By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Delta Air Lines is rolling out free Wi-Fi to most of its planes beginning February 1. “It’s going to be free, it’s going to be fast and its going to be available for everyone,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He added that
Continue ReadingCNN By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Delta Air Lines is rolling out free Wi-Fi to most of its planes beginning February 1. “It’s going to be free, it’s going to be fast and its going to be available for everyone,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He added
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Korn Getty Images announced a lawsuit against Stability AI, the company behind popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, alleging the tech company committed copyright infringement. The stock image giant accused Stability AI of copying and processing millions of its images without obtaining the proper licensing, according to a press release issued Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn and Samantha Kelly, CNN New York City public schools will ban students and teachers from using ChatGPT, a powerful new AI chatbot tool, on the district’s networks and devices, an official confirmed to CNN on Thursday. The move comes amid growing concerns that the tool, which generates eerily convincing responses and even
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Chinese tech giants are witnessing a dream start to the year. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index — a popular index tracking Chinese firms listed in the United States — soared 13% in the first two trading days of 2023, marking its best start to a year on record, according to
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Sony and Honda, which announced a joint venture last year to develop and build electric cars, have revealed the name of their new car brand. It will be called Afeela. At a presentation during the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony Honda Mobility chief executive Yasuhide Mizuno revealed a prototype of the company’s
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Hang onto your baby bonnets: Self-driving technology is coming to strollers. Canadian-based baby gear startup Gluxkind was showing off its Ella AI Powered Smart Stroller at this year’s CES, the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas that offers some of the most cutting edge — and out-there — new technologies. The
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple is raising the price of battery replacements for all out-of-warranty iPhone models prior to the current iPhone 14 lineup, the company confirmed on its website. Starting March 1, Apple will charge $89 for battery replacements for iPhone X through iPhone 13 models, a $20 increase from the current
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business A new take on a foldable phone. A pricey toilet sensor that monitors hydration and vitamin levels. And an AI-powered oven. The Consumer Electronics Show, now in its 56th year, kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a familiar mix of cutting edge technology and oddball gadgets. The
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Salesforce said Wednesday that it will cut approximately 10% of its workforce and reduce its real estate footprint, making it the latest tech company to slash expenses as broader economic uncertainty continues to hit Silicon Valley particularly hard. In a letter to employees announcing the job cuts, Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s chair
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Tesla’s China chief has reportedly been given a big promotion. Tom Zhu has been handed Tesla’s US assembly plants and sales operations in North America and Europe as additional responsibilities, leaving just the Berlin Gigafactory outside his remit, according to media reports on Tuesday. The reports have intensified speculation that China-born
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Korn and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Developers at a Microsoft-owned gaming studio voted on Tuesday to form the first ever US union at the tech giant, in a milestone moment both for the company and the video game industry. Some 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize with the
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Developers at a Microsoft-owned gaming studio voted on Tuesday to form the first ever US union at the tech giant, in a milestone moment both for the company and the video game industry. Some 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize with the Communications
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A commercial landlord is suing Twitter for breach of contract after the company allegedly failed to pay rent for one of its offices in San Francisco. The lawsuit concerns Twitter’s office space at 650 California Street, not its main headquarters on Market Street. But it comes after media reports last month
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s market cap fell below $2 trillion in trading Tuesday for the first time since early 2021 and one year to the day after the company became the first public tech company valued at $3 trillion. Shares of Apple ended Tuesday down nearly 4% after a report raised concerns
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn One tech company is trying to help its employees kick off the new year with a clean slate, or at least an emptier calendar. In a memo to employees Tuesday, Shopify said it would do away with all previously scheduled recurring meetings involving three or more people and impose a “two-week cooling
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang and Juliana Liu, CNN Production at the world’s biggest iPhone factory, disrupted since October by China’s Covid-19 restrictions and worker protests, is now running at nearly full capacity, according to a Chinese state media report. The sprawling campus in central China, owned by Apple supplier Foxconn, was running at 90% of planned
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Millman, CNN TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China. GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin told NBC’s “Meet The Press” in an interview that aired Sunday that he calls TikTok “digital fentanyl” because “it’s highly addictive and
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN On the first trading day of 2022, Apple hit a new milestone for the tech industry: the iPhone maker became the first publicly traded company to hit a $3 trillion market cap, with Microsoft and Google not far behind. As eye-popping as that valuation was, there were headlines speculating about how
Continue ReadingCNN, WIBW By Andrew Millman, CNN TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China. GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin told NBC’s “Meet The Press” in an interview that aired Sunday that he calls TikTok “digital fentanyl” because “it’s highly
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