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Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots after ditching its electric vehicle project, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.Engineers have been looking into a robot that can follow users around their homes, as well as a tabletop device that uses robotics to adjust a display screen, Bloomberg reported, citin...

Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.The new AI graphics processors are named Blackwell and are expected to ship later this year. The announcement comes as companies and software makers still scramble to get their hands on the current generat...

Xiaomi is putting a premium price on its first electric car because it already has about 20 million users in that segment, Group President Weibing Lu told CNBC.The company has generally been known for more affordably priced products. That's raised doubts about whether it can sell an electric car – promoted as a riva...

Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services attend the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 10, 2019.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018, Google said in a court filing ...

Meta's Reality Labs unit brought in more than $1 billion in fourth-quarter sales but recorded an operating loss of $4.65 billion.The company's heavy spending on the metaverse comes as Apple jumps into the market with its Vision Pro headset, which is slated to debut Friday.The VR and AR market saw a 40% sales drop in...

Thierry Breton, France's European Union commissioner for internal market and consumer protection, industry, research and energy.JOHN THYSApple faces strong action if changes to its App Store do not meet incoming European Union regulations, the bloc's industry chief said on Friday.In a move designed to comply with th...

Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi on Thursday detailed plans to enter China's oversaturated electric vehicle market and compete with automaker giants Tesla and Porsche with a car model it says it spent more than 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) to develop.The company's car model, known as Xiaomi SU7, "is in ...