India announced sweeping rules to regulate social media firms, streaming services, and digital news outlets, joining a handful of other nations in posing new challenges for giants such as Facebook and Google that count Asia’s third-largest economy as its biggest market…
IBM is reported to be considering a sale of Watson Health, an indication of the challenges of applying AI in healthcare. IBM continues to invest in cloud services using Watson. (Photo by Carson Masterson on Unsplash.) By John P. Desmond, AI…
The Facebook-Australia news battle seems to have reached an end, Android gets an update and Lucid Motors is going public via SPAC. This is your Daily Crunch for February 23, 2021. The big story: Facebook brings news sharing back to…
After online dating’s tremendous 2020 growth that culminated in last week’s epic Bumble IPO, a new entrant has tossed its hat into the dating app ring. Snack, founded by Kimberly Kaplan, looks to merge the popularity and format of TikTok…
Twitter recently held talks to acquire Indian social media startup ShareChat as the company explored ways to expand its presence in the world’s second largest internet market and build a global rival to TikTok, three sources familiar with the matter…
After garnering an estimated 8 million downloads since its launch, Clubhouse’s popularity continues across the world and even outside of its original tech-focused seed community. The latest news comes from East Asia, where Korean media reported this morning that the…
WhatsApp said earlier this week that it will allow users to review its planned privacy update at “their own pace” and will display a banner to better explain the changes in its terms. But what happens to its users who…
We explore the fallout of Facebook’s news ban, WhatsApp addresses privacy concerns and Perseverance lands on Mars. This is your Daily Crunch for February 18, 2021. The big story: Facebook’s Australian news ban is pretty broad Yes, this was the…
Some applications are best developed using straightforward rule-based AI and others fit a machine learning approach. Learn which is which. (Credit: Getty Images) By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor AI is not tossing out all the rules and methods of software development…
Volkswagen has ramped up its collaboration with Microsoft to develop software for its Automated Driving Platform. (Credit: Volkswagen/Microsoft) By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Volkswagen Group’s collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud-based Automated Driving Platform (ADP), a collaboration…
