The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal With the emergence of generative AI (Gen AI), hopes are rising for greater adoption of robotics in public spaces. Robots rely on code that tells them how to execute functions or react to specific scenarios, limiting them to specific actions they were trained to perform. Gen AI could permit robots to […]

The Wall Street Journal Datacenter construction is growing faster in Atlanta than in just about any other major U.S. city. Measured by power capacity, it was up 76% in the metro area during the first half of 2024 compared with the same period a year prior, with developers lured by the city’s cheap electricity, state […]

The Wall Street Journal A report by the child safety advocacy nonprofits Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action describes how in a 24-hour period, researchers found that about 200 apps rated for children on Apple’s App Store included “inappropriate” content, about a quarter of the total reviewed. One recommendation the report makes is that Apple should […]

The Wall Street Journal A new tool developed by Mondelez is speeding up the creation of snack recipes and optimizing them to fit certain taste profiles, translating to less lab work and faster time to production. Food scientists at the snack maker use the AI tool to create optimal recipes by specifying desired characteristics, including […]

The Wall Street Journal Internet-service providers are required to display labels for home or mobile broadband products that list standardized price and speed data. However, customers often do not know how to find these labels or understand terms like “latency.” The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it is launching a consumer-awareness campaign for these […]

The Wall Street Journal San Francisco and Philadelphia recently passed laws to restrict the use of algorithmic rent-pricing systems at residential properties. Rather than banning rent-setting software outright, the laws target any system’s use of nonpublic data, such as that sourced from individual landlords, rather than market data available to the general public. From “Cities […]

The Wall Street Journal T-Mobile’s network was among the systems hacked by a Chinese cyber-espionage operation that gained entry into multiple U.S. and international telecommunications companies, say insiders. Hackers linked to a Chinese intelligence agency were able to breach T-Mobile as part of months-long campaign to spy on the cellphone communications of high-value intelligence targets. […]

The Wall Street Journal Australia will soon introduce legislation that will ban social media use by those under 16. Officials said the legislation will make clear that the onus is on social media companies to keep underage children off their platforms, and that the companies could face penalties if they fail to do so. Said […]

Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to the tech company’s data centers, in a first-of-its-kind deal in the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal Save A Lot’s 4,000-sq.-ft. automated micro-fulfillment center in Brooklyn, NY, is intended to lower grocery prices and order completion times. It features robotic arms that grab items from plastic bins on shelves and transfer them to robots on the ground, which move them to workers who pack them before they are […]