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Apple agrees to allow NFC payments from third party companies in EU

01/26/202401/25/2024 Stephanie Beck

The iPhone maker has offered to make near field communication transactions available to rivals. Apple and the European Commission have reached the next step in their long-running disagreement over the use of the iPhone maker’s NFC payments services. The American company has now offered to allow rivals to use the tech, possibly ending this dispute. The European Commission has announced that Apple intends to open its NFC payments technology, used for contactless or tap-and-go transactions, to third-party mobile wallet providers. There have been rumors about this move circulating for about…

Artificial intelligence designs battery requiring 70 percent less lithium

01/17/202401/16/2024 Stephanie Beck

This has the potential to make electric vehicles much more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Artificial intelligence was recently used to design a surprising new type of battery that would require substantially less lithium – a rare metal – to achieve the same energy storage results. Lithium mining is terrible for the environment and drives up the cost of vehicle batteries. By reducing the need for lithium – as could be the case if the battery design created by artificial intelligence proves feasible – electric vehicles and devices have the potential…

QR code accidentally shared online leads to $60,000 restaurant bill

01/12/202401/11/2024 Stephanie Beck

A woman in China mistakenly posted the quick response barcode online, letting others place orders. A woman living in China was understandably shocked, when she received a bill for about US$60,300 (430,000 Chinese yuan), after having accidentally shared the ordering QR code online, giving others the ability to place food orders on her tab. The woman was posting pictures on WeChat and mistakenly included the table’s ordering barcode. Though the woman’s intention was only to share pictures of the food she had ordered at the hotspot restaurant when she and…

LG artificial intelligence robot unveiled

01/03/202401/03/2024 Stephanie Beck

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The “AI Agent” was designed to provide home and pet monitoring to its owners. LG has unveiled its new artificial intelligence robot called the “AI Agent”, which can greet its owner at the door, provide home and pet monitoring, and even conduct an analysis of an individual’s mood. The product was first announced ahead of CES 2024, calling it an “all-around home manager and companion.” This artificial intelligence robot is mainly designed for home and pet monitoring but has other features as well. According to LG, it will be expressive…

Google to stop geofence warrants by letting users store location data on devices

12/20/202312/19/2023 Stephanie Beck

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Law enforcement have been accessing location data stored in massive amounts by tech giants. Google will soon be providing users with the opportunity to store their location data on their devices instead of on its own servers, putting to the end the geofence warrants trend it played a large part in creating. Use of these warrants has recently taken off. This will effectively cease a surveillance practice that has long existed and that has permitted law enforcement such as police to be able to access the company’s massive stores of…