No force can stop the pace of China’s tech advance

No force can stop the pace of China’s tech advance

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS – MARCH 23:Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte meets with the President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping at the Catshuis March 23, 2014 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo by Valerie Kuypers-Pool/Getty Images Valerie Kuypers-Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images China’s technological progress cannot be stopped, Chinese President Xi … Read more

Stock market bubble? Analysts explain why they’re not worried

Stock market bubble? Analysts explain why they’re not worried

Traders work on the floor during morning trading at the New York Stock Exchange on March 6, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The U.S. Federal Reserve, meanwhile, is expected to begin cutting interest rates in June, potentially supplying a further boon to high-growth tech stocks. The sheer scale and narrow nature of the bull … Read more

Adobe launches AI assistant that can search and summarize PDFs

Adobe launches AI assistant that can search and summarize PDFs

David Wadhwani, senior vice president of digital media for Adobe, speaks during the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6 in San Francisco on April 23, 2012. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can produce summaries of and … Read more

Magnificent 7 profits now exceed almost every country in the world. Should we be worried?

Magnificent 7 profits now exceed almost every country in the world. Should we be worried?

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on January 31, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The so-called “Magnificent 7” now wields greater financial might than almost every other major country in the world, according to new Deutsche Bank research. The meteoric rise … Read more

Sony gaming margin questioned after PS5 sales cut sparks stock plunge

Sony gaming margin questioned after PS5 sales cut sparks stock plunge

The PlayStation DualSense controller and PlayStation 5 console. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Sony this week announced it now expects to sell 21 million units of the PS5 in the fiscal year ending in March, compared with a previous forecast of 25 million units. The company’s shares fell after the announcement, with around … Read more

Varda drug spacecraft gets FAA approval to return

Varda drug spacecraft gets FAA approval to return

Varda’s first manufacturing satellite and reentry vehicle attached to a Rocket Lab Photon bus. Rocket Lab Space startup Varda received long-awaited approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to bring its first spacecraft back to earth after a stint manufacturing drugs in space. Varda’s small W-Series 1 capsule, or W-1, has been stuck in orbit since … Read more

Sony cuts PlayStation 5 sales forecast to 21 million units

Sony cuts PlayStation 5 sales forecast to 21 million units

Sony aims to sell 18 million PlayStation 5 consoles in its financial year ending in March 2023. Thiago Prudencio | Lightrocket | Getty Images Sony cut its sales forecast for its flagship PlayStation 5 console on Wednesday, after warning of weaker transactions in its key gaming division. The Japanese gaming giant said it now expects … Read more

Musk denies selling Starlink terminals to Russia after Kyiv alleges use

Musk denies selling Starlink terminals to Russia after Kyiv alleges use

A Falcon 9 rocket launches a Starlink mission from Florida on Feb. 27, 2023. SpaceX Ukraine’s main military intelligence agency accused Russian forces of using Starlink terminals produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in occupied areas. Starlink has been adamant that its satellite networks have never operated or been marketed in Russia, after its terminals were … Read more

Baidu partners with Lenovo in latest China AI smartphone deal

Baidu partners with Lenovo in latest China AI smartphone deal

ZHEJIANG, CHINA – MARCH 16 2023: A view of the logo of ERNIE Bot, an AI chatbot service developed by Chinese search engine Baidu, March 16, 2023. Long Wei | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s Baidu has partnered with Lenovo to feature its generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology on Lenovo’s smartphones, in the latest … Read more

Wall Street misunderstands new sports joint venture

Wall Street misunderstands new sports joint venture

EW Scripps CEO Adam Symson Source: EW Scripps Local TV station owners including Sinclair, TEGNA and EW Scripps all saw their valuations plummet this week after Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced a new sports joint venture set to launch this fall. Sinclair dropped 12% Wednesday, TEGNA fell 7.2% and Scripps plummeted 24% as … Read more