project GR00T is a type of AI system trained on massive amounts of data. It will help humanoid robots “understand natural language and emulate movements by observing human actions” Nvidia also announced its Isaac Manipulator and Isaac Perceptor, part of the company’s Isaac robotics platform.
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2 years ago Read more at AOL