2024)

Written by Ilex Community Manager | 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00

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

Duolingo is the latest company to cite AI as a reason for job cuts. The company confirmed it cut around 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023, as it turns to AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to streamline content. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3TUFiEl

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

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