The Online Safety Bill (OSB), which was unveiled on May 12, 2021, is a proposed piece of legislation by the Parliament of the United Kingdom that seeks to enhance the safety of the internet. Building on the 2019 Online Harms White Paper, the Bill grants the Secretary of State the authority, pending Parliamentary endorsement, to…
SpaceX: The Launch of a 400-Feet Rocket
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) is an American aerospace manufacturer, satellite communications company, and launcher headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was established in 2002 by Elon Musk with the aim of making space transportation more affordable to facilitate Mars colonization. The company produces various launch vehicles such as Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship, as…
Unveiling of AI-generated Presenter in Kuwait
There has been a growing concern that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace human workers in various industries, leading to widespread job loss and economic disruption. This has sparked a heated debate about the future of work, with some arguing that AI will create new jobs and opportunities, while others worry that it will lead to…
ChatGPT Suspended in Italy
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s proprietary chatbot that was released in November 2022. This conversational style AI machine has been trained using generative pre-trained transformer models and subsequently fine-tuned using human-supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. With the core function of a chatbot being to mimic a human conversationalist, ChatGPT supersedes those functionalities with abilities like music composition, answering…
Six Months Break For AI
Artificial Intelligence is an all-time favorite around here, so I was definitely going to write about the open letter that is currently calling for a pause on advanced AI development. The Future of Life Institute is a non-profit research institute that works to minimize catastrophic and existential (human-extinction level) risks facing humanity, particularly from advanced…
Apple Joins the “Buy Now, Pay Later” Team
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a form of financing that traces back to the 19th century, when installment plans emerged as a way for consumers to buy expensive goods they couldn’t afford to buy outrightly. This is a type of short-term financing that allows consumers make purchases and pay for them as a future…
Honda recalls 500,000 defective vehicles
Honda Motor Co. is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959 reaching a production of 400 million by the end of 2019, as well as the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines (measured by…
Meta (Facebook-parent) cuts 10,000 jobs again
The lay off frenzy across big tech isn’t over yet. In my previous post about Tech Winter, I recounted mass workforce reduction that started in 2022, that saw Meta cut about 11,000 jobs. On October 28, 2021, the parent company of Facebook changed its name from Facebook, Inc., to Meta Platforms, Inc., to “reflect its…
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Down
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was a commercial bank headquartered in California, US. SVB was on the list of largest banks in the United States and was the biggest bank in Silicon Valley based on local deposits, with a 25.9% market share as of June 30, 2016. It was a subsidiary of SVB Financial Group, a…
Apple: Game-Changer for Diabetes Management
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling $365.8 billion in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world’s biggest company by market capitalization, the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales and second-largest mobile phone manufacturer. Apple has reportedly…