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MICHAEL LIEDTKE

MICHAEL LIEDTKE

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Why Apple is pushing the term 'spatial computing' along with its new Vision Pro headset

With Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset hitting store shelves Friday, you’re probably to start to see more people wearing the futuristic googles that are supposed to usher in the age of “spatial computing.”

Why Apple is pushing the term 'spatial computing' along with its new Vision Pro headset
Business|Finance|Technology|US

GM's troubled robotaxi service faces another round of public ridicule in regulatoryhearing

General Motors’ troubled robotaxi service Cruise on Tuesday endured a public lashing from a California judge who compared the company to the devious TV character Eddie Haskell for its behavior following a ghastly collision that wrecked its ambitious expansion plans

GM's troubled robotaxi service faces another round of public ridicule in regulatoryhearing
Science|Technology

Google's Gemini AI app to land on phones, making it easier for people to connect to a digital brain

Google has introduced a free artificial intelligence app that will implant the technology on smartphones

Google's Gemini AI app to land on phones, making it easier for people to connect to a digital brain
Business|Technology

Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech

Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees

Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech
Business|Lifestyle|Technology

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer discusses the current tech scene from vantage point of her AI startup

Marissa Mayer has long been an inspiration for innovative women battling to break through the gender barriers in the male-dominated technology industry

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer discusses the current tech scene from vantage point of her AI startup
Business|Finance|Technology

CEOs of OpenAI and Intel cite artificial intelligence's voracious appetite for processing power

Two tech CEOs scrambling to produce more of the sophisticated chips needed for artificial intelligence have met for a brainstorming session while the market’s early leader reported another quarter of eye-popping growth

CEOs of OpenAI and Intel cite artificial intelligence's voracious appetite for processing power
Opinion

'Burn Book' torches tech titans in veteran reporter's tale of love and loathing in Silicon Valley

Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them

'Burn Book' torches tech titans in veteran reporter's tale of love and loathing in Silicon Valley
Entertainment|Lifestyle

Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices

An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969

Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices
Business|Europe|News|Technology

Apple is making big App Store changes in Europe over new rules. Could it mean more iPhone hacking?

Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that’s striving to give consumers more choices

Apple is making big App Store changes in Europe over new rules. Could it mean more iPhone hacking?
Business|Europe|Technology

Apple reverses course and clears way for Epic Games to set up rival iPhone app store in Europe

Apple has reversed course under regulatory pressure and cleared the way for a nettlesome adversary, video game maker Epic Games, to set up an alternative store for iPhone apps in Europe

Apple reverses course and clears way for Epic Games to set up rival iPhone app store in Europe
Business|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology|US

Apple to pay $490 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about iPhone sales in China

Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone’s sales in China

Apple to pay $490 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about iPhone sales in China
Business|Finance|Technology

The inside story of a rotten Hewlett Packard deal to be told in trial of fallen British tech star

An $11 billion acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard more than a decade ago is being resurrected at a trial that exploring whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management

The inside story of a rotten Hewlett Packard deal to be told in trial of fallen British tech star
Business|News|Technology

Reddit poised to make its stock market debut after IPO prices at $34 per share amid strong demand

Reddit will enter a new era as a publicly traded company with a market value of $6.4 billion

Reddit poised to make its stock market debut after IPO prices at $34 per share amid strong demand
Business|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

Reddit, the self-anointed the 'front page of the internet,' set to make its stock market debut

Reddit and its eclectic bazaar of online communities is ready to plumb high-stakes territory — the stock market

Reddit, the self-anointed the 'front page of the internet,' set to make its stock market debut
Business|News|Technology|US

Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit

The Justice Department has announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors and stifles innovation

Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit
Business|Technology

Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago

Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke
Business|News|Technology|US

Google to purge billions of files containing personal data in settlement of Chrome privacy case

Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser

Google to purge billions of files containing personal data in settlement of Chrome privacy case
Business|MidEast|News|Technology|World

Google fires 28 workers in aftermath of protests over big tech deal with Israeli government

Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal

Google fires 28 workers in aftermath of protests over big tech deal with Israeli government
Business|Entertainment|Finance|Technology

Netflix now has nearly 270 million subscribers after another strong showing to begin 2024

Netflix gained another 9.3 million subscribers to start the year while its still-emerging expansion into advertising helped produce financial results that exceeded analysts’ estimates

Netflix now has nearly 270 million subscribers after another strong showing to begin 2024
Business|Finance|Technology

Google parent reports another quarter of accelerating growth and its stock price soars

Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc. has released a quarterly report showing it’s still reaping double-digit revenue gains from its digital advertising empire while sowing potentially lucrative new ground in artificial intelligence

Google parent reports another quarter of accelerating growth and its stock price soars
Business|News|US

Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws that helped build their technology empires

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone

Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws that helped build their technology empires
Business|Economy|Technology

Apple's quarterly iPhone sales plunge 10%, but stock price surges on dividend, stock buyback news

Apple has posted its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset

Apple's quarterly iPhone sales plunge 10%, but stock price surges on dividend, stock buyback news
Business|Technology

Judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options

A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether Apple has set up a gauntlet of exasperating hurdles to discourage the use of alternative payment options in iPhone apps, despite a court order seeking to create more ways for consumers to pay for digital services

Judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options
News|Technology

Google unleashes AI in search, raising hopes for better results and fears about less web traffic

Google has rolled out a retooled search engine that will frequently favor responses crafted by artificial intelligence over website links

Google unleashes AI in search, raising hopes for better results and fears about less web traffic
Business|US

Top Apple exec acknowledges shortcomings in effort to bring competition in iPhone app payments

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller has acknowledged a court-ordered makeover of the U.S. payment system in its iPhone app store hasn’t done much to increase competition — a shortcoming that could result in a federal judge demanding more changes

Top Apple exec acknowledges shortcomings in effort to bring competition in iPhone app payments

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