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11 months ago+22 22 0Apple Announces Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom to Make Components in the USA
Apple today announced a multibillion-dollar deal with American technology company Broadcom to make several key components for its devices in the United States.
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11 months ago+25 25 0This Volcano-Covered Planet May Be Habitable to Alien Life
At first glance, LP 791-18 d seems like a lively place. If new findings from NASA researchers hold up, the Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a star 90 light-years away from us is teeming with active volcanoes all over its surface. Interesting, sure—but ...
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11 months ago+24 24 0Composing Music with ChatGPT - An Inspiration or a Threat to the Musicians
The landscape of music composition, once predominantly traditional and manual, is currently undergoing a transformative process through the intervention of state-of-the-art technology. Along with the torchbearer in this evolutionary transition — the ...
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11 months ago+31 31 0''I Get Worried'': Warren Buffett Compares AI To The Creation Of Atom Bomb
Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy. While AI chatbots are being employed for a variety of tasks, there are also fears of them being misused. There are also s ...
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11 months ago+25 25 0AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up
This week, the Republican National Committee used artificial intelligence to create a 30-second ad imagining what President Joe Biden's second term might look like. It depicts a string of fictional crises, from a Chinese invasion of Taiwan to th ...
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12 months ago+29 29 0 x 1Bill Gates says A.I. chatbots will teach kids to read within 18 months: You'll be 'stunned by how it helps'
Soon, artificial intelligence could help teach your kids and improve their grades. That’s according to billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who says AI chatbots are on track to help children learn to read and hone their writing skills in 18 m ...
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12 months ago+18 18 0Netflix reveals new timeline for its password-sharing crackdown
Netflix said a crackdown on password-sharing among U.S. subscribers is coming by the end of June, modestly delaying a plan that has caused consternation among many subscribers of the streaming service. In its quarterly earnings report this week, Netf ...
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12 months ago+17 17 0Little Girl, Parents Shot After Basketball Rolls Into Neighbor’s Yard: Report
A 6-year-old girl and her parents were injured by gunfire on Tuesday night after a basketball rolled down a residential street in North Carolina and into a man’s yard, enraging him, neighbors told WSOC-TV.
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1 year ago+32 32 0 x 1GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic
On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients and for use in analyzing medical records while lo ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Blockbuster ‘laughed us out of the room,’ recalls Netflix cofounder on trying to sell company now worth over $150 billion for $50 million
Marc Randolph, who cofounded Netflix with Reed Hastings in 1997, sees a lesson in a key moment from the company's history.
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1 year ago+22 22 0It's time for a halftime huddle: 'Ted Lasso' Season 3 should refocus on relationships
There's a big difference between "it's not good" and "it's not for me." Most often, this difference comes up with genres: musicals, horror, romance, whatever. You could make the best slasher movie in existence, and ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Need to charge your phone? Think twice — 'juice jackers' might come for you
The U.S. government is warning of the dangers of using public, free cellphone charging stations, such as airports, hotels and shopping centers. The FCC put out a statement, and local branches of the FBI are also expressing concern. That's becaus ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0‘Snowfall’ Star Damson Idris Lands Coveted Role Opposite Brad Pitt In Apple’s F1 Racing Film
Following months of meetings, auditions and even several days of driving tests, Apple Studios, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer look to have found their race car driver to steer their anticipated racing film set in the world of F1. Sources tell ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Three ways AI chatbots are a security disaster
AI language models are the shiniest, most exciting thing in tech right now. But they’re poised to create a major new problem: they are ridiculously easy to misuse and to deploy as powerful phishing or scamming tools. No programming skills are needed. ...
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1 year ago+9 9 0California to require half of all heavy trucks sales to be electric by 2035
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it’s granting California the legal authority to require that half of all heavy-duty truck sales in the state be fully electric by 2035, an ambitious standard that will go beyond federal requirements. ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Recreational cannabis goes on sale in some Swiss pharmacies
Decades after pioneering prescription heroin and safe injection sites, Switzerland is now experimenting with decriminalising recreational cannabis. It’s being done in a very Swiss way, according to addiction experts: taking things slow and steady to ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0A Meatball from a long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals. The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0BOE excluded from the initial OLED panel order for iPhone 15 lineup
As part of Apple's plan to reduce its reliance on Samsung, the company wants to diversify its OLED supply chain by taking the Chinese OLED maker BOE into the mix. Up until now, Apple has relied solely on Samsung and LG, with the former taking th ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Germany strikes deal with EU on combustion engine phaseout
Germany and the European Commission on Saturday said a deal had been reached over an agreed phase-out of combustion engine vehicles. To the irritation of some in Brussels, consensus on the issue was being held up by opposition from within Germany ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0German Man with HIV Becomes Third Patient to be Cleared of Virus with Stem-Cell Therapy
A 53-year-old man in Germany, referred to as the "Düsseldorf patient," has become at least the third person to be declared cured of HIV. The man underwent a bone marrow transplant in 2013, replacing his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant ...