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Large technology firms have faced increased scrutiny of their practices in the US and beyond.

Business & FinanceTechnology 11 December 2023, 5:07 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Chinese chip designers including Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) are aggressively pitching their AI chips as alternatives to Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), hoping U.S. export restrictions will prompt clients to switch, said four people familiar with such discussions. California-based Nvidia commands as much as 90%…

NASA beamed ultra-high definition video of a cat named Taters back to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away, the space agency said Monday.  The 15-second cat video was sent to Earth as an experiment for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications. The space agency hopes to one day stream very high-bandwidth video and other data…

Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a US labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction and embarrassment.” SpaceX in the lawsuit filed in Brownsville, Texas federal court claims the structure of the National Labor Relations Board, which issued…

In a nondescript Culver City warehouse, members of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold wear protective booties over their shoes to avoid scuffing the floor-to-ceiling green screen. The surroundings couldn’t be more different from their usual fire-and-brimstone aesthetics. That will soon change, of course, with the green screen swapped out for a series of fantastical concert…

When we reported our findings to TikTok, a spokesperson said: “We constantly and relentlessly pursue those that seek to influence our community through deceptive behaviours, and we have removed a covert influence operation originating from Russia, as part of an investigation initiated by TikTok and to which the BBC has contributed.”