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First of all, who are the big seven tech companies? We are talking about the giants of the tech market, those who have ruled the industry for years now: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta and Tesla. However, recently the big seven have entered 'correction territory',which means that their combined share p...

When it comes to online security, one can never be too thorough or, in the case of the UK's watchdog, too little. The Information Commissioner's Office, in fact, recently reported that the Electoral Commission, currently in the spotlight thanks to last month's election, had not updated its security measures to protect ...

Is the great fascination with chatbots fading? According to the article in The Guardian that we're introducing today, and according to the statistics presented, the era of infatuation with this kind of artificial intelligence is coming to an end. As useful, immediate and almost futuristic as they appear, chatbots requi...

Nowadays, it's not enough protecting ourselves from cybercriminals intent on stealing private information, we must also pay close attention to so-called 'AI scrapers': computer programmes created to collect data from websites and then use them in the training of generative AI models. Following the impressive rise of t...

Neuralink, the famous American neurotechnology company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk, has recently started testing its flagship product. After developing its own brain-computer interface that can be implanted inside patients' brain matter, the process of finding a subject willing to test the device has begun. The f...

After months of apparent silence regarding cryptocurrencies, a recent announcement by former US President Donald Trump seems to be changing the fortunes of the bitcoin market. Due to the rapid rise and spread of artificial intelligence, followed of course by intense media coverage, the crypto economy has fallen victim ...

Runway is an applied artificial intelligence research company that aims to shape the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity. To achieve this coveted goal, the company recently released an AI specialised in video generation. The launch of the Jupiter model, released as Gen-3, was an immediate success withi...

Elon Musk, the famous businessman and investor behind the car company Tesla, recently announced a new goal for the company via a post on X (formerly known as Twitter). What the entrepreneur wrote promises ‘genuinely useful humanoid robots for internal Tesla use during the next year and hopefully for other companies i...

According to Nature, a British scientific journal specialising in peer-reviewed research into various academic disciplines, researchers at the University of Hull, UK, are using the CAS astronomical system to analyse the light reflected in a subject's eyes within an image. The technique in question is a method often us...

If you had the opportunity to converse with your favorite character, what would you say to them? If you could communicate with that figure who accompanied you in the dark moments of your adolescence, or that hero whose adventures you were so passionate about, how would you approach the conversation? Despite being compl...

Within the world of artificial intelligence, copying the works of others seems to be an everyday occurrence. Copyright violations for artworks used as "training" material for AI models are only the beginning; some softwares generate content that is almost completely identical to the source. Figma, more specifically, i...

As mentioned in thearticle on greenwashing published during the summer of last year, the health of our planet is being put at risk on a daily basis. The "climate-friendly" policies of big companies often turn out to be clear attempts aimed at gaining consumer trust, which is irretrievably broken once the activity is ex...

The implementation of artificial intelligence within the television media industry is not exactly new; during last summer, the United States was the stage for the complex conflict between SAG-AFTRA, WGA and AMPTP - the results of the whole affair came, after months and months of negotiations, during the first week of N...

The renowned artificial intelligence company OpenAI recently fell victim to a hacker attack that breached its security protocols. However seemingly superficial, the risk presented by this incident is a stark reminder of the relentless determination of cybercriminals, especially in the face of the priceless treasures th...

Why have a human owner when, in the age of technology, you can rely on an AI manager? The U.S. company Inspira has, in fact, recently released its own "autonomous AI manager," designed to help the agency's employees, who work remotely with flexible schedules, set schedules and plan their tasks in advance. Like a real ...

The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news outlet responsible for publishing "Reveal" and "Mother Jones," recently accused the creator of OpenAI, and its trusted business partner Microsoft, of Copyright infringement. More specifically, the association accused OpenAI of using its content without permissio...