Category Archives: Technology

Could Apple’s AI initiatives drive a product cycle?

Although initially bearish, Apple (AAPL) shares rose as investors digested the tech giant’s artificial intelligence announcements. New Street Research tech infrastructure analyst Antoine Chkaiban joins Market Domination to discuss the issue Chkaiban notes that Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday had its “dull” moments, but “it was exciting because we thought it spoke very… Read More »

Well done, Ed Stone—The Man Who Showed Us the Solar System

Ed Stone, former JPL director and Voyager mission project scientist, in front of a model of one of the Voyager spacecraft. The gold plaque can be seen over his left shoulder. Credit – NASA/JPL Caltech STeve Synnott never forgot the day he let Ed Stone name the moon. The year was 1980, and Synnott was… Read More »

What can the 70-year-old artificial intelligence movie tell us about humans’ relationship with artificial intelligence?

In 2024, artificial intelligence is making headlines every day. We may be aware of the science, but how do we imagine AI and our relationship with it, both now and in the future? Fortunately, the movie can provide us with some insights. The best-known artificial intelligence in movies is probably HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s… Read More »

Oracle, Apple, Paramount and L&G

Skydance Media, the company behind Top Gun: Maverick, has formed a consortium of investors to purchase the vehicle, which owns Redstone’s controlling stake in Paramount. (Illustrated Press, Pictorial Press Ltd.) Oracle (ORCL) Shares of Oracle rose more than 8% in premarket trading after the software company announced cloud deals with Google (GOOG) and OpenAi. “In… Read More »

Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist for the Voyager mission, dies at 88

Ed Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50 years and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed the first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88 years old. A physicist on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA missions… Read More »

Water frost detected in Martian volcanoes, an ‘unexpected’ first

The equatorial region of Mars is home to the solar system’s tallest volcanoes; These volcanoes, which in some cases extend up to three heights of Mount Everest, are also likely hiding an unexpected frost event, according to a new study. The largest – Olympus Mons – is 16 miles (26 kilometers) high and 374 miles… Read More »