Month: March 2023

TikTok’s CEO eluded the spotlight. Now, a looming ban means he can’t avoid it

The typically low-key Shou Zi Chew faces his biggest test yet as he testifies before Congress over China influence concerns Shou Zi Chew is not a prolific TikToker. The 40-year-old CEO of the Chinese-owned app has just 23 posts and 17,000 followers to his name – paltry by his own platform’s standards. Chew’s profile sees …

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Six urgent questions TikTok’s CEO needs to answer for US lawmakers

Stakes are high for the app’s US future with the administration pushing for Chinese owners to sell their shares in the firm TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, will be questioned by lawmakers in Washington on Thursday with the app’s US future in severe doubt. The Biden administration wants TikTok’s Chinese owners to sell their …

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Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming

Engineers show 3D printing’s potential by turning cartridges of paste and powder into cheesecake It was perhaps no surprise, when researchers set out to push the boundaries of 3D printing, that their attempts to rattle out cheesecakes were not immediately successful. The first trial started well enough, but as the printer gradually built up the …

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A weekend with Diablo 4: bleak, brutal, and potentially brilliant

The newest instalment of the action-RPG is an enticing blend of old and new ideas offering a bleak, brutal and potentially brilliant return to form With a click of the right-mouse button, my musclebound barbarian sinks his axe into the ground behind him, sweeps it forward and creates a shock wave that obliterates everything in …

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The tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives

From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s how Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here What are the tipping points for an AI boom? Some are clear in hindsight. The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from …

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Will Google’s rush to join chatbot party with launch of Bard backfire?

Success of AI-powered rivals ChatGPT and Bing Chat has forced its hand, but release brings risks for tech giant Can Google save its golden goose or will it simply kill it trying? That’s the question that lurks behind the launch of the company’s Bard chatbot, hurriedly announced after the overnight success of ChatGPT in early …

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Amazon to cut another 9,000 jobs in new round of layoffs

Redundancies to take place mostly in cloud services, advertising and Twitch units Amazon is to cut another 9,000 jobs across its global business, mostly in its cloud services, advertising and Twitch livestreaming units, the internet retailer announced on Monday. Its chief executive, Andy Jassy, said in a letter to workers that the company had added …

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