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TikTok plans to start labelling images and video uploaded to its video-sharing service that have been generated using artificial intelligence, it said on Thursday, using a digital watermark known as Content Credentials.
A new broadband service from Comcast comes with a sales pitch that looks like the work of a different company: no data cap, no hardware fees, no contract, and no prices that balloon after a promotional term. But the Philadelphia cable giant’s Now Internet, available as of Thursday throughout its service footprint after trials in Hartford-New Haven, Houston, and Miami, doesn’t replace its Xfinity-branded broadband. Instead, Now Internet is a prepaid offering with slower download speeds than most Xfinity plans, which usually start at 300Mbps and top out at 1.2Gbps or 2Gbps except in fiber-upgraded pockets of Comcast’s network, where subscribers willing to pay $300 a month can get 10Gbps—as well as cheaper and simpler pricing.
The construction for Garfield County’s Broadband Initiative has officially been completed, as the project — aiming to provide more reliable internet access to all parts of the county — reaches phase three. Last month
Is Starlink earning enough money to keep the business going? One analyst firm thinks so; it projects that SpaceX's satellite internet business is now "self-sustaining," with Starlink revenues projected to reach $6.6 billion this year. The estimate comes from Quilty Space, which developed a model that calculates Starlink's earnings potential since SpaceX, a private company, doesn't publicly reveal revenue and profits. Quilty estimates that Starlink has reached “free cash flow positive,” meaning it’s making enough money to cover all its operating expenses and investments, with some cash left over.
A few months ago, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to change its app store rules. They didn't. Now she's very angry. Plus, the Antitrust Division is gearing up to go at Big Medicine.
On Tuesday, near the back of the cavernous Washington Convention Center, past booth after colorful booth of federal agencies looking for AI solutions and a dizzying array of tech companies trying to pitch them, a Defense Department official had a message for startup founders, venture capitalists and the assembled national security crowd: Let’s bet on some winners. Doug Beck, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was speaking at a two-day AI expo that drew more than 7000 people to talk about technology, defense and China — and sell ideas to each other.
Microsoft must pay patent owner IPA Technologies $242 million, a federal jury in Delaware said on Friday after determining that Microsoft's Cortana virtual-assistant software infringed an IPA patent.
The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China and Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI models, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
A cryptocurrency nonprofit has launched a new political action committee (PAC) to raise money from its 440,000 members for crypto-friendly politicians, and is endorsing a bipartisan slate of candidates running in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Ad industry groups said the law includes "the most onerous and restrictive approach to data privacy in the United States to date."
Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc, (HBC) announces Multi-Gig Flight Fiber Internet is now available in Farmington, MN.
Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an online library offering more than 1.2 million books that can be translated into text-to-speech or digital Braille. But it can be a lot harder t
According to a report just released by the Pew Research Center, there are now 64 million American living in multigenerational homes. Pew’s definition of a multigenerational home is one that has adults of different generations over 25 years old living under the same roof. The age was set to 25 to exclude college students living…
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There’s a new plan to revive the Affordable Connectivity Program, a pandemic-era initiative that provides low-income households in the US with discounts on high-speed internet access. A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) have proposed using a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization measure as a vehicle for funding the ACP and other telecom programs for a combined $6 billion. The coalition includes Sens J.D. Vance (R-OH), Peter Welch (D-VT), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).
Hello, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Future in Five Questions. This week I interviewed the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s director Arati Prabhakar, who’s led the Biden administration’s hyperactive response to the artificial intelligence boom. Prabhakar discussed the White House’s “human choices”-centric approach to regulating AI, the relationship between her career in tech policy and “Groundhog Day,” and why there’s still room for the administration to “go big” even after its sweeping executive order. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows.
'Our bill gives Big Tech a choice: Work with Congress to ensure the Internet is a safe, healthy place for good, or lose Section 230 protections entirely,'
Apple is reportedly nearing a deal with OpenAI that would bring ChatGPT to the iPhone. The two are hammering out details of an agreement that would bring the chatbot to iOS 18, according to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter. Apple is reportedly also in talks with Google to potentially use its Gemini AI in the iPhone, but no deal has been finalized.
Leaders gathered at Broadband Communities Summit 2024 to discuss how to successfully gather local support for constructing a publicly owned network.
Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk's SpaceX, warned on Saturday of a "degraded service" as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades.
Meta Platforms is urging a federal appellate court to reconsider a recent 2-1 decision allowing Facebook advertisers to proceed with a class-action fraud lawsuit over inflated metrics.
Elon Musk's X has policies to take down harmful content when it chooses but should not be allowed to overrule Australian law in deciding what can be viewed there, a lawyer for the cyber regulator told a hearing into video of a bishop being stabbed.
May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping and evading X's own anti-scraping technology.
Rural America has lost over half a million farms in the past 40 years, increasing the need for connectivity to support the nation's agriculture.
Great Plains Communications has announced a new fiber network expansion that will reach over 5,000 homes and businesses in rural and urban stretches of Nebraska.
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