(Reuters) -Soccer's global governing body FIFA is close to an agreement with Apple to give the tech company worldwide television rights for a new, month-long club tournament, the New York Times reported on Monday. Read full story

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms is making available the software that powers its Quest headsets to other devices makers, it said on Monday, in its bid to be more central to the development of next generation virtual and mixed reality technologies. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -Gay dating app Grindr is facing a mass data protection lawsuit in London from hundreds of users who allegedly had their private information, including HIV status, shared with third parties without consent, a law firm said on Monday. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A key feature of TikTok Lite may be suspended in the European Union on Thursday, the European Commission said, if TikTok does not provide a satisfactory response to regulators' concerns about the new app's impact on users' mental health. Read full story

CAIRO (Reuters) - United Arab Emirates-based artificial intelligence firm G42 said it had agreed a collaboration with U.S. group Qualcomm under which its subsidiary Core42 would feature Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 products in its Condor AI platform, a G42 statement said. Read full story

(Reuters) - Traders who bet against the "Magnificent 7" group of big U.S. tech stocks booked their biggest-ever weekly profit of more than $10 billion last week, with the biggest gains coming from their short position in shares of Nvidia and Tesla, Ortex data showed. Read full story

(Reuters) - Profit growth momentum of the so-called Big Six technology stocks could "collapse" over the next few quarters, UBS Global Research strategists said on Monday, downgrading its rating on the mega-cap companies. Read full story

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -ASML, the largest supplier of equipment to computer chip makers, is considering a major expansion in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, an important step toward resolving doubts about where it will grow its operations in the future. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A military court in Moscow on Monday sentenced Meta Platforms spokesperson Andy Stone to six years in prison for "publicly defending terrorism", a verdict handed down in absentia, RIA news agency reported. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Broadcom's critics on Monday rejected the U.S. chipmaker's changes to its cloud licensing practices, saying they do not address their complaints about alleged price hikes, unfair software licensing terms and tying products together. Read full story

Malaysia's leader on April 22 announced plans to build a massive semiconductor design park, aiming to boost the South-East Asian nation's role in the global chip industry. Read full story

Japan???s antitrust watchdog said on April 22 that US search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. Read full story

When Pinduoduo, the Chinese discount shopping app, debuted nearly a decade ago, tech giants Alibaba and JD.com dominated China???s ecommerce business. Read full story

The workers, all based in the Philippines and projected onto flat-screen monitors via Zoom, are summoned when an often unwitting customer approaches. Despite a 12-hour time difference with the New York lunch crowd, they offer warm greetings, explain the menu and beckon guests inside. Read full story

Four months after allegedly showing one of his bosses a naked picture of a coworker, a Harris County Precinct 3 constable deputy has been suspended and is the subject of a felony criminal investigation. Read full story

A married woman entered into a relationship with a man she met online, and agreed to open a bank account on his behalf. Read full story

Higher power bills are making everyone more aware of their electricity use, and utilities are passing on price signals in the form of cheaper rates when demand is low and pricier rates when demand is high. Together, those factors are creating a new class of consumer: Call them the home energy nerds. Read full story

A top student in China was rejected by a university after his history of cat abuse was exposed, reported Chinese media outlets. Read full story

Issei Yamamoto became one of Japan???s best-known developers of artificial intelligence when his algorithm defeated the top-ranked player of Japanese chess. Now, he???s pursuing an even more challenging task of human emulation: achieving a fully self-driving automotive system. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - Automakers from General Motors to Volvo Cars, alongside utilities and charging app operators are calculating their financial cut as EVs that allow their owners to sell power back to grids become a more realistic prospect. Read full story

San Francisco (Reuters) - Tesla slashed the price of its Full Self-Driving driver assistant software to $8,000 from $12,000 in the United States, its website showed on Saturday. Read full story

"Sorry, can you say that again? It's a bit loud there." For conversations where you might hear a phrase like this, Apple has a new feature that can help. Read full story

Artificial intelligence tools can produce an essay on the migratory patterns of waterfowl or President Barack Obama's K-12 education agenda in seconds ??? but the work might be riddled with factual errors. Read full story

Despite being the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach has always played a supporting role in Nintendo???s games. She???s normally the one rescued or a playable character in an ensemble adventure, but that changes this year. Read full story

If you want to win game of the year, your best bet is to create an open-world game. The genre dominates when it comes to end-of-the-year considerations. The efforts are often the most eye-grabbing and they capture the imagination with their promise of adventure and fun. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB) strongly denies allegations of not being transparent in its internal operations and rejects the insinuation of any impropriety in the governance and procurement practices. Read full story

(Reuters) - Tesla cut the U.S. prices of its Model Y, Model X and Model S vehicles by $2,000 each on Friday, days after the first-quarter deliveries of the world's most valuable automaker missed market expectations. Read full story

The way we live, work, play, and communicate today is so tech dependent that it demands we always be on our devices as we go through our daily routines. Read full story

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Tens of billions of dollars have poured into AI companies looking to use the technology to revolutionize everything from medicine to education over the past year. But concerns about the technology ??? both its power and potential to disrupt work and life ??? have also grown. Read full story

Harvard researchers have developed an ???intelligent?????liquid whose properties vary according to the pressure exerted on it. This discovery could revolutionise??many technological sectors, starting with robotics. Read full story

In Italy, certain restaurants are encouraging their customers to set aside their smartphones while they eat to truly enjoy the moment. But to convince diners to give up their phones, they usually have to promise rewards... Read full story

The expansion of access to higher education is prompting employers and recruiters to pay closer attention to the additional skills of job applicants. If human qualities ?????the famous soft skills ?????have become a decisive criterion for hiring, the mastery of artificial intelligence could prove just as important. Read full story

(Reuters) - Amazon.com's advertising executive Colleen Aubrey, a member of the elite internal team advising the CEO, is moving to a new undisclosed position at the company. Read full story

DUBAI (Reuters) - Stablecoin Tether's recent growth is being driven by its use as an alternative to the U.S. dollar in emerging markets, rather than by demand for cryptocurrency trading, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino told Reuters on Friday. Read full story

(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday said it will roll back requirements that U.S. suppliers and staffing firms pay their employees at least $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits, a move that could allow the tech giant to avoid bargaining with unions. Read full story

(Reuters) -Shares of Donald Trump's media and technology company rose over 3% on Friday after it asked the Nasdaq exchange to help prevent alleged market manipulation in its shares by so-called "naked" short sellers. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple's offer to open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals is set to be approved by EU antitrust regulators as soon as next month after it tweaked some of the terms, people familiar with the matter said. Read full story

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government's Facebook pages. Read full story

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Friday adjourned a tax evasion trial against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to May 17 after the matter was stalled because the exchange has not been formally served with the charges. Read full story