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Google owner Alphabet will buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion — in a deal set to boost the tech giant’s in-house cloud computing amid burgeoning artificial intelligence growth. If closed, the cash transaction, announced Tuesday, would become Google’s most expensive acquisition in the company’s 25-year history. Wiz rejected a reported $23 billion buyout proposal
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How Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough could solve the world’s biggest problems – CBS News Watch CBS News Microsoft has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, claiming it created an entirely new state of matter to make it possible. Experts say the technology could revolutionize problem-solving, from drug discovery to climate solutions, processing calculations in minutes that
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It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two
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Iconic Volkswagen microbus gets an electric revival – CBS News Watch CBS News Today marks 75 years since Volkswagen first began manufacturing its beetle-based “bus.” For those of a certain generation, the microbus is one of the most recognizable and beloved vehicles to ever roll down the road. Carter Evans reports that some are charged
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Robots build full-scale 3D-printed homes in 24 hours – CBS News Watch CBS News California company “Azure Printed Homes” wants its 3D printing technology to help speed up the wildfire recovery efforts in the Los Angeles area. Its robots can print full-scale homes in 24 hours. Danya Bacchus reports. View CBS News In Be the
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Breaking down the latest space launch mishaps – CBS News Watch CBS News You may have noticed all the troubling launch and landing mishaps affecting private space missions lately, from two explosions of a SpaceX Starship to lunar landers that can’t stay upright. Bill Harwood gives his perspective. View CBS News In Be the first
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Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype, the pioneering Internet telecommunications and video call platform it bought nearly 14 years ago for $8.5 billion. “We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub,” already used by hundreds of millions of people at work, school and
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The Hague — A global campaign has led to at least 25 arrests over child sexual abuse content generated by artificial intelligence and distributed online, Europol said Friday. “Operation Cumberland has been one of the first cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material, making it exceptionally challenging for investigators due to the lack of national legislation
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How Meta’s community notes program might work How Meta’s new community notes program might work as fact-checking ends for Facebook, Instagram 03:54 Meta is apologizing for a mistake that resulted in graphic and violent imagery appearing in the Reels feeds of some Instagram users. “We have fixed an error that caused some users to see
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Apple shareholders on Tuesday rejected a proposal to end the iPhone maker’s diversity, equity and inclusion program. The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, had called on Apple to follow other major companies in backing off from DEI, which has come under fire from Republicans and from President Donald Trump. “DEI
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