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2 days agoCurrent Event belangermira
Artificial intelligence must be regulated, warns the CTO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI: ‘It can be used by bad actors’
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says regulators must govern the use of A.I. in a way that’s "aligned with human values."
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8 days agoCurrent Event belangermira
China's 2022 smartphone sales plunge to lowest level in a decade
China's smartphone sales endured a record fall in 2022, tumbling 13% to their lowest level in a decade as COVID controls and a slowing economy sapped consumer appetite, data from third-party research firms showed.
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10 days agoCurrent Event belangermira
Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft have used AI in their products for years. But OpenAI's ChatGPT is stealing the limelight, forcing them to move faster.
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10 days agoCurrent Event belangermira
Small, convenient mosquito repellent device passes test to protect military personnel
A device developed at the University of Florida for the U.S. military provides protection from mosquitos for an extended period and requires no heat, electricity or skin contact. The controlled-release passive device was designed by Nagarajan Rajagopal, a Ph.D. candidate and Dr. Christopher Batich in UF's Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event belangermira
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party Twitter clients, including Tweetbot by Tapbots and Twitterrific by The Iconfactory.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event belangermira
Italy's education minister wants to ban phones in classroom
Valditara wants to remove welfare benefit from young people who have not completed schooling. Italy's new right-wing government is set to ban phones in class during lessons to prevent students from getting distracted, education minister Giuseppe Valditara told state broadcaster RAI on Thursday.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis belangermira
Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows
Seas dominate global weather patterns and the climate crisis is causing profound and damaging changes
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1 month agoCurrent Event belangermira
Seattle schools sue TikTok, Meta and other platforms over youth 'mental health crisis'
Seattle public schools have sued the tech giants behind TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, accusing them of creating a "mental health crisis among America's Youth." The 91-page lawsuit filed in a US district court states that tech giants exploit the addictive nature of social media, leading to rising anxiety, depression and thoughts of self-harm.
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1 month agoExpression belangermira
There's an Impossible Upside-Down Building in Vancouver
The Vancouver House is a building larger on the top than the bottom that looks like a Jenga tower ready to fall or an upside-down house.
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1 month agoCurrent Event belangermira
Let the (16k) games begin!
I used to stop outside the record shop on the way to school or out in town on the weekends and flick through the cassette tapes that were lined up in those tall carousels they use to sell postcards in the street. The cassettes I was interested in didn’t have music on them, but Spectrum computer games. I looked through every one to see one piece of information before I got too excited.
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1 month agoCurrent Event belangermira
Bahamian regulator says it seized $3.5 billion of FTX crypto assets for 'safekeeping'
The Securities Commission of The Bahamas said it moved $3.5 billion from FTX's Bahamian subsidiary, FTX Digital Markets, into its own digital wallets.
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1 month agoCurrent Event belangermira
Microsoft employee accidentally announces Notepad is getting tabs in Windows 11
Windows Insiders might get to test tabs in Notepad soon.
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1 month agoAnalysis belangermira
Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortality
Cryonics is the practice of freezing your body in the hope of resurrection by future medicine. Some pioneers met a fate grislier than death.
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1 month agoCurrent Event belangermira
Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web
Google announced on Friday that it's adding end-to-end encryption to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside their domain.
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1 month agoCurrent Event belangermira
Capitol riot defendant planned to kill FBI agents who investigated him, unsealed filing alleges
Edward Kelley, 33, of Tennessee is accused of planning to kill the federal agents who worked on his investigation and attack the FBI’s field office in Knoxville.