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Has a tech corner of Taiwan generated the baby boom some in Silicon Valley are yearning for?

A covey of U.S. billionaire tech elites have urged Americans to have more babies, warning that otherwise, humanity faces population collapse and economic disaster. Low birth rates are the “the biggest danger civilization faces by far,” Tesla founder Elon Musk, father of 11 children, tweeted in 2022.

The world’s semiconductor supplier, Taiwan, has long grappled with one of the world’s…

The electric vehicle industry is cutting staff faster than smoke.

More than 30,000 workers have lost their positions at electric-vehicle makers and related industries worldwide over the past year, according to a Rest of World analysis of layoff announcements. The dismissals, which make up anything between 1% and 40% of the total workforce of the companies, span from Detroit giant General Motors to Indian upstart Ola, signaling trouble across the entire electric mobility ecosystem that…

Artificial intelligence is one of the most researched fields in technology today. As more companies launch large language models and more users embrace generative AI, researchers are studying their potential impact on health care, education, manufacturing, and more. 

Alongside, there are growing concerns about the safety and ethical implications of AI, and its effects on society at large. Regulators worldwide are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of innovation.

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In late August, an Indigenous group in the Brazilian state of Ceará, in the country’s northeast, brought a formal complaint before federal authorities, asking them to halt the development of a TikTok data center they said was being built on their land.

Sitting under a tall cashew tree, Cacique Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé, a leader of the community, recalled how, until a few months ago, he did not know what a data center was. Now, he’s determined to stave off the giant Chinese social media…