Donald Trump’s win will affect Big Tech
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said US President-elect Donald Trump met him and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to congratulate them on their victory. “I know we all have similar goals for our countries,” he added. Trump had said in a video that he planned to “toughen up” Apple’s encryption policy, adding, “Apple is one of the world’s most valuable people.”
Scientists worldwide react to the Trump election win
After US President Donald Trump won re-election in the presidential election, scientists have said that there’ll be a “marked reduction” in scientific cooperation with China. They added that Trump’s administration could also withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord and restrict AI development. Meanwhile, scientists also said that there is no clear plan for reviving the China Initiative.
Smashing atomic nuclei reveals their shapes
Physicists have created a new method to see the shape of atomic nuclei using high-energy collisions. Current methods, which take a long-exposure photo of the nucleus, don’t capture the subtle variations in how the protons and neutrons arrange themselves. The method overcomes this by colliding the nucleus together and then using the debris to reconstruct the nucleus’s shape.
The Apple MacBook Pro was reviewed and it was found to have more power
Apple’s latest MacBook Pro M4 may reportedly cost about $3,649, which is more than the price of the original M3 model. The new MacBook Pro features Apple’s latest M4 CPU, which has been updated to be “more power-efficient” than the M3 model, according to a report. The latest MacBook Pro is set to go on sale on May 7.
What are the steps voting machine companies are taking to avoid 2020
The political action committee (PAC) of entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched a group on X, Election Integrity Community, to share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities seen while voting in the 2024 US elections. The group has over 50,000 users and says it is meant to be a place where users can share “potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities”.
The garage door is not simple to open
WIRED’s Bay Area journalists, Michael Calore, Zo Schiffer, and Lauren Goode, are the hosts of a new podcasts, ‘Uncanny Valley’. In the podcast, the hosts will untangle and explain the latest and greatest trends from within the tech industry and how they’re poised to shape society at large. With this, they’ll counterbalance that smart talk with a healthy dose of the weird stuff.
The America PAC created an Election Denial Cesspool
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reinstated accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Andrew Tate, both of which were banned by Twitter years ago. Twitter had banned them for “engaging in targeted targeting of public figures” ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. Earlier, Musk had also reinstated accounts of Jones and Tate, who were banned several years ago.
It was not the Amazon Skills revolution that was happening
Amazon skipped its annual’hardware event’ in Los Angeles this year due to reports that the company was far from achieving its promised new voice assistant. This comes amid reports that the new voice assistant could be months away from being available. Alexa was launched in 2015 and reportedly has over 1.6 lakh different skills on its platform.