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Technology
Uber forecasts gross bookings for second quarter below expectations
(Reuters) -Uber forecast second-quarter gross bookings below expectations after missing the target for the first three months on Wednesday, sending it shares down nearly 10% before the bell.
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Technology
EU asks X for details on reducing content moderation resources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has requested information from social media platform X on decreasing content moderation resources under the EU's Digital Services Act, it said on Wednesday.
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Technology
New York governor regrets saying Black kids in the Bronx don’t know what a computer is
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word “computer” means.
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Technology
Biden to unveil $3.3 billion Microsoft AI investment in battleground Wisconsin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit the political battleground state of Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce plans by Microsoft Corp to build a $3.3 billion high-tech data center that will create thousands of jobs, the White House said.
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Smartphones
Apple’s China iPhone shipments soar 12% in March after discounts
Chinese iPhone shipments jumped about 12% in March after Apple Inc and its retailers slashed prices, official data showed, suggesting efforts to arrest an accelerating decline in sales are yielding early results.
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Social media
Police in Vietnam arrest 20 for hacking Facebook accounts
Police in Vietnam have arrested 20 people for stealing and taking control of tens of thousands of Facebook accounts both domestically and internationally, state media said Wednesday, netting them nearly US$4mil in profit.
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Cybersecurity
Scammers use trojan horse virus to dupe 79-year-old SG man of RM605,000 of life savings
Right after booting up his desktop computer, a 79-year-old man received a supposed anti-virus pop-up notification alerting him that access to his device had been blocked.
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Technology
Hong Kong police foil dramatic robbery attempt caught on CCTV
Hong Kong police arrested five men who were attempting to rob a jewellery shop, with dramatic footage showing the masked assailants wielding machetes and sledgehammers in the store.
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Technology
UK tells tech firms to 'tame algorithms' to protect children
LONDON (Reuters) - Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will have to "tame" their algorithms to filter out or downgrade harmful material to help protect children under proposed British measures published on Wednesday.
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Technology
SoftBank in talks to buy AI chipmaker Graphcore, Bloomberg reports
(Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Group is in talks to buy artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker Graphcore, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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AI
Report: Chinese unicorn Zhipu AI to launch Sora rival as early as 2024 amid local race to catch up with OpenAI
The Beijing-based startup aims to release ‘high-quality text-to-video tools’ by this year the earliest, according to a Chinese media report. A recent assessment by Tsinghua University ranked Zhipu AI’s GLM-4 as one of the top two Chinese large language models.
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eWallet
Google Wallet now supports Maybank credit and debit cards, offering up to RM10 cashback on first use
Google Wallet has finally added support for Maybank credit and debit cards, now allowing Maybank customers to add their banking cards for offline payments via NFC.
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Social media
Man accused of abducting, raping 13-year-olds at Airbnb had plans for OnlyFans, US feds say
Nearly a year ago, two 13-year-old girls were walking down a central California street when they were forced into a car and taken to an Airbnb, where they were raped for days, according to court documents recently filed in federal court.
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Internet
China vows to crack down on school bullying after student’s murder sparks public outrage
The China authorities have vowed to crack down on school bullying after a recent string of high-profile cases, including the murder of a 13-year-old boy in March, sparked a huge public outcry.
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AI
Hong Kong authorities to install AI tech at country parks to spot wildfires, tally visitors. But can it see the wood for the trees?
Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department say using AI-based systems can ensure effective management of protected areas and save manpower‘. Management of these areas involves labour-intensive monitoring and surveillance work, such as land and sea patrols, as well as stationing of staff on-site,’ it adds.
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Gig economy
Injured Hong Kong delivery driver recovers RM7.28mil in suspected rhodium powder after ambush by robbers
Police say man, 52, was transporting items when white car collided with his vehicle in Sheung Shui and gang of four robbers attacked him and stole valuable metal. Driver pursued gang despite suffering head injuries, recovering backpack containing 10 containers holding 10kg of powdered substance believed to be rhodium.
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AI
OpenAI releases ‘deepfake’ detector to disinformation researchers
As experts warn that images, audio and video generated by artificial intelligence could influence the fall elections, OpenAI is releasing a tool designed to detect content created by its own popular image generator, DALL-E.
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Technology
Exclusive-Amazon breaks into Europe 5G networks with Telefonica cloud deal
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Telefonica Germany will move one million 5G customers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud later this month, company executives told Reuters, in a bold move by the U.S. online retailer to break into the global telecoms market.
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Internet
Murder trial opens in death of Detroit-area teen whose disappearance led to grueling landfill search
A man who dropped a Detroit-area teenager’s body in a dumpster “left behind a trail of digital evidence” implicating him in her death, despite a fruitless, extraordinary search to find the remains in a landfill, a prosecutor told jurors on May 7.
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Internet
Taylor Swift bill is signed into Minnesota law, boosting protections for online ticket buyers
People buying tickets online for concerts, sporting events and other live events in Minnesota will be guaranteed more transparency and protection under a so-called Taylor Swift bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Tim Walz.