An often-overlooked but crucially important environmental issue—Big Tech’s growing water footprint—is coming under more public scrutiny as a result of a global rush to capitalize on the next wave of generative artificial intelligence. Researchers say the race to profit from the next wave of AI is one of the main causes of the significant increase…
Waze, a traffic navigation app developed by Google, will now alert you when you are traveling on a road with a crash history, the company said on Tuesday. Before they even get to that portion of the route, the feature will warn drivers that they are going into an area that is likely to have…
In a consultation paper, the U.K. government confirmed its intentions to regulate the cryptocurrency market, stating that it hopes to introduce formal legislation by 2024. The government released a response to a consultation paper that contained suggestions for regulating the cryptocurrency sector and was published earlier this year. The government stated in the paper that…
Activision Blizzard’s $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft has been completed, the company announced in a regulatory filing on Friday. It’s the biggest deal Microsoft has ever made in its 48-year history, and it comes after the company allayed regulators’ concerns about competition in the U.K. and Europe and won a favorable decision from a U.S….
