This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry.
The stories cover Tesla, NASA, Apple, McAfee, Duolingo, Digital Bridge and Amazon.
Here are our highlights:
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Tesla recalls more than 1.6 million cars in China over steering software issues
The recall includes its models S, X, 3 and Y, and 7,538 imported vehicles. The problems will be fixed by remote updates to software.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3vrYsqY
First US spacecraft to land on moon since Apollo lifts off
NASA has paid a start-up just $108m (£85m) for five scientific instruments to be carried to the moon - a fraction of the cost of launching its own mission - with a payload that also carries the remains of the creator of Star Trek.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4aQ34as
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Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones
Apple has begun making payments in a long-running class action lawsuit over claims it deliberately slowed down certain iPhones in the US.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3TVil3Q
McAfee Unveils Project Mockingbird: AI-Powered Deepfake Audio Detection
McAfee Corp. yesterday announced its AI-powered Deepfake Audio Detection technology, known as Project Mockingbird, at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/48pigKl
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Duolingo cuts 10% of its contractor workforce as the company embraces AI
Peregrine Mission-1 spacecraft has 'no chance' of landing on moon
Astrobotic says there is enough fuel left in the lander to allow it to operate "as a spacecraft" while engineers decide what its new mission in orbit will be.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/47tCrFA
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DigitalBridge and Silver lake pump $6.4 billion into Vantage Data Centers
IHyperscaler and co-location data centre provider, Vantage Data Centers (Vantage), has announced a $6.4 billion equity investment led by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake.Vantage was launched by Silver Lake, a global tech investor, in 2010. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/48kyGn7
Amazon slashes jobs at Twitch, MGM and Prime Video
More than 500 Twitch employees - a third of the streamer's workforce - will be laid off, according to a note from chief executive Dan Clancy.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3NZbAuh
