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A Cat Lover's Guide to Understanding JSON Databases
Learn about JSON databases and learn the benefits of human-readable, lightweight, and flexible data storage with examples from a pet cat's viewpoint.
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New iPhone browsers on the way without WebKit; Apple prepping Safari for competition
We may soon see entirely new iPhone browsers available, as both Google and Mozilla anticipate the end of Apple’s insistence that all iOS browsers use the same WebKit engine as Safari. This will enable new versions of Chrome and Firefox to offer greater feature differentiation, and for the first time allow them to aim for faster performance than Safari …
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10 Years of Dell XPS13 developer laptops
For a decade, Dell has been making top-of-the-line Ubuntu Linux-powered developer laptops. Here's the story behind the machines.
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‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI
Motherboard spoke to multiple voice actors and advocacy organizations, some of which said contracts including language around synthetic voices are now very prevalent.
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Under-screen Face ID patent describes what could be a next-generation Dynamic Island
An Apple patent granted today appears to describe a new approach to under-screen Face ID, which could also allow the company to embed additional sensors into an iPhone display. The patent seemingly describes an evolution of the Dynamic Island approach, but applied in a more flexible way …
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Conservatives Are Obsessed With Getting ChatGPT to Say the N-Word
Elon Musk tweeted that it's "concerning" that a computer won't use a slur to stop a nuclear apocalypse in an imaginary scenario.
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AI ‘Seinfeld’ show suspended by Twitch for transphobic, homophobic stand-up
The continuous episode has been streaming on Twitch since December but is now suspended for 14 days.
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Microsoft Throws a Coming-Out Party for A.I.
Amid the tech industry’s worst slump in decades, industry leaders are predicting an era built on new chatbots and other types of artificial intelligence.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduces Chat-GPT rival Bard; here's what it can do
ChatGPT was introduced in the month of November last year. Since then, OpenAI has revealed the extraordinary capabilities of ChatGPT and its impact on daily lives. Google has been working on AI for the past six years and it has finally revealed Bard. In a blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained who is Bard and some of its basic functionality. Bard is an experimental conversational AI service. Powered by the company's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). What separates Bard from ChatGPT is that it will be able to derive information from the web.
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Fitbit recalls 1.7 million smartwatches due to burn risk
So far, the company has gotten 115 reports in the U.S. and 59 reports internationally of the lithium-ion battery in the Fitbit Ionic Smartwatch overheating.
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Tinder’s incognito mode hides your profile from people you don’t like
You’ll need a Tinder subscription to use it.
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Microsoft reveals Bing's Azure OpenAI future
When Microsoft announced it would be spending $10 billion on the next stage of its OpenAI partnership, | Technical details were lacking, but Microsoft sees OpenAI search running on Azure as transforming not only search, but technology's future.
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Google just took the wraps off its long-awaited ChatGPT rival: Meet Bard
Learn about Bard, Google's new AI chatbot that will compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT for dominance in the buzzy new field that could change everything.
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‘We’re going through a big revolution’: How AI is de-ageing stars on screen
Harrison Ford, whom many of us know as Indiana Jones, had discovered the fountain of youth — at least on film and with the help of AI. The Guardian explains.
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Apple to hold in-person 'AI summit' event for employees at Steve Jobs Theater
It has been almost three years since Apple changed how it holds special events because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, all events have been pre-recorded, with only the last two having guests there. But it seems that the company is now ready to go back to its traditional way of holding events, at least for its employees. The company will hold its annual in-house “AI summit” at the Steve Jobs Theater this month.
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Twitter reportedly had only 180,000 subscribers in the US last month
Elon Musk may have to think of a lot more ways to make Twitter Blue appealing to potential subscribers if he wants the subscription service to be a major source of revenue. According to The Information, only 180,000 people in the US have been paying for a Twitter subscription by mid-January, and that's apparently around 0.2 percent of the website's monthly active users.
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Is cloud-native the new development normal?
In 2022, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation Research
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These retailers share customer data with Facebook's owner. Customers may not have been told
When a shopper shares their email address at the cash register — to receive an electronic receipt, rather than a paper one — do they really know where their details are being sent? A CBC News review of Facebook user data suggests a variety of well-known retailers in Canada have been sharing customer information with the social media platform's parent company to gain marketing research in return. And it's not clear what steps have been taken to warn shoppers.
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Tech giants post disappointing results, facing gloomy outlook
Apple, Amazon and Alphabet all posted disappointing quarterly results this week, while Facebook parent Meta bucked the gloomy trend in technology with better-than-expected revenue. Apple reported its first revenue drop in nearly four years after COVID-19 restrictions on its factories in China curtailed iPhone sales during the crucial Christmas holiday season.
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Rocky Linux offers code security patches and info in real-time.
Rocky Linux delivers all the security information and patches you'd ever need, whether it's maintaining your own instances or building your own take.