Robotaxis are the latest place to have sex
Drivers never interrupt
San Franciso’s robotic taxis are becoming a place for couples to have sex according to the the San Francisco Standard.
Judge allows Apple to pay up in phone throttling case
After a long-running court battle
A US court has signed off on a deal where Apple pays money to owners of older iPhones in what was dubbed as one of the "one of the largest consumer frauds in history."
Quantum computers could turbo-charge AI
Give it the muscle it needs
Quantum computing could turbo-charge AI into something "massively, universally transformative," according to the South China Morning Post.
Big Tech mulls leaving the UK
Too much post Brexit regulation
Big Tech is considering leaving the UK because they are being swamped with more regulation than they see in the EU.
SanDisk silent as portable SSDs blasted
Extreme-series portable SSDs wipe data and become unmountable
The tech press is getting considerably tetchy as SanDisk refuses to comment on the fact its Extreme range portable SSD’s wipe data and become unmountable.
Virgin Galactic put half a dozen primarily rich people into space
They landed safely
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity, the reusable rocket-powered space plane carrying the company's first crew of tourists to space, successfully launched and landed on yesterday.
CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE form OpenELA
Taking revenge on Red Hat
CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have formed the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA).
Universal Music Group and Google want to dig up dead pop stars with AI
Keep cutting tracks long after the singer is dead
Universal Music Group and Google are considering developing a tool that people can use to create AI-generated music using popular artists' voices and melodies.
Supermarket AI app starts offers recipes to kill Kiwis
Why don’t you make some nice mosquito-repellent roast potatoes?
A New Zealand supermarket’s AI-based App seems to be doing its bit for eugenics by killing off the less intelligent hobbits in Middle Earth.
China spends big on Nvidia chips
Wants them for its generative AI systems
China's internet giants have ordered more than $5 billion of high-performance Nvidia chips to build generative AI systems.