The European Commission announced tough draft rules on Wednesday to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI), including heavy fines for infringements, a ban on surveillance with few exceptions and strict safeguards for high-risk uses related to AI. AI rules…
Apple Inc announced a line of slim iMac computers, with a focus on connectivity for a work-from-home world, using its own processor chips, continuing its migration away from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ). The company also showed off a number of…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is bringing back to its App Store the social media app Parler, a favorite of U.S. conservatives, after it was pulled in the wake of the April 6 Capitol invasion. January, according to a letter…
International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM ) Corp on Monday returned first-quarter sales growth after a year of declines and beat Wall Street forecasts, buoyed by its bets on the lucrative cloud computing business. Shares of the Dow Jones component ,…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB ) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday the company plans to launch several audio products and features for searching and playing podcasts. Zuckerberg said the world’s largest social network expects to launch audio features in the…
Uber (NYSE: UBER ) will start testing this week in the city of SĂŁo Paulo a function that allows you to record journeys on video. The tool, available through Grip Mobility’s Sentinel partner app, allows drivers to use their cell…
A harsh boreal winter could spark social unrest in Europe, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already caused “horrible” economic consequences and is stoking recession fears, director of the International Monetary Fund. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the current…
The main Spanish stock market index closed the day on Wednesday with a slight negative trend as the push of banks and Inditex (BME: ITX ) failed to withstand the specter of inflation. Producer prices in the United States were announced during the day,…
The yen climbed more than 1% against the dollar on Wednesday, after the Bank of Japan conducted an exchange rate check in apparent preparation for currency intervention, with the Japanese currency gaining more impulse after the producer price data in…
The world’s most vulnerable people are “paying a horrible price for decades of intransigence by major emitters,” UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres said on Wednesday. “The G20 countries are responsible for 80% of emissions. They are also suffering the impact of…
Low volumes and slight gains reflect the market today, after yesterday’s sharp drop, the worst since June 2020 for the three main stock indices, after the U.S. inflation report drastically shook expectations for that prices were cooling. The US CPI…
Any damage to Ukraine’s power and heating systems will severely exacerbate living conditions this winter, especially for some 6.9 million internally displaced people, the United Nations migration agency said on Tuesday. In response to a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the east…
An ammonia gas deal between Russia and Ukraine that the UN is seeking to reach could ultimately stabilize one on grain, a Western diplomat briefed on the matter told Reuters. Under the proposed deal, the ammonia gas, owned by Russian…
The Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates for a third straight time by 75 basis points next week, if not more, after a report showed consumer prices failed to decline as expected in August and price pressures appeared…
France, the European Union’s biggest grain producer, lowered its forecast for this year’s drought-hit maize crop by one million tonnes on Tuesday to the lowest level since 1990. Production of grain corn, excluding the seed crop, is now expected at 11.33 million…
The promised digital euro has started to take shape this week and signs from Frankfurt may offer some relief to nervous commercial banks worried about being left out of the latest development. With the pandemic driving contactless transactions and accelerating…
A group of activists on Thursday called on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB ) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg not to create a children-under-13 version of the photo-sharing app Instagram, citing would expose them to a “great risk”. The letter from…
Facebook users will now be able to ask the company’s independent oversight board to make decisions about content left on the platform, not just content that has been removed, in an expansion of its scope of action. functioning. Facebook Inc…
Instagram is launching a small global test on Wednesday where users can choose whether to hide likes on their own or other people’s posts, a Facebook spokeswoman said. The photo-sharing site, which is owned by Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB ),…
Live streaming service Twitch will ban users who belong to hate groups or pose credible threats of mass violence, in a new approach to moderating the platform, the company said on Wednesday. The Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Inc-owned platform, which…
Dell Technologies Inc announced on Wednesday that it will divest its 81% stake in cloud computing software maker VMware to shareholders, in a move that will help the PC maker reduce its debt. VMware is currently Dell’s best-performing unit and…
Bitcoin hit an all-time high above $63,000 on Tuesday, extending its 2021 gains the day before Coinbase shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The largest debut trade of a cryptocurrency platform in the United States will take…
Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire speech recognition company Nuance Communications , a person familiar with the discussions tells CNBC . The operation could be announced this Monday, the source points out. The plans illustrate Microsoft’s recent efforts to…
Venture capitalist and technology investor Peter Thiel is “pro-crypto” and “pro-Bitcoin” to the max, but he also believes that cryptocurrency may be undermining America. According to Fortune , Thiel has urged the Joe Biden government to consider stricter regulations on…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL ) said on Wednesday it would begin enforcing a new privacy notification rule in the coming weeks that digital advertising firms including Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB ) have warned will affect your sales. Apple said the…
Chinese automaker BYD sold more than the combined number of units delivered by its main rivals Nio and Xpeng in March, still beating analysts’ expectations, reports CNBC . In the new energy vehicle category, which includes hybrid and pure electric…
Toshiba (T: 6502 ) Corp is considering a $20 billion takeover bid from venture capital firm CVC Capital Partners, a person familiar with the matter said, at a time when that the Japanese industrial conglomerate faces pressure from activist shareholders…
About 1.6 million views out of every 1 billion on YouTube are for videos that violate its content policies, roughly in line with the previous year, the proprietary online video streaming service revealed on Tuesday. of Google, a unit of…
Shares of GameStop Corp (NYSE: GME ) fell 13% on Monday after the video game maker said it may sell as many as 3.5 million titles as it seeks to take advantage of rising prices. the stock market after the…
Russia said on Monday it would extend Twitter’s punitive slowdown until May 15, although it acknowledged the social media company had speeded up the removal of banned content. Moscow has traditionally taken a more discreet role in internet surveillance than…
The European Union’s securities watchdog said on Monday it was considering an unusual move to relieve energy companies struggling to find enough cash to cover their positions. The EU and the UK are trying to mitigate the impact of what…
The main Spanish stock index closed its fourth consecutive session in positive on Monday, rising in line with other European markets after the advances of the Ukrainian troops in the province of Kharkov. Risk appetite has also improved and markets…
French skepticism over a new gas pipeline through the Pyrenees highlights conflicting views on Europe’s future energy mix, as the continent urgently grapples with an energy crisis. The MidCat would be a third gas connection between France and Spain that,…
U.S. consumer inflation expectations fell further in August as gasoline prices extended their steep decline from June’s all-time high, a development likely to be welcomed by policymakers. of the Federal Reserve evaluating how big the interest rate hike will be…
The dollar fell to its lowest level in more than two weeks against a basket of currencies on Monday after recent strong gains, as investors grew nervous ahead of U.S. inflation data. United States and because central banks elsewhere seemed…
Wall Street followed European stocks higher on Monday, even as crude rose on supply concerns, after investors were buoyed by Ukrainian advances against Russia in a war that has hurt the world economy. * The dollar hit its lowest in…
Aston Martin has signed Brazilian Felipe Drugovich as one of its reserve Formula One drivers after he won the F2 championship in Italy at the weekend, the team announced on Monday. The 22-year-old will also be the first addition to…
European stocks hit a two-week high on Monday on hopes of some easing in energy prices and banks rose to nearly four-week highs on bets on higher interest rate hikes. big in Europe. * The pan-European STOXX 600 index gained 1.8%, after…
Expected rains to return in late September should stimulate the flowering period in most of Brazil’s coffee fields , providing the moisture needed for soybean farmers to plant a new harvest. The situation is not considered positive for sugarcane , as there are already delays in…
LG Electronics (KS: 066570 ), at the time one of the largest manufacturers of mobile phones, announced today that it stops manufacturing these devices due to the growing competitiveness of the sector and after this branch of business has generated…
The US subsidiary of Volkswagen (DE: VOWG_p ) AG issued a false press release saying it was changing the name of its US operations to “Voltswagen of America”, in a marketing stunt designed to draw attention to its plans for…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL ) said on Wednesday it will build a battery-based renewable energy storage facility in central California, near a solar power plant that already provides electricity to all of its facilities in California. the state. Apple said…
Timi Studios, makers of popular video games Honor of Kings and Call of Duty Mobile owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent (HK: 0700 ), generated revenue of $10 billion last year, they told Reuters. two people with direct knowledge of…
China’s Ministry of Education will strengthen rules to protect children’s sleep by limiting online education and gaming services, the ministry said on Friday. In a statement on the ministry’s website, he said online education companies should not offer live-streamed courses…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global body for the airline industry, said on Wednesday it will launch a digital travel passport with COVID-19 test results and vaccination certificates. on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) platform in mid-April. The…
Four U.S. Republican lawmakers called on Tuesday for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB ), Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR ) and Alphabet’s Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) Inc to hand over any studies they have done on how their services affect children’s mental…
Visa Inc (NYSE: V ) said on Monday it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of the growing industry acceptance of digital currencies. conventional finance. Visa has…
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took steps on Wednesday to reform internet rules, saying companies should be granted immunity from liability only if they follow best practices to remove harmful material from their platforms. In testimony prepared…
Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC ) will vastly expand its advanced chip manufacturing capacity, the company’s new chief executive said, announcing plans to spend up to $20 billion to build two factories in Arizona and open installations to external clients. The…
Iran will not stop enriching uranium to 20% until the United States lifts all sanctions, according to comments by an unnamed senior official broadcast on Iranian state television on Tuesday, after a media outlet US communication said that Washington could…
Spotify (NYSE: SPOT ) Inc said on Tuesday it has bought Betty Labs, the company behind sports-focused social audio app Locker Room, to accelerate its move into live audio. New voice-based platforms, including invitation-only social app Clubhouse, have seen rapid…
Chinese authorities said on Monday that Sweden’s H&M (ST: HMb ) and other foreign companies should not take rash action or get involved in politics, after the companies raised concerns about forced labor in Xinjiang. , prompting furious social media…
Russia poses Britain’s most acute immediate threat in cyberspace, while China’s ambition to be dominant in a host of new technologies will transform the world, the director of Britain’s cybersecurity center said. . “In cyberspace, as in other areas of…
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA ) Inc boss Elon Musk said on Wednesday that a Tesla vehicle can now be purchased using bitcoin and that the option will be available outside the United States later this year. “Now you can buy a…
The Chinese military has banned Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA ) vehicles from its housing complexes, citing security concerns due to cameras installed in the cars, according to two people who saw notices with the order. . The directive issued by the…
Chinese internet platforms must protect the rights of consumers and avoid becoming monopolies, state media China Daily wrote on Thursday. In an editorial, the newspaper highlighted the appearance of two applications – UC Browser and 360 Search – in a…
Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) Inc’s YouTube is launching a short video service on its platform in the United States as it seeks to better compete with rival TikTok in a hugely popular category. The service, Shorts, allows users to record…
The BBC said on Thursday it will move more of its news, television and radio operations to the regions and countries that make up the UK to better reflect its audiences, which will see the relocation of 400 jobs from…
Shares in Vodafone subsidiary Vantage Towers (LON: VOD ) rose in the biggest debut on the German stock market in three years, benefiting from strong investor appetite for stable-return infrastructure assets. The shares rose 3.3% to €24.8 per unit at…
Tokyo Olympics creative chief Hiroshi Sasaki has resigned after making a derogatory comment about a popular Japanese artist, in a new controversy over insensitive comments towards women that has rattled the leaders of the olympic date. With just four months…
Salaries in large Spanish companies increased by 3.9% in July compared to the same month of the previous year, a rise higher than that of June but in line with those of previous months, which stabilizes the increase so far…
The head of the CEOE European Projects Office, Luis SocĂas, has claimed that the part of the ” Next (LON: NXT ) Generation EU” funds that Spain will receive in the form of loans -70,000 million between 2023 and 2026 – are tendered as…
Brazil’s total oilseed processing capacity grew 4.1% in 2020-2022 from the previous two-year period, the fastest rate of increase since 2016, according to a survey. released Tuesday by oilseed crusher group Abiove. Brazil’s total oilseed crushing capacity is now 66.7m…
The Secretary of State for Employment, JoaquĂn PĂ©rez Rey, foresees that the Perte of the social economy and care will have an impact of more than 10,000 jobs and serve to increase the size of companies and promote collaboration and…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has revised upwards its forecast for inflation in the Eurozone for this year to 8.1%, 1.3 points above the previous one, as well as the from 2023, up to 5.5% (two points more) and 2024,…
As experts pointed out , the European Central Bank (ECB) raised benchmark interest rates at its meeting this Thursday, and did so by 75 basis points (0.75%), instead of the 50 bp and 25 bp initially planned. Thus, the interest rate now stands at 1.25%…
Bitcoin has risen steadily in recent days and was also able to break above the $22,000 psychological mark. Weekly profits amount to more than 10%, but not all investors are happy about it. More than 45,000 traders had bet on falling prices,…
The market reflects massive buying, with major stock indices in the green: The Dow Jones up 238 points or 0.74%, the S&P 500 up 35 points or 0.87%, and the Nasdaq up 99 points or 0.82%. And it is that inflation expectations suggest that the index is…
Investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS ) also estimates that tomorrow’s August inflation report will reflect a cooling in the accelerating pace of rising prices, improving market expectations. and strengthens the optimism that has resurfaced on Wall Street. “We think it will…
Lufthansa (ETR: LHAG ) CEO Carsten Spohr said on Monday that flight prices will never return to what they were before the pandemic, predicting stable or rising prices in the future. The sale of tickets below 20 euros was irresponsible and too…
Chicago Stock Exchange soybean futures hit their highest price since June on Monday after the US government cut its estimates for the national crop by more than expected. * Corn futures also hit their highest price in more than two months on lower production…
The European stock markets will be focused in the coming days on possible new increases in interest rates such as the one decided last Thursday by the European Central Bank (ECB) of 75 basis points, as well as on the…
The general secretary of the CCOO, Unai Sordo, has assured that he will promote “general mobilizations, beyond the agreements, if the CEOE employers continue to be stubborn” in not negotiating salary increases. Speaking to Radio Euskadi, the union leader warned…
The gas crisis threatens to multiply central heating bills by ten this winter, which, added to the rise in electricity and the updating of cleaning and maintenance contracts with a soaring CPI, leads to the communities of owners to raise…
The Government and the social agents resume this Monday the negotiation of the next block of the pension reform, which includes, among other issues, the increase in the maximum contribution bases of the system and the period of computation for…
The French Minister for Energy Transition, Agnés Pannier-Runacher, said today that the Government is working on a new cap on the rise in the price of electricity for all consumers in 2023 -in 2022 the maximum It has been 4%-,…
The Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEGA) is developing tools so that applicants for the Common Agricultural Policy (PAC) can estimate the new amounts they are going to receive, according to the president of the organization, MarĂa Jose Hernandez Mendoza. In…
The fishing fleet begins with concerns about diesel prices, inflation and the persistent problem of generational change, a new course full of challenges and legal reforms in Spain and the European Union. The fishermen enter the course with more concern…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced today a rapid recovery of its tourism sector in the post-pandemic, with revenues exceeding 5,000 million euros in the first half of 2022, said the Emirati Vice President, Mohammed bin Rashed. “Revenue from our…
Electricity will rise 4% tomorrow to 286.21 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), according to the results of the auction in the wholesale market or “pool” and the adjustment to be paid after the cap on gas to compensate the plants…
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin began a six-hour journey from her summer home in the Scottish Highlands to Edinburgh on Sunday, as thousands of people lined the route to pay their respects. the late monarch, many in somber silence, some clapping and…
Ukrainian forces continued to push north into the Kharkiv region and advance south and east, the Ukrainian army chief said on Sunday, a day after their rapid advances caused Russia to abandon its main stronghold in the area. President Volodymyr…
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring several others and damaging property and essential infrastructure. The quake struck about 67 kilometers east of Kainantu and 80 kilometers northwest of Lae,…
The Festival and the Tango World Cup returned this year to Buenos Aires with the participation of more than 500 local and foreign couples, after the celebration of a hybrid event in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 19. The…
Famed Spanish novelist Javier MarĂas died on Sunday at the age of 70, his publisher Alfaguara reported. MarĂas, who had been suffering from pneumonia for a month, published 16 novels, including the trilogy “Your face tomorrow”, published between 2002 and…
Munich Re (BIT: MUV2 ) said reinsurance rates are set to rise across the sector due to inflation, rising interest rates and shrinking capital to support the subscription activity. In a statement released on Sunday, the German group said reinsurance capacity, or…
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen dashed Ferrari’s (NYSE: RACE ) hopes of winning at home and won the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday, in a test that ended behind the car of safety, putting him potentially one race away from winning his second…
TikTok plans to allow European researchers and policymakers to see how its teams moderate content, how its recommendation system works and how it handles data, in a bid to address privacy and privacy concerns. the safety of its young users.…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB ) said on Thursday it will start testing ads on its Instagram Reels feature in India, Brazil, Germany and Australia as the social media giant aims to make money from its short-form video feature. The company is looking to…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL ) said on Monday it will establish a new North Carolina campus that will house up to 3,000 employees, expand operations in several other U.S. states and increase spending targets with local suppliers. The tech giant said it…