Technology

Bukit Aman: 49 cases of NSRC officer impersonation scams being investigated, RM6.79mil lost

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[ KUALA LUMPUR: The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) opened 49 investigation papers (IPs) regarding cases of individuals impersonating National Scam Response Centre (NSRC) officers, resulting in losses amounting to RM6.79mil, between January and April this year. Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said the call centre, established last year, … Read more

US revokes some licenses for exports to China’s Huawei

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[ The US Commerce Department confirmed that it has revoked some licenses allowing companies to ship tech to sanctioned Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. The United States has revoked some export licenses that allowed companies such as US chip firm Qualcomm to supply Chinese tech giant Huawei, the Commerce Department confirmed on Wednesday. The move adds … Read more

Microsoft’s Xbox is planning more cuts after studio closings

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[ The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished. This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for US$7.5bil (RM35.55bil), according to people familiar … Read more

Google unveils AI for predicting behaviour of human molecules

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[ SAN FRANCISCO: Artificial intelligence is giving machines the power to generate videos, write computer code and even carry on a conversation. It is also accelerating efforts to understand the human body and fight disease. On Wednesday, Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s central artificial intelligence lab, and Isomorphic Labs, a sister company, unveiled a more … Read more

Judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options

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[ People try out iPhone products at an Apple Store in Beijing, Sept. 28, 2021. A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether Apple has set up a gauntlet of exasperating hurdles to discourage the use of alternative payment options in iPhone apps, despite a court order seeking to create more ways for consumers to pay … Read more

Sperm whale speech – with ‘alphabet’ – is decoded. What other animals can AI translate?

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[ For years, scientists have listened to the clicks of sperm whales and wondered what they were saying. While previous research scratched the surface of understanding, a new study – published May 7 in the journal Nature Communications – uses machine learning to pinpoint specific patterns in their speech. With the help of artificial intelligence, … Read more

US judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options

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[ OAKLAND, California: A US federal judge on May 8 questioned whether Apple has set up a gauntlet of exasperating hurdles to discourage the use of alternative payment options in iPhone apps, despite a court order seeking to create more ways for consumers to pay for digital services. The verbal sparring between Judge Yvonne Gonzalez … Read more

Airbnb shares slide on lower revenue forecast despite a doubling of net income

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[ The Airbnb app icon is seen on an iPad screen on May 8, 2021, in Washington. Airbnb reports earnings on Wednesday, April 8, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File Airbnb’s profit more than doubled last quarter, but management’s disappointing revenue forecast sparked a roughly 7% drop fort its stock in after-market trading Wednesday. The … Read more

Delivery app Getir’s rise and fall fuelled by billions of dollars and strategy conflicts

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[ For Nazim Salur, it’s the end of a nearly decade-long dream to build a global delivery powerhouse out of Turkey. Getir, the rapid grocery app Salur cofounded from Istanbul in 2015, last week confirmed it will exit its remaining international operations. Once a poster child of pandemic growth valued at US$11.8bil (RM55.96bil), attracting investors … Read more

Australian startup mimics trees to make cheaper green hydrogen

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[ For emissions-free hydrogen to become a widespread climate solution, it has to get much cheaper. A startup in Australia claims it has a way to do that. Hysata, based in Wollongong, south of Sydney, has raised US$111mil (RM526mil) from investors to scale up its technology to produce hydrogen from electricity. The company’s advantage is … Read more