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Tech News Today: Google search quality slips, Apple axes Watch Series 9 blood oxygen sensor, and more | Technology News

The whirlwind of innovation in tech never slows down. Here are 4 of the biggest happenings in tech this week:

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    New research shows Google may be slipping in results quality

    Google’s slipping search quality has researchers worried. A new study from European universities found Google is returning more low-quality affiliate marketing content in product searches. As sites optimize for SEO over value, users suffer from irrelevant results aimed at earning commissions. Google tweaks its algorithm but struggles to keep up with SEO gamers.

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    Which is the best country to get the Galaxy S24 Ultra from?

    Samsung’s new Galaxy

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Biden-Harris Administration Designates 31 Tech Hubs Across America

WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden-Harris administration, through the US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), today announced the designation of 31 Tech Hubs in regions across the country. This is the first phase of the new Tech Hubs program, which is an economic development initiative designed to drive regional innovation and job creation by strengthening a region’s capacity to manufacture, commercialize, and deploy technology that will advance American competitiveness. The program invests directly in burgeoning, high-potential US regions and aims to transform them into globally competitive innovation centers.

Tech Hubs was authorized by the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act,

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Far-left group claims attack on Tesla factory in Germany | Technology News

Production halted at electric vehicle plant in Brandenburg after suspected arson attack causes power outage.

Tesla has halted production at its German factory after power lines supplying the plant were set on fire in an act of “sabotage” claimed by a far-left group.

Emergency services were called early on Tuesday after reports of a burning electricity pylon southeast of Berlin close to the Tesla plant.

The blaze was extinguished, but damage to the lines knocked out power to the electric car factory, located in the state of Brandenburg, as well as surrounding villages.

Police said they have launched an investigation

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Five focus areas for India in tech next year

At the forefront of all tech trends is artificial intelligence (AI), and its subset, generative AI, or gen AI, was where all the focus was in 2023. Come 2024, most conversations are likely to be based on realizing real-world, practical use cases of gen AI. Speaking about its adoption, John Roese, global chief technology officer (CTO) at Dell, said: “While generative AI has sparked incredibly creative ideas of how it will transform business and the world, there are very few real-world, scaled generative AI activities. 2024 will see the first wave of generative AI enterprise projects reach maturity levels that

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China, Russia and Iran ‘attempting to illegally acquire’ US technology, top DHS official says

The head of a top unit at the Department of Homeland Security says in a new interview that “sensitive” materials are showing up overseas — in Iranian weapons — in the latest warning about how US adversaries are believed to be trying to steal American technology .

“The Iranian drones that are being recovered on the battlefield in Ukraine, that are being recovered on the battlefield throughout the Middle East, they do have sensitive US communications systems and they have sensitive microelectronics,” Jim Mancuso, the assistant director of the Global Trade Division at Homeland Security Investigations, told ABC News.

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Tech News of the week: Bard is now Gemini, OpenAI’s CEO seeks trillion dollars in funding and more | Technology News

Tech News of the week in India: Google rebrands its generative AI-powered chatbot Bard, which is now called Gemini and the company has also released a new app for Android users and has integrated Gemini within the Google app for iPhone users, and Sam Altman is currently seeking a $7 trillion funding for a “wildly ambitious tech initiative.”

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    Bard is now Gemini AI

    Gemini is the new name of Google’s generative AI-powered chatbot, which is now available via the web, Android, and also for iOS users. There is a free Gemini tier and users can also get access to

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Year in Review: The biggest tech stories of 2023 | News

Tech platforms dominate the headlines today and not all for the good reasons. From TikTok Shop being banned in Indonesia to Google’s ongoing lawsuit with the US Department of Justice for its adtech practices, it was an eventful 2023.

Scroll below for Campaign’s round-up of biggest tech stories that dominated news headlines in 2023.

1. The rise and rise of generative AI

China became the first country to publish rules and regulate the generative AI industry in August.

Since then companies like Silicon Intelligence and Xiaoice as well as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and JD have introduced AI-generated livestream services

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Spring Budget puts UK on fast-track to becoming science and technology superpower

Alongside tax cuts for workers, harnessing technology to benefit the public sector was at the heart of the Chancellor’s Spring Budget that will deliver the long-term change our country needs to deliver a brighter future for Britain, and improve economic security and opportunity for everyone.

An £800 million reform package will free-up time for staff at the frontline of public services including cutting results waiting times in the NHS and slashing admin tasks for the police.

In a further boost for the UK’s world-class life sciences sector, charities including Cancer Research UK will receive £45 million to help launch the

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