The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is focusing its efforts on going after Big Tech, according to FTC Chair Lina Khan, who spoke at TechCrunch’s Strictly VC event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Khan said the agency is focused on going after the players that are doing the biggest harm, as opposed to just increasing the number of cases that it brings forward.
“One thing that’s been important for me is to make sure that we’re actually looking at where we see the biggest harm,” Khan said.
The FTC and the Department of Justice have struck a deal to investigate Microsoft, Open AI and Nvidia over potential antitrust violations, according to The New York Times.
The types of cases that the FTC selects can act as a deterrent, she said, noting that the FTC is already seeing that happen.
If this had been announced exactly a week prior, it would have been easy to mistake for some corporate April Foolery.
Dyson, however, assures us that augmented reality vacuuming is real and coming in June — slightly belated for spring cleaning, sadly.
When it launches over the summer, CleanTrace will be available for the Dyson Gen5detect system.
It’s not going to tip over anyone who’s on the fence about a $700 ultra-premium vacuum, but this is hardly the most ridiculous thing Dyson has shown the world.
“We realized that we could all learn a thing or two from the methodical cleaning approach of our robot vacuums,” Dyson VP of engineering Charlie Park notes.
Former president Donald Trump’s digital media company is losing money, and lots of it.
But why is that any different from other “startups,” which often struggle to post a profit for years, if they ever do?
Truth Social, the main business of TMTG, has failed to attract more than a few million users.
Truth Social, the main business of TMTG, has failed to attract more than a few million users.
By the time Trump is able to sell his shares, it’s likely this company will be worth anything like what it supposedly is today.
We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized.
Sandra Wachter is a professor and senior researcher in data ethics, AI, robotics, algorithms and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute.
She’s also a former fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, the U.K.’s national institute for data science and AI.
What are some issues AI users should be aware of?
Bad data, bad algorithms and bad design choices lead to worse products.
The category has seen success and has accordingly gone from one or two competitors to around a dozen.
Shure, on the other hand, makes some of the most beloved microphones across multiple industries.
The category has been hit or miss lately, so I’m excited to see what Shure has on offer here.
The mics pair to a phone without needing the receiver.
Also, one key thing the DJI unit has that these don’t is the ability to plug a wired lav mic directly into the clip-on, making it more camera-ready.
More specifically, it’s a foldable concept device from Lenovo/Motorola showcased on the floor at this year’s MWC.
The company walked us through a demo of a device that’s another terrific example of its ability to get weird with design.
ItHighlights that there’s absolutely zero guarantee the device will ever become a product and Points to why the company is being a bit stingy with demos.
Lenovo says rollable has multiple batteries – though it won’t disclose how many.
Compared to the competition, the Chinese company is fearless when it comes to getting weird with product design – something I’m fully in favor of.
Something I’ve always admired about Lenovo is the way the Chinese tech giant really lets its freak flag fly.
In fact, visiting the company’s booth nestled in the way, way back of Hall 3 has long been a highlight of MWC for me.
This year’s big scrum gatherer was Lenovo’s long-rumored transparent laptop.
Broadly speaking, it looks like a laptop, with a transparent pane where the screen should be.
Lenovo loves making weird tech for weird tech’s sake, and that’s totally fine.
The back of your phone is useless.
Sure, the cameras are back that, but what about all of that blank real estate monopolizing 90% of the surface area?
The Infinix E-Color Shift improves upon Yota’s phone somewhat, by adding color to the mix.
Like e-ink, however, the back panel does have the advantage of holding a static image even when the battery isn’t putting in the work.
It remains to be seen whether this gets licensed by a third party or simply shows up on an Infinix device.
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Apple’s Vision Pro launch resembles its Apple Watch debut in more ways than one, but to me the most telling similarity is in the marketing approach.
The company took the same approach with the Apple Watch, which like its face computer cousin, was more or less a solution in search of a problem when it originally debuted.
But the iPhone debuted with a much more focused, and much more accurate idea of what it would become for users than the Apple Watch did.
The Vision Pro, I’d argue, is even more adrift from how and why people will come to appreciate it.
It’s terrible at a lot of other things – chief among them being the next big thing in the vein of personal computing or mobile.
