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The Abandoned Side Project That Quietly Turned Into a $700m/year Revenue Business
The 20-year journey of Ben Chestnut, founder of MailChimp
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Artificial intelligence research continues to grow as China overtakes US in AI journal citations
The artificial intelligence boom isn’t slowing yet, with new figures showing a 34.5 percent increase in the publication of AI research from 2019 to 2020. That’s a higher percentage growth than 2018 to 2019 when the volume of publications increased by 19.6 percent.
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Japanese billionaire to fly eight members of the public on SpaceX moon flight
Yusaku Maezawa announced he will choose eight members of the public to join him on a trip around the moon, scheduled to fly on SpaceX's Starship in 2023.
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Google says publishers don’t want collective bargaining
Media execs in the US want to know what Google’s publisher partnerships in other countries might mean for their own future negotiations.
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Mars: Nasa's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
Amazing images as Nasa's Perseverance rover lands on Mars and seeks signs of past microbial life.
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Best laptops For Engineering Students To Buy In 2021
Are you searching to get a laptop for your engineering needs with good specifications? Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer, no matter which engineering discipline you’re pursuing, the best laptops for engineering students are those capable machines that can handle heavy applications.
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Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You
Israeli researchers show that even if you're paranoid enough to remove your computer's microphone, malware can convert your headphones into spy bugs.
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Sony to Discontinue PlayStation Store Movie and TV Purchases and Rentals - IGN
Sony has said it will discontinue movie and TV purchases and rentals on the PlayStation Store as of August.
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Recipeasly: Food website removed after blogger backlash
Copying content without consent could be a breach of copyright, lawyers say.
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Aston Martin: The billionaire building 'a British Ferrari'
Lawrence Stroll, executive chairman of Aston Martin, told the BBC he wants to build a firm with a "luxury profile".
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Linux Mint may start pushing high-priority patches to users
In upcoming releases, Linux Mint developers may insist that users install some patches.
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Warren Buffett has made $100 billion on his investment in Apple
The iPhone maker now makes up 40% of Buffett's $280 billion investment portfolio.
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AI is killing choice and chance – which means changing what it means to be human
The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological innovations – from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated – reshape people as they use these innovations to control their environment. Artificial intelligence is a new and powerful tool, and it, too, is altering humanity.
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How a tiny startup is reinventing the DVR for the cord-cutter era
Once the future of TV, the DVR became a throwback. But Channels figured out how to make it newly relevant in a streaming world.
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How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million
In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.
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SolarWinds security fiasco may have started with simple password blunders
Many things came together to crack SolarWinds, but it may all have started with that classic mistake of leaking a lousy password.
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Warp Drives Are No Longer Science Fiction - Applied Physics
Scientists at Applied Physics are excited to announce they have recently constructed the first model of physical warp drives. Applied Physics is an independent group of scientists, engineers, and inventors that advise companies and governments on science and technology for both commercial and humanitarian applications.
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Hackers release a new jailbreak tool for almost every iPhone
The jailbreak group said it used its "own exploit" for a vulnerability that Apple said was "actively exploited" by hackers.
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Betting on death of petrol cars, Volvo to go all electric by 2030
Volvo's entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of carmakers planning to phase out fossil-fuel engines by the end of this decade.
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From the seas, to more ZZZs: Your new Pixel features
New Pixel features are here, including Smart Compose and more bedtime tools in this latest drop.