Jack Ma, the most famous businessman China has ever produced, is avoiding the spotlight. Friends say he is painting and practicing tai chi. Sometimes, he shares drawings with Masayoshi Son, the billionaire head of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. The wider world glimpsed Mr. Ma for the first time in months last week, during a virtual […]
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Big technology companies are still misdiagnosing why they have so many enemies. Mark Zuckerberg this week told interviewers that people and institutions who are losing control in the world blame Facebook for the changes they’re seeing. Jeff […]
The European Union unveiled strict regulations on Wednesday to govern the use of artificial intelligence, a first-of-its-kind policy that outlines how companies and governments can use a technology seen as one of the most significant, but ethically fraught, scientific breakthroughs in recent memory. The draft rules would set limits around the use of artificial intelligence […]
A new sextortion tactic sees offenders superimposing a youth’s face in a video or photo to make it look like they’re nude or engaging in a sexual act, Cybertip.ca says. Read more: Child luring and sextortion cases online spike since start of pandemic The protection agency says offenders are blackmailing young people — demanding […]
A group of seven House Republicans said on Wednesday that they would no longer take donations from major tech companies or their top executives, a sign of the growing distance between some conservatives and big business. The lawmakers said in a letter that the companies had limited the reach of conservative voices, citing bans on […]
In addition to the job-hopping you’d expect during boom times, the pandemic has created many more remote jobs, and expanded the number of companies willing to hire outside of big, coastal cities. That has given workers in remote-friendly industries, such as tech and finance, more leverage to ask for what they want. “Employees have a […]
The company has all of its programs registered with the F.D.A., said Eran Orr, founder and chief executive. Not all the programs offered for V.R. rehab are games; some clinics allow a patient to virtually practice real-life skills they may have trouble doing, such as grocery shopping or dishwashing. To really push the use of […]
Netflix still rules the streaming universe. As of the end of March, it had 207.6 million total paying subscribers, with about 67 million in the United States, the company noted in an earnings report on Tuesday. But its main competitors — Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and AppleTV+, as well as the old-guard streamers Amazon Prime […]
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 20, 2021 4:38 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Rogers Communications Inc. is offering customers a credit after a massive nationwide wireless outage left millions without voice calls, texting […]
Apple Inc announced a line of slim iMac computers and iPads with higher-quality video that use its own processors, as it speeds its migration away from Intel and caters to a work-from-home world. The company also launched products including AirTags to find lost items and podcast subscription services. AirTags will cost US$29 each, while […]