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...and Tesla hits rocky patch (FT) China’s lidar technology faces intensified scrutiny in U.S....
...It is not yet clear how this new form of AI will affect the smartphone domain dominated by Apple....
...The technology is used every time an iPhone user asks Apple’s voice assistant Siri for information, types queries from the home screen, or uses the Mac’s “Spotlight” search feature....
...Everyone from SoftBank to Apple was investing in autonomous vehicles. Since then, however, the sector’s fortunes have waned....
...Available in the first quarter of 2022, but only in mainland China, it features Oppo’s Spark Micro Projector and supports four different user interactions through touch, voice, head movement and hand motion...
...Growing tensions between Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Apple lie behind the death of the Internet Association (IA), the nine-year-old lobby group that was Big Tech’s voice in Washington, according...
...The actions against Mr Trump and Parler have heightened debate on the powers of technology companies, as critics accuse them of seeking to regulate speech online and censoring conservative voices....
...the political domain....
...The virtue of these prompts was they generated participation and, arguably, overcame the “responder bias” that gave a loudspeaker to negative voices....
...In the clamour stirred up this week by the US government’s antitrust suit against Google, one voice has been noticeably absent: that of Microsoft....
...The second used the decentralised contact tracing framework developed by Apple and Google....
...As health threats go, air pollution and Covid-19 are apples and oranges....
...Apple, Amazon and Google have formed a rare alliance to improve smart home devices, in an effort to avoid a turf war that limits the market for gadgets powered by Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant....
...Qualcomm and Apple were locked in a patent fight for years before settling earlier this year....
...Throwing these capabilities together turned out to be harder than it looked, and it took the genius of Apple to produce the first coherent packaging of wristwear technology in the shape of its Watch....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on February 26, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...How technology is revolutionising healthcare From drones to databases, here are five innovations that could hold the key to universal health coverage....
...Google’s security warning also came hot on the heels of Apple’s apology this week for failing to disclose that contractors were listening to customers’ voice recordings when they used its virtual assistant...
...This new phase for Apple’s streaming service comes at a time when audiences for voice-based programming are growing rapidly....
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...The businesses that have the best technology in automotive software and apps are, unsurprisingly, technology companies such as Google, Apple and China’s Baidu, all of which are pouring money into autonomous...
...Within the span of a single month, several technology companies have embraced reputation-driven systems: Facebook and Apple now assign users a reputation score, a measure of their trustworthiness, while...
...Mr Garner said that while Facebook’s timing for the launch was “not good”, the company had already risked being left behind in a category pioneered by Amazon, with Apple and Google also making inroads....
...In demonstrations of the updated technology this week, the robot voice announced itself in one call to a restaurant as “Google’s automated booking service”, and in another as the Google Assistant....
...Amazon endured a technical snafu that marred its Prime Day sale and disrupted video streaming and voice assistants....
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