Month: November 2024

World’s most valuable company delights investors as it reports $35bn of revenue in quarterly results The AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company and the engine of the artificial-intelligence boom, rolled out another set of quarterly results on Wednesday to investors’ delight. The company, whose value has soared by $2.2tn this year to $3.6tn …

Nvidia earnings: AI chip leader shows no signs of stopping mammoth growth Read More »

Tenth generation Apple smartwatch gets a bigger screen and body overhaul, but blink and you might miss it A larger screen and thinner body mark the biggest change to the Apple Watch in years, but you might have to squint to see it. That is because Apple has kept much the same design on the …

Apple Watch Series 10 review: thinner, lighter and basically the same Read More »

Justice department urges court to force Google to share data with rivals as part of wide-ranging changes to end online giant’s monopoly on web searching Alphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, US …

Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing Read More »

Prosecutors hailed ‘first FTX cooperator to come in the door’, helping put away Sam Bankman-Fried for decades An apologetic FTX co-founder was sentenced on Wednesday to no time in prison after a prosecutor and a federal judge praised his cooperation against Sam Bankman-Fried and his efforts to recover money for victims of the cryptocurrency fraud. …

FTX co-founder Gary Wang receives no prison sentence for crypto fraud Read More »

There are no federal privacy regulations to protect your information – here’s how you can do it yourself Welcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column in which we help you navigate your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. The last column covered how to talk to your family about not …

Opt out: how to stop tech companies spying on your phone as Trump promises mass deportations Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: The shortlist for December’s Game Awards is out, and the top contenders are neck and neck • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Much like Christmas is a lot less enjoyable for the person who has to organise all the presents and cook the dinner, game-of-the-year …

From Astro Bot to Balatro, the 2024 ‘game of the year’ race is too close to call Read More »

Omar Abdulaziz, critic of crown prince now living in Canada, targeted by Saudi agents in 2014 security breach A prominent Saudi dissident who worked closely with Jamal Khashoggi said he will pursue further legal action against X after a US appeals court said that a 2014 security breach of the company – then known as …

Saudi dissident pursues X legal case amid fears of transnational repression Read More »

Casio says Moflin can develop its own personality and build a rapport with its owner – and it doesn’t need food, exercise or a litter tray. But is it essentially comforting or alienating? It looks faintly like one half of a small pair of very fluffy slippers. It squeaks and wriggles and nestles in the …

Can a fluffy robot really replace a cat or dog? My weird, emotional week with an AI pet Read More »

The launch was Starship’s sixth experimental flight following first successful test in June Donald Trump joined Elon Musk in Texas on Tuesday to watch a successful test launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, a demonstration of the unprecedented closeness between the world’s richest man and the newly chosen president of the United States. Trump tweeted in …

Donald Trump joins Elon Musk for SpaceX Starship rocket launch Read More »

Commons inquiry into rise of harmful content on social media also expected to call Meta and TikTok executives MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content, the Guardian has learned. Senior executives …

MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in UK summer riots Read More »