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Technology giant Apple on Friday told a London tribunal that Britain's competition watchdog had "no power" to launch a probe into its mobile browsers because it did so too late.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened a full investigation in November into cloud gaming and mobile browsers over concerns about restrictions by iPhone-maker Apple, as well as by Google.Apple filed an appeal in January at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London and argues the investigation is "invalid". Its lawyer Timothy Otty said…

If an artificial intelligence machine can be named as an inventor for a patent, pet cats could be next, lawyers said at the UK's top court arguing only humans can be inventors in law. The UK's Supreme Court will decide whether an AI machine can be named as an inventor and who may own the patent. Imagination Engines Inc. founder, Stephen Thaler, challenged the rejection of his patent applications naming his AI machine as inventor for a beverage container and a flashing light. The case is among increasing number of…

Image via Marvel Studios Whilst there’s no denying that Marvel movies have had a dip in quality as of late, some fans are just about done with the franchise with one even making the bold claim that the MCU would have been better off ending with Spider-Man: No Way Home. That’s quite a spicy take! The user in the Marvel Studios subreddit went on to say that Far From Home wasn’t a necessary addition and that No Way Home was perfect as an epilogue. Whilst we can see where the user is coming from, there’s still…

Patrick Daxenbichler/Getty ImagesMicrosoft's new ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat is still in a limited preview, but those with access have already prompted it to reveal its codename, the rules governing its responses - and apparently witnessed it denying that it was vulnerable to method that caused it to reveal its codename in the first place. Also: What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here's everything you need to knowUsers with access to Bing Chat have over the past week demonstrated that it is vulnerable to so-called…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is a lack of awareness among UK and US populations of "nuclear winter," the potential for catastrophic long-term environmental consequences from any exchange of nuclear warheads. This is according to the researcher behind new polling conducted last month and released today by the University…

Abortion pill manufacturer GenBioPro on Wednesday sued to overturn West Virginia's ban on abortion because it restricts access to a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in West Virginia's southern district, argues that FDA regulations on medications such as the abortion pill preempt state law under the U.S. Constitution.related investing newsAccess to the pill, called mifepristone, has become a major legal battleground in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Top-down approaches to tackling substance abuse in drug-ravaged parts of Colombia, Afghanistan and Myanmar are harming livelihoods, health and ecology, a new study warns. Cocaine, opiates and meth are widespread among the poor and young in some communities because of the role drugs play in their…

Was Tyrannosaurus rex as smart as a baboon? Scientists don’t like to compare intelligence between species (everyone has their own talents, after all), but a controversial new study suggests some dino brains were as densely packed with neurons as those of modern primates. If so, that would mean they were very smart—more than researchers previously thought—and could have achieved feats only humans and other very intelligent animals have, such as using tools. The…

Disney+ home page, with tabs for each major brand. Credit: Television & New Media (2022). DOI: 10.1177/15274764221128923 The cultural and economic behemoth that is the Walt Disney Company has steamrolled its way into the collective consciousness and shows no signs of slowing down. Their strategy involves a savvy and skilled combination of careful marketing, brand acquisitions, digital positioning in the form of the Disney+…

The expected optimal temperature profile obtained with (blue line) and without (red line) negative emissions. With negative emissions the policymaker allows the temperature to climb a bit more than without, because she or he knows that greater CO₂ concentration reductions can be achieved by direct removal in the near future. Author In the fight against climate change, the lever every policymaker has been focusing on has been the…