Tech & Innovation

The algorithm: Letters of recommendation

The making of the recommendation formulas that influence what we stream, shop, and see online today.

Video game remakes: Revival of the fittest

The games you loved once? Get ready to spend money on them a second time.

Green steel: Structural change

What if we changed not just the materials we used to make things, but the way we make our materials?

VR headsets: We’re practically there

Virtual reality has always been a future-tech promise, but today’s applications are more practical than you might expect

Vision to Launch

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Discover how the industrial metaverse is transforming customer and employee interactions

Grab your digital hard hat to see how new technologies are changing the way companies collaborate inside and out in this new interactive experience.

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Evolution of Innovation

Google paid Apple $20 billion to be Safari’s default search engine

Robotaxis wouldn't be able to dodge traffic tickets under new California bills

Google's growth plans aren't so 'hunky-dory' anymore, search boss says

How recommendation algorithms shape everything we interact with online

TED Conference 2024

AI is ‘a new kind of digital species,’ Microsoft AI chief says

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman said AI is the “fastest and most consequential wave” of creation ever

Bill Ackman says he’s ‘learned a lot’ from Elon Musk’s free-wheeling X

The activist investor was a main speaker at this year’s annual TED conference

Rocio Fabbro

Google will spend more than $100 billion on AI, exec says

Just last month, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said the billions of dollars being poured into AI is reminiscent of the cryptocurrency hype

Innovation Abroad

Apple's iPhone sales in China fell almost 20% — its worst quarter since 2020

Apple's share of China's smartphone market shrunk due to competition with Chinese sellers, including Huawei and Vivo

Apple might start making iPhones in Indonesia, CEO Tim Cook says

Chinese companies use U.S. chips from Intel and AMD — and China would like them to stop

Apple made $14 billion worth of iPhones in India as it shifts away from China

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Hyundai and Kia are the latest carmakers strengthening EV ties in India

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AI Unlocked

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Microsoft made an ‘air-gapped’ AI for spies that’s walled off from the internet

American intelligence agencies will use an AI system from Microsoft that's isolated from the internet to process classified work

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That powerful new AI chatbot that mysteriously vanished has now returned

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Trump's former campaign chief wants to use AI to transform American politics

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The Rabbit R1 broke and a ChatGPT outage might be to blame

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A powerful and mysterious ChatGPT competitor arrived. And then it disappeared

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Quartz Innovators

How Amazon's satellite leader is slinging more computers (and competition) into space

As the head of Project Kuiper, Rajeev Badyal has big plans for building a satellite internet competitor to SpaceX

Mara Johnson-Groh

Meet the software developers bringing touch to VR

Faustine Ngila

In the clean-energy future, every battery will have a passport

Ethan Freedman

This climate tech startup is reducing emissions—by feeding seaweed to cattle

Hannah Seo

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue wants an AI democracy

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Mobile World Congress 2024

The best new gadgets right now

Here are all the best laptops, headsets, and wearables we checked out in February

Lenovo announced a transparent laptop at MWC

ThinkBook and ThinkPads are getting other updates, too, the company announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Cool gadgets from the Mobile World Congress — including some you may never see again

Concepts were key at this year’s international mobile trade show, including a few devices that will likely never see the light of day.

Google announced a bunch of new AI features for Android at MWC

Look forward to more ways to interact with Gemini, including from inside Google Messages.

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The biggest AI debuts and gadgets announced at this year's Mobile World Congress

From Humane's wearable AI-powered assistant to plans for AI PCs, here's some of what was on display in Barcelona

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