TikTok Spotted by Canadian Privacy Service
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TikTok Spotted by Canadian Privacy Service

Canadian privacy regulators have launched an investigation into TikTok over concerns about its collection of users' data. The video sharing platform, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, was scrutinized for fear of sharing information with Beijing. Canada [more…]

Can Robots Do Better Than Skilled Waiters?
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Can Robots Do Better Than Skilled Waiters?

Researchers at the Munich Institute for Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), affiliated with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have developed a model that allows a robot to serve tea and coffee more quickly and safely than humans. [more…]

Wireless Internet of Things
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Wireless Internet of Things

According to research by an international team led by KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), new thin-layer materials based on alternative semiconductor materials such as printable organics, nanocarbon allotropes and metal oxides [more…]

Microsoft Facing 10 Players' Lawsuits
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Microsoft Facing 10 Players' Lawsuits

The Xbox console maker's purchase of its competitor for $69 billion (£56 billion) would "create a monopoly in the video game industry," according to the lawsuit filed in US federal court. Complaint, action by US regulators from an administrative judge [more…]