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By ETX Daily Up – Aug 15, 2023 A version of this article was first published on Free Malaysia Today PARIS: As a child, you might remember lying on the grass and following the white lines formed in the blue sky by passing airplanes with your finger. Called “contrails,” these white streaks are far less…

By ETX Daily Up – Aug 15, 2023 A version of this article was first published on FreeMalaysiaToday PARIS: Artificial intelligence programmes like Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are enjoying great success thanks to their ability to create images from a few lines of text. Their creations impress as much as they raise questions, leading to fears…

By FMT Reporters – 18 Jul, 2023 A version of this article was first published on Free Malaysia Today Electronic devices have become an integral part of everyday life. We navigate traffic with them, indulge in entertainment on them, and even use them to capture memories. However, with the rapid advancement of technology comes a…

By ETX Daily Up – July 18, 2023 A version of this article was first published on FreeMalaysiaToday PARIS: In Japan, a new type of multilingual device is currently being tested in a Tokyo train station. It enables users to converse face-to-face with a transport company agent, while speaking their own language, and seeing the…

By Kyle Wiggers – July 14, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Over the past two years, AI-powered image generators have become commodified, more or less, thanks to the widespread availability of — and decreasing technical barriers around — the tech. They’ve been deployed by practically every major tech player,…

By Brian Heater – July 13, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Inventory robots are having a moment. Two days back, Swiss firm Verity announced an $11 million raise. That followed a $20 million round from fellow drone inventory startup B Garage, which, in turn, arrived two days after Gather AI announced it had acquired…

By Aria Alamalhodaei– Jul 13, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Silicon Valley loves its wunderkinds, but the same cannot be said of Washington, D.C., where the central mandate is not to take risks, but to de-risk. Or that’s how it’s been until recently. The two American power centers have…

By AFP – Jul 1, 2023 A version of this article was first published on Free Malaysia Today SEOUL: A South Korean-made robot made its debut as an orchestra conductor before a sell-out crowd in Seoul yesterday, wowing the audience with a flawless performance in place of a human maestro. Named “EveR 6”, the 1.8m…

By Rebecca Bellan – Jun 29, 2023 A version of this article was first published on TechCrunch Halo.Car, a startup that uses remote operators to deliver rental cars to a customer’s door, has launched driverless operations in Las Vegas. Driverless operations mean something different for Halo than they do for autonomous vehicle companies like Cruise or Waymo because Halo’s…