Month: February 2020
Tim Cook says Apple is reopening factories as China gets ‘coronavirus under control’
Apple CEO Tim Cook said today that factories in China that manufacture the company’s products are reopening as “China is getting the coronavirus under control.” The comments came from a preview of an upcoming interview with Fox Business. Here is a transcript of what Cook said in the snippet shared…
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Amazon trialing AI-based customer support agents
Amazon has revealed that it is currently trialing two AI-based systems to handle shopper inquiries in an effort to improve the customer service of its ecommerce platform. While one of the systems is able to field requests from customers automatically without human intervention, the other is designed to help human…
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AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile will be fined more than $200 million for selling customer locations, per report
The Federal Communications Commission plans to fine four mobile phone carriers a total of $200 million for making consumers’ real-time location data available to third parties, Reuters reported Thursday. The companies will be able to challenge the amount of the fines, expected to be announced Friday, before they become final,…
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AMD has sold more GPUs than Nvidia, according to this analyst report
Team red is on fire. It seems like AMD’s winning streak won’t likely end anytime soon. After leaked figures from Mindfactory revealed that AMD’s Ryzen CPU sales are destroying that of Intel’s, the latest report from Jon Peddie Research is now showing that the Santa Clara company is winning in…
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Improving the logistics of trucking, San Diego’s Flock Freight raises $50 million
“We want to change the way freight moves,” says Oren Zaslansky, the chief executive and founder of Flock Freight. His company, which has been operating in stealth mode for the last two years, has finally emerged with a new solution for freight shipping that purports to bring in more money…
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Citroen introduces a two-seat EV that costs €19.99 a month
The Citroen Ami is a new take on urban mobility. It’s electric, cheap and doesn’t require a license. In short, it’s less of a car and more of an electric scooter with two seats, doors, and a heater. Jokes aside, the Citroen Ami could be a glimpse at the future…
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