New Year Honours 2024: Tracking tech pioneer is appointed OBE

AI is increasingly being used by fitness apps and gym equipment as an alternative to human trainers.

Microsoft, Google integrate AI into products Microsoft, Google integrating more AI into products 03:20 Microsoft briefly dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company, as its foray into generative AI continues to push up its stock price. The software giant’s stock on Thursday jumped as much as 2%, putting the firm’s market valuations at $2.903…

Apple is pulling two of its most popular watch models from shelves this week. By Christmas Day, if a trade ruling stands, those watches will be illegal to import into the U.S. Online orders for the Series 9 and Ultra 2 models will end Thursday, and the watches will be cleared out of the retail…

Apple said Monday its Vision Pro device will be available in the US from Feb. 2, months after it was launched to capture an augmented-reality (AR) headset market dominated by Facebook-parent Meta Platforms. Vision Pro is Apple’s most expensive bet since the launch of the iPhone more than a decade ago. The AR headset starts at $3,499 and costs…

Story highlights Latest craze in Moscow is war game in which players race to find nuclear codes Russian officials are playing on fears, staging a mass nuclear drill CNN  —  “Attention! Attention!” blares the Russian voice from a loudspeaker. “The nuclear bombs will be launched in one hour.” Inside a room styled as a Soviet-era…

Perplexity, with a fraction of Google’s users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years.