Category: Technology

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has said that he wants Apple to make its iPhones in the US instead of overseas. To push this, he’s threatening a 25% tariff on iPhones that are made abroad but sold in America. He believes this will bring jobs back home. But experts are not so sure. Can taxes on imported phones really change where Apple builds its products? Trump’s bid to bring manufacturing of iPhone to the US faces many legal and economic challenges, experts said on Friday – the least of which…

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The first phase of a massive new artificial intelligence data center in the United Arab Emirates will come online in 2026, likely with 100,000 Nvidia chips. The “Stargate UAE” project is part of a deal brokered last week by US President Donald Trump to build the world’s largest set of AI data centers outside the United States, despite previous US restrictions on sending advanced technology to the UAE because of its close ties to China. The 10-square-mile — 26 square kms — site in Abu Dhabi will eventually host 5…

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Before Jupiter became the giant planet it is today, it was much larger and had a much stronger magnetic field, according to a recent study that peered back in time to depict what the planet looked like in its early years. New calculations show that just 3.8 million years after the formation of the first solid objects in the solar system, Jupiter was twice as massive as it is today and had a magnetic field at least 50 times stronger than it has now. A study that was published in…

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US-based start up Interlune has unveiled helium-3 harvestor prototype for a novel moon-mining machine. Rob Meyerson, co-founder and CEO of the Seattle-based startup Interlune said: “When you’re operating equipment on the moon, reliability and performance standards are at a new level.” The machine has been designed to churn up 110 tonnes (100 metric tonnes) of lunar dirt, or regolith, per hour to harvest helium-3, which is a potential fuel source for future fusion reactors. Moreover, helium-3 is rare on Earth but is thought to be plentiful on the moon, reported Space.com. “The…

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SEATTLE: Microsoft has teamed up with Elon Musk to host his AI chatbot, Grok, on its cloud platform. The partnership follows a recent backlash after Grok gave troubling answers online. Both sides say the move will make the chatbot more reliable and transparent. Musk told an event hosted by Microsoft that his company’s models “aspire to truth with minimal error,” adding, “There’s always going to be some mistakes that are made.” The Grok chatbot recently stirred controversy by responding to unrelated user prompts with unfounded right-wing claims about the supposed…

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REDMOND: Microsoft’s chief technologist said on Sunday that the company envisions a future where any company’s artificial intelligence agents can work together with agents from other firms and have better memories of their interactions. The company is holding its Build conference in Seattle on May 19, where analysts expect the company to unveil its latest tools for developers building AI systems. Speaking at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, ahead of the conference, Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott told reporters and analysts the company is focused on helping spur the adoption of…

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Scientists have predicted enigmatic space-time disruptions that occur, when two black holes pass close to one another, with greater accuracy than before. Published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, May 14, the new research demonstrates the usefulness of abstract mathematical ideas from theoretical physics in simulating space-time ripples. This opens the door to more accurate models that can be used to interpret observational data, reported Space.com. The motion of enormous objects such as neutron stars or black holes causes distortions in space-time known as gravitational waves. They were first directly…

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DOHA: US President Donald Trump asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to manufacture its products in the United States instead of India, while the tech giant responded it would be shifting production after US tariffs on China. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook,” Trump said, referring to Apple´s CEO, during a multi-day tour of the Gulf. “I said, Tim, we treated you really good. We put up with all the plants that you built in China for years now.” The president said he told Cook: “We´re not interested in…

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WhatsApp is developing a new optional feature that will allow users to reshare and forward status updates, expected to be rolled out in a future update. The new feature will let users of Meta’s popular instant messaging app decide whether their status updates can be shared, or scheduled for release in a future update, WABetaInfo reported. Currently, the ability to share a WhatsApp status update is limited. Users can only share a specific update if they are directly mentioned in it by one of their contacts, who then has the option to…

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NEW YORK: Even the top minds behind generative artificial intelligence, technology expected to reshape the world, acknowledge that they do not fully grasp how these digital systems think. “People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work,” wrote Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei in an online essay published in April. “This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology,” he added. In contrast to traditional software programmes that follow clearly defined logical instructions set by…

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