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This year, LG Display came to CES 2024 with something to prove. It had multiple sizes of transparent OLEDs (the show's theme appears to be transparent displays) and a gaming monitor capable of 480Hz refresh rates – double what we’re used to seeing. Perhaps the most interesting things at its showroom were LG Display’s most advanced OLED panels yet, featuring its META technology 2.0. While it sounds like promotional fluff (and there’s some of that here), the company is trying to address arguably OLED’s biggest…

 CES 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas this week. The multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association is set to feature swaths of the latest advances and gadgets across personal tech, transportation, health care, sustainability and more — with burgeoning uses of artificial intelligence almost everywhere you look.The Associated Press will be keeping a running report of everything we find interesting from the floor of CES, from the most interesting developments in vehicle tech, to wearables designed to…

In the era of ubiquitous AI, the question of ethical products transcends mere buzzwords. As intelligent algorithms infiltrate every facet of our lives, from shopping recommendations to medical diagnoses, the responsibility to build ethically sound creations rests heavily on developers, policymakers, and users alike. But what exactly does "ethical" mean in this context, and why is it so critical, especially in light of the EU's recent AI Act? Defining Ethical AI Ethical AI embodies a set of principles ensuring fairness,…

 A new crop of artificial intelligence startups has shaken up Silicon Valley — and the wider business world — throughout this year, but there's one thing that hasn't changed: Big Tech still wields power. In the wake of Microsoft Corp.'s $10 billion investment in OpenAI in January, other tech giants raced to partner with leading AI startups through funding and cloud computing deals. Salesforce Inc. led a round in Hugging Face at a $4.5 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. invested billions in OpenAI rival…

The last few years have been, to put it mildly, rough. And 2023 continued to bring sad tidings. Amid the humanitarian crisis that is the Palestine-Israeli conflict, plus increased fears around the credibility and reliability of AI and Elon Musk’s ongoing meltdown, tech’s biggest players also suffered their fair share of losses. This year, we saw the demise of the E3 gaming convention, the deterioration of popular online forums and the decline of cryptocurrencies, Silicon Valley banks and financial institutions. Not to…

The institutional venture capital-backed startup ecosystem in India birthed its first public listing in the deep technology space in 2023 with aerial robotics firm Ideaforge, marking the steady increase in investor interest in high-tech innovation-focused companies.Deeptech is a term for businesses using advanced science and technology to find solutions for complicated problems across over a dozen sectors and spread across sub sectors such as space technology, electric vehicles, semiconductors, and cleantech.Elevate Your…

The Open Source community is facing burnout as organizations expect them to build software without adequate funding or support. The perception that Open Source and Free Software are charity projects is a major problem. The movement was intended to be the opposite of commercial software, but it now involves people with lives and families to support. The lack of understanding of how Open Source works and the unrealistic expectations from organizations are contributing to the burnout within the community.…

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Another policy tug-of-war could be emerging around Big Tech’s content recommender systems in the European Union where the Commission is facing a call from a number of parliamentarians to rein in profiling-based content feeds — aka “personalization” engines that process user data in order to determine what content to show them. Mainstream platforms’ tracking and profiling of users to power “personalized” content feeds have long raised concerns about potential harms for individuals and democratic societies, with…

Apple Vision Pro (left) and ChatGPT (right) injected new energy into tech in 2023. Jason Hiner/ZDNETGovernment scrutiny of big tech and a series of iterative upgrades of iconic products such as the iPhone have largely dominated the last decade in tech. Not since the rise of 4G unleashed a wave real-time apps such as Uber and Airbnb have new innovations been the main story in tech. But 2023 was a different kind of year, dominated by the stories of two big breakthroughs.  1. ChatGPT and Generative AI While ChatGPT…