Technology

US tech giant Apple could double or triple investments in India, along with exports, over the next few years, a minister said, as the company opened a second store in the world’s biggest smartphone market after China. Apple mainly assembles iPhones in India through Taiwan contract manufacturers but plans to expand into iPads and AirPods, as it looks to cut reliance …

PARIS: A German artist has sparked an angry row after winning a prestigious photography prize with an entry that was generated by artificial intelligence. Boris Eldagsen eventually rejected the gong from the Sony World Photography Awards after concluding that such competitions were not yet equipped to handle AI entries. The award organisers initially accused the artist of “misleading” behaviour, but removed …

About 300 people lined up at Apple’s store in Mumbai on Tuesday, as fans took selfies with Chief Executive Tim Cook who inaugurated the first retail store run by the company in India, underscoring the importance of its market. People gathered from across the nation, hoping to be among the first to enter the store in an opening event featuring …

Malaysia plans to introduce a second 5G network from next year, four sources told Reuters, in the latest policy shake-up aimed at dismantling monopolies and promoting competition by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s six-month-old administration. Malaysia’s 5G roll-out by state agency Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) has seen repeated delays since its launch in December 2021 because of industry concerns over pricing …

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday he had launched an effort to establish rules on artificial intelligence to address national security and education concerns, as use of programs like ChatGPT becomes widespread. Schumer, a Democrat, said in a statement he had drafted and circulated a “framework that outlines a new regulatory regime that would prevent potentially catastrophic damage …

Shad Bibi, 28, is busy picking red chillies. Her young daughter sits beside her with her little brother cradled against her. As he starts crying, Shad Bibi picks him up with dirty, peppered hands. The infant cries even louder apparently due to discomfort or burning feeling from contact with peppers. She, like many other women, is toiling in the chilli …

SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday. Musk, who is already the boss of Twitter and Tesla, was listed as a director of X.AI Corporation founded on March 9, a state business filing indicated. Musk recently merged Twitter with a newly …

KARACHI: TikTok re­­moved over 12 million videos posted from Pakistan over community guidelines violation in the fourth quarter of 2022, the popular short video platform said in a report released on Thursday. According to TikTok’s Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for the fourth quarter (Q4 2022), 12,628,267 videos from Pakistan were removed from October to December 2022, making up for 14.7 …

US radio broadcaster National Public Radio (NPR) on Wednesday said it was quitting Twitter, in the first significant defection by a major news outlet since Elon Musk’s tumultuous takeover of the platform. The exit caps a week-long row over Twitter’s decision to label NPR as a “state-affiliated media”, branding it the same way as it does major media outlets in authoritarian countries such as Russia or …

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk has said that the legacy blue checkmarks would be removed from Twitter accounts verified under the company’s previous regime, with an April 20 deadline set for the enforcement. The blue checkmark — previously free for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists and other public figures — is now open to anyone prepared to pay. The move …