Hashtag Trending September 1 – Truth Social not been accredited by Google Play; Military AI startups are rising; LG’s new bendable OLED TV | IT World Canada News

Truth Social fails to get approval from the Google Play retailer, Military AI startups are gaining curiosity and development, and LG pronounces its first bendable OLED TV.

That’s all of the tech news that’s trending proper now, welcome to Hashtag Trending. It’s Thursday, September 1, and I’m your host, Tom Li.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social has not been accredited for distribution on the Google Play Store because of inadequate content material moderation. This delay is a significant setback for the app, which was added to the Apple App Store in February. Without the Google Play retailer, the app misses a whole lot of potential customers. Google mentioned it has expressed issues to Truth Social about violations of its Play Store insurance policies prohibiting content material like bodily threats and incitement to violence. In an announcement, Google doubled down that having efficient programs for moderating user-generated content material is a situation of its App retailer’s phrases of service.

Source: Reuters

The struggle in Ukraine has added urgency to the drive to push extra AI instruments onto the battlefield. Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the CEO of knowledge analytics firm Palantir, urged to leaders that Europe have to modernize their arsenals with Silicon Valley’s assist. Militaries are responding to this name. In June, NATO introduced a $1 billion innovation fund that may spend money on early-stage startups and enterprise capitals that assist develop applied sciences like synthetic intelligence, big-data processing, and automation. Since the Russia-Ukraine struggle started, the U.Okay. has launched a brand new AI technique particularly for defence, and Germany has spent just below half a billion on analysis and AI, MIT Technology Review revealed.

Source: MIT Technology Review

LG has introduced its first bendable OLED TV which works both fully flat or as a curved show. The LG OLED Flex also called mannequin LX3, is a 42-inch OLED TV that bends right into a curved TV due to LG’s newest show expertise. According to The Verge, curved shows are higher for a extra immersive gaming expertise, whereas flat screens are perfect for watching TV broadcasts or streaming providers. LG is advertising and marketing its 42-inch bendable show in the direction of avid gamers, due to a bunch of options that console or PC avid gamers will discover interesting. Additionally, the TV homeowners can change the TV into its curved mode utilizing a devoted button on the TV distant. LG has but to announce pricing or a launch date for the brand new TV.

Source: The Verge

Thousands of undeclared non-public swimming swimming pools in France have been found following an experiment utilizing AI. According to a BBC article, over 20,000 hidden swimming pools had been found. The software program, developed by Google and French consulting agency Capgemini, noticed the swimming pools on aerial pictures of 9 French areas throughout a trial final October. Pools can result in increased property taxes as a result of they increase property worth, and are required to be declared beneath French regulation. Tax authorities mentioned the software program might even be used to seek out undeclared residence extensions, patios or gazebos, which additionally play an element in property taxes.

Source: BBC

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