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Roblox to overhaul ad policies, introduce revenue sharing in 2027
March 20 (Reuters) - Videogame platform Roblox said on Friday it would take a portion of revenue from in-game brand deals starting next year, as part of a broader advertising-policy overhaul designed to draw in more brand dollars and increase creator earnings.
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AI's demand for data could cause tight storage chip supplies, Solidigm executive says
SAN JOSE, California, March 20 (Reuters) - The same booming AI demand that has caused the chairman of South Korea's SK Group to predict shortages of high-bandwidth memory chips could also cause tight supplies for storage drives, an executive from the South Korean firm's U.S.-based AI subsidiary Solidigm told Reuters this week.
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Pinterest CEO calls for ban on social media for youth under 16
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - Pinterest CEO Bill Ready called on world leaders to ban social media for youth under 16 in a LinkedIn post on Friday.
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Ecolab to buy CoolIT for $4.75 billion to tap into AI data center boom
March 20 (Reuters) - Ecolab said on Friday it would acquire CoolIT Systems from KKR for about $4.75 billion in cash, as the water solutions firm seeks to capitalize on surging demand for liquid cooling in artificial intelligence-driven data centers.
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Trump releases AI policy to pre-empt state rules
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - The White House released an artificial intelligence policy on Friday that aims to pre-empt state rules, ensure protections for children and shield communities from prohibitive energy costs.
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BTS concert in South Korea to herald stream of live events, Netflix says
SEOUL, March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. streaming platform Netflix anticipates more opportunities for live events in South Korea, a company official said on Friday, as it prepares for its biggest livestream this year, a highly anticipated BTS comeback concert in Seoul.
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Technology
Exclusive-Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 (Reuters) - In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple
and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone - overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos - was scrapped in barely over a year, one of Amazon's highest-profile flops. -
Video games
‘Life Is Strange: Reunion’ is almost here – but can you play it on your console?
"Life Is Strange" fans have been waiting for a sequel for quite some time now — but the wait is finally over.
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US, Germany, Canada disrupt botnets that infected millions of devices
NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany and Canada have carried out an operation to take down infrastructure used by four major botnets that infected more than 3 million devices worldwide.
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AI
Sorry, Mom. You’re chatting with an AI agent, not your son.
Silicon Valley's young coders are getting creative with this new technology. They also worry they're not spending enough time with it.
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Smartphones
Ripple, slam, explode: How to send an iMessage with text effects
Apple's Messages app can do far more than just blue and green speech bubbles plus a few photos and videos – it now also lets you add a whole range of colourful effects to messages.
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AI
Meta to reduce role of outside content moderators in favour of AI
Meta Platforms Inc will soon cut back on its use of third-party vendors to help with content moderation, relying instead on advanced artificial intelligence systems to detect and remove posts that violate the company's terms of service.
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Technology
OpenAI plans desktop 'superapp' to streamline user experience
March 19 (Reuters) - OpenAI on Thursday confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that it plans to fold its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a single desktop "superapp" to simplify user experience.
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Technology
Nvidia to sell 1 million chips to Amazon by end of 2027 in cloud deal
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (Reuters) - Nvidia will sell 1 million of its graphics processing unit chips, along with a host of the AI giant's other offerings, to Amazon.com's cloud computing unit by 2027, a Nvidia executive told Reuters on Thursday.
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Technology
Exclusive-German semiconductor group Elmos exploring a sale, sources say
NEW YORK / LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Germany's Elmos Semiconductor is exploring a sale as its founders consider exiting the business, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Technology
Jeff Bezos aims to raise $100 billion to buy, revamp manufacturing firms with AI, WSJ reports
March 19 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos is in early discussions to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would acquire manufacturing companies and seek to use AI to drive and speed up automation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Technology
Poland plans to ban mobile phone use by under-16s in schools
WARSAW, March 18 (Reuters) - Poland plans to ban the use of mobile phones by under-16s in schools from September 1, the education minister said on Wednesday, joining a growing list of countries moving to limit children's screen time and social media use.
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Technology
Winklevosses' Gemini Space Station sued by shareholders over strategy, departures
NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - Gemini Space Station and its billionaire founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were sued by shareholders who said they were defrauded about the cryptocurrency exchange's business prospects, and suffered losses as a strategy shift, job cuts and executive departures caused the stock price to fall.
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Technology
Broadcom hit with EU antitrust complaint and request for interim measure
BRUSSELS, March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. chipmaker Broadcom risks an EU antitrust probe after lobbying group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe on Thursday urged EU regulators to temporarily stop it from ending its VMware Cloud Service Provider programme in Europe.
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Technology
Google expands utility deals to curb data‑center power use during peak demand
NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on Thursday, in its latest effort to secure power for fast‑growing data centers amid slow additions of new supply.
