Google announced new 5G Pixel phones, Facebook introduced the Portal Go, and The Senate schedules a hearing with YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok over young users’ safety.
Google takes the wraps off the new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones. Higher performance, new features and new colors we take a look at what Google’s latest smartphones bring to the table. Facebook is introducing a mobile 10.1-inch smart display called the Facebook Portal Go and Fisher Price is putting out a version of its Chatter play telephone that can pair with Android and iOS.
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Apple reveals two new M1 chips; the M1 Pro and M1 Max. See how these new SoC processors stack up to the original M1 and the new MacBooks models that will feature them.
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Facebook committed to creating 10,000 jobs in the EU over the next five years to work on the multiverse, Chinese regulators consider new rules to let search engine list content from other big tech platforms, and Valve and Epic Games take different stances on blockchain games.
This week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model which they call the “most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date”. Dr. Nicole Ackermans breaks down the science of language models to help us understand the implications of this announcement.
Facebook expands testing a ‘less political’ News Feed, WhatsApp rolls out end to end encrypted chat backups, and Amazon private-brands reportedly used internal data to copy products and prioritize them in search results.
Tesla launched an auto insurance product in Texas that uses “real-time driving behavior” that it will use “to evaluate your premium based on your actual driving.” Apple employees are organizing under the name Apple Too, to collect stories of workers who have experienced harassment or discrimination. Tuesday, a reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch alerted the state of Missouri that social security numbers of school teachers and administrators were vulnerable to public exposure on the Missouri department of education’s website.
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Facebook anunció pruebas para mostrar menos contenido relacionado con la política, Amazon aprovecha información interna para copiar y vender productos de marca propia en su plataforma y Xiaomi es el rey de las ventas de celulares en Colombia.