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By Byron Kaye, Paresh Dave SYDNEY (Reuters) – Google’s threatened shutdown of its search engine in Australia over a proposed content licensing law would ripple across industries, saddling partners like Apple with a sudden revenue gap and retailers as varied as affordable Kmart to upmarket David Jones with a supply of potentially useless gadgets. FILE PHOTO: Smartphone with google app icon is seen in front of the displayed Australian flag in this illustration taken, Jan. 22, 2021…. Source link

By Byron Kaye, Paresh Dave SYDNEY (Reuters) – Google’s threatened shutdown of its search engine in Australia over a proposed content licensing law would ripple across industries, saddling partners like Apple with a sudden revenue gap and retailers as varied as affordable Kmart to upmarket David Jones with a supply of potentially useless gadgets. FILE PHOTO: Smartphone with google app icon is seen in front of the displayed Australian flag in this illustration taken, Jan. 22, 2021…. Source link

Bloomberg Hyundai, Kia Say Not in Car Development Talks With Apple (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said that they aren’t in discussions with Apple Inc. on cooperating to develop a self-driving electric vehicle, following reports and speculation that they were working with the tech giant.The South Korean carmakers have been talking with multiple companies about autonomous electric car development, but no decision has been made, they said in regulatory… Source link

GlobeNewswire Global Telepresence Robots Market By Component, By Type, By Application, By Company, By Region, Forecast & Opportunities, 2026 Global Telepresence Robots Market By Component (Head v/s Body), By Type (Stationary v/s Mobile), By Application (Education, Healthcare, Enterprise, Homecare, Others), By Company, By Region, Forecast & Opportunities, 2026New York, Feb. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Global Telepresence Robots Market By… Source link

TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher We’ve got a full month of 2021 behind us now, and a few trends are coming clearer. The coronavirus crisis may still be with us, but as vaccination programs expand, the end is in sight. With President Trump out of the picture, and the Democrats holding both Houses of Congress and the White House, politics is looking more predictable. And both of those developments bode well for an economic recovery this year. Looking back, at the… Source link

In a letter posted to LinkedIn dated January 5, David W. Baker, a Google director of engineering who worked on trust and safety, wrote that he was leaving the company as of January 19 after more than 16 years. Gebru’s departure, Baker wrote, “extinguished my desire to continue as a Googler.” Similarly, Vinesh Kannan, a software engineer, posted on Twitter Wednesday that he left Google this month “because of Google’s mistreatment” of Gebru and April Curley, a Black ex-Google diversity… Source link

Two Google engineers have resigned from the tech giant, citing the departure late last year of prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru. The resignations are the latest salvos in an ongoing fight between the company and workers who are furious about its lack of diversity. In a letter posted to LinkedIn dated January 5, David W. Baker, a Google director of engineering who worked on trust and safety, wrote that he was leaving the company as of January 19… Source link

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. Australia has introduced laws that would force internet giant Google and social media heavyweight Facebook Inc to negotiate payments to domestic media outlets whose content links drive traffic to their platforms. However, the Big Tech firms have called the laws… Source link

“Effective competition in the ad tech industry is important for Australian consumers. Ifadvertisers pay too much for digital advertising, the costs will be passed on to consumersin the form of higher prices for goods and services,” the report states. “If publishers receive too little revenue for their advertising inventory, consumers will face a reduction in the quality and variety of online content.” The ACCC said it had not yet reached a view on whether concerns about… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher’s abrupt departure last week has “seeded doubts” in the company. Pichai told Google employees in a Wednesday memo obtained by Axios that the tech company is beginning a review of the circumstances leading up to Black computer scientist Timnit Gebru’s exit and how Google could have “led a more respectful process.” Gebru, a top scholar in the field of AI… Source link