SpaceX announced on Friday that the Crew Dragon reusable manned spaceship carrying space tourists on board was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as a component of the Axiom commercial program. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the ship from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:49 p.m. U.S. East Coast time on Thursday. The ship's crew includes...

Research firm Gartner has projected that global investment on information technology (IT) will reach over $5 trillion in 2024, an increase of 6.8%. In October, Gartner released its prior projection, which called for growth to $5.1 trillion, an increase of 8%. Through 2023, it is anticipated that global IT spending will rise by 3.3% to $4.68 trillion. Although generative artificial...

Autonomous driving technology accounted for the majority of patents in the US. South Korean company Samsung Electronics has taken the top place for the past two years in terms of the total number of patents acquired in the US. Analytical firm IFI Claims Patent Services analyzed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data, and placed Qualcomm Inc. on the second place and Taiwan Semiconductor...

Other Big 4 international auditors are not very optimistic. According to the Financial Times, EY, one of the "Big Four" international auditors, has tested an artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to identify fraud on some of its clients' accounts and has found encouraging results. According to Kathryn Barrow, managing partner at EY UK and Ireland, the AI system found suspicious conduct...

US General Motors will halt production of robotaxis, writes Barron's citing the company’s statement. "We are finalising production of a small number of pre-commercial vehicles and then plan to temporarily suspend production," a spokesperson for General Motors stated. At the same time, no significant modifications in the company's strategy are expected, according to the publication. "We believe...

Falcon 9 vehicle successfully launched another batch of 23 mini-satellites into orbit to refill the orbital constellation of the Starlink system's global Internet coverage network, SpaceX reports. The rocket took off from the 40th launch pad at the US Space Force installation in Florida, Cape Canaveral. This is the 121st Starlink’s launch since May 2019, and the 52nd since the start of the...

According to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, there should be four requirements for safety measures to "understand and mitigate the risks" connected to the application of artificial intelligence (AI). She listed them speaking at the first summit on the safe use of AI in the UK. "First and foremost, we require a robust, autonomous scientific community with the...

Google, a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc., has declared its intention to begin producing Pixel smartphones in India. These will be the newest, eighth series of Pixels. They will go on sale early in 2024. Google senior vice president Rick Osterloh stated, "We are committed to delivering the best hardware and software solutions to customers in India." India is a priority market for...

According to a press release from Nvidia, the United States' Nvidia Corp. and Taiwan's Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) will collaborate to develop new kinds of data centers (DCs), or so-called artificial intelligence (AI) factories. Foxconn plans to utilize Nvidia's technology to construct data centers for a range of applications, including digital manufacturing, AI-driven robotics and...