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Should the Apple Store be forced to sell lemons?

Apple has spent extraordinary amounts of money building strategic placed Apple Stores around the world. Who should benefit most from Apple’s work: Microsoft, Google or maybe Sony?University Village Apple Store, SeattleGiven Apple’s success in building retail stores that customers love and which have contributed significantly to its own efforts to initially launch new Macs and iPods, then to debut the new iPhone and iPad, and now show off the upcoming Vision Pro, is it now time for the world’s governments to seize control of these outlets and force Apple to work just as hard selling the products of its competitors? Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

CES 2024: C Space Entertainment and Content Exhibition Expands to Biggest Footprint Yet

Techies and media execs will again ring in the new year at CES 2024 in Las Vegas ā€” and the trade showā€™s producers say the C Space entertainment, advertising and content track will be bigger than ever. CES 2024, produced by the Consumer Technology Association, is scheduled for Jan. 9-12, 2024. Itā€™s the largest business-focused [ā€¦]

Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children

Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built.

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Six Mysterious Objects That Are Emitting Signals

After embarking on its third mission, China’s top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth’s orbit ā€” and we have no idea what they are. On December 14, the country launched its reusable spaceplane from the Gobi Desert, as local news agency Xinhua reported at the time. According to the brief [ā€¦]

Scary AI Can Look at Photos and Figure Out Exactly Where They Were Taken

A trio of Stanford graduate students have made a powerful AI that can guess the location of any photo with remarkable accuracy. For all its potentially very useful applications, though, it sounds like a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Known as Predicting Image Geolocations (PIGEON), the AI uses a custom data set of Google Street [ā€¦]