The Eastern Herald’s Technology Desk covers technology companies, consumer electronics, digital products, emerging technologies and major developments shaping the global technology industry.
Google Wallet home keys are rolling out in Google Home Public Preview, enabling NFC door unlocking and hands-free access with compatible Aliro hardware.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, the world's largest open-weight AI model at 2.8 trillion parameters, at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The model outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sold 2 million copies on launch day, ranked first on Twitch, and peaked at 99,451 concurrent Steam players, becoming the highest-rated AC game since the 2013 original.
Pokémon GO marked ten years since its July 2016 launch with a thousand-player Mewtwo raid in Times Square and a GO Fest 2026 Global drawing 717,000 participants worldwide. The game that rewrote
Meta pulled its Instagram Muse Image AI feature three days after launch amid backlash over non-consensual imagery concerns. The Creative Artists Agency raised alarms after account owners received no notification when their
Reed Jobs, son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has opened the first close of Yosemite's second fund targeting $350 million, betting that AI-accelerated drug discovery and a philanthropic investment model can help
Dozens of Waymo vehicles stalled and were towed in San Francisco's Fourth of July gridlock, including one that drove over a live firework. Four days later, NHTSA gave the robotaxi industry until
Parents have surpassed teens as ChatGPT's fastest-growing US demographic, with users 35 and older hitting 31 percent of the global base in Q2. OpenAI is hiring a family-products manager to catch up,
The European Commission issued preliminary findings that Instagram and Facebook breach the Digital Services Act through addictive features including infinite scrolling and video autoplay. Meta disagrees and faces a potential fine of
Meta removed Muse AI from Instagram days after launch after talent agencies objected to the tool's ability to generate AI images of real people without their consent. The company said the feature
Fidji Simo, who joined OpenAI just over a year ago to lead its commercial expansion, stepped down citing a relapse of a neuroimmune condition. Greg Brockman will take over product and business
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