Editor’s note:Let’s roundup the top Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included introducing the Texas Medical Center’s ongoing cohort, generative AI at Baylor College of Medicine, and more. TMC names latest cohort of health tech innovators for 2024 program Here are the eight companies currently being accelerated … Read more
A top Republican lawmaker has urged President Biden’s Commerce Department to probe whether Microsoft’s business in China is a national security risk – after The Post highlighted growing fears on Capitol Hill that the Big Tech giant was getting too cozy with Beijing as it develops AI technology. A scathing letter by Rep. Pat Fallon … Read more
We don’t even know when or if the PlayStation 5 Pro will be released but that hasn’t stopped the internet rumour mill from spinning, teasing potential new features. Who are we kidding? Sony will surely release a PlayStation 5 Pro at some point. It might not necessarily have the word “Pro” in the name (though … Read more
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia’s technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo chats with Taipei tech correspondents Annie Cheng-Ting Fang and Lauly Li, about the highlights of the 2024 Mobile World Congress, where major telecom equipment makers and smartphone giants showcased their newest AI innovations. Listen to our … Read more
Undersea cables in the Red Sea have been damaged, causing “significant” disruption to global telecommunications networks, according to reports. Though it wasn’t immediately clear how the cables were marred, Yemeni government officials warned that Houthi rebels may target the submarine cables, according to CNN, which has forced internet providers to divert as much as 25% … Read more
Meta said Friday that it will discontinue Facebook’s news feature for US and Australian users in April – setting up a possible showdown with lawmakers in both countries who have ripped the tech giant’s treatment of the media industry. Meta said it “will not enter into new commercial deals for traditional news content in these … Read more
Google said Thursday it would “pause” its Gemini chatbot’s image generation tool after it was widely panned for creating “diverse” images that were not historically or factually accurate — such as black Vikings, female popes and Native Americans among the Founding Fathers. Social media users had blasted Gemini as “absurdly woke” and “unusable” after requests … Read more
Nvidia added $250 billion in stock market value on Thursday, on track for Wall Street’s largest one-day gain in history after the heavyweight chipmaker’s quarterly report beat expectations and reignited a rally fueled by optimism about artificial intelligence. The company’s stock was last up 15% at $774.18, lifting its market capitalization to over $1.9 trillion after its January-quarter … Read more
Story continues below Advertisement Salesforce is laying off about 700 employees, or roughly 1% of its global workforce, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, in the latest round of job cuts to hit the tech industry. However, the report added that Salesforce still has 1,000 jobs open across the company, implying that the move … Read more
An executive at Fujitsu, the Japanese IT company embroiled in the United Kingdom’s Post Office scandal, said the company has a “moral responsibility” to contribute to redress for sub-postmasters who suffered as a result of its faulty software. “I am personally appalled by the evidence we have seen,” Paul Patterson, Europe director at Fujitsu Services, … Read more