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Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases
Apple TV+ became the first streaming service to win the prestigious Oscars Best Picture award last year, for Sundance acquisition CODA, but its overall film slate has been somewhat underwhelming so far. Via Bloomberg, that may be set to change as Apple is significantly expanding its original films division to focus on blockbuster titles that will debut widely in theatres first, before arriving on the streaming service. Apple will purportedly spend $1 billion annually on its movie slate.
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Meta & Google shouldn't be allowed to bully their way out of paying for news
Journalism has been nearly destroyed by Google and Facebook stealing news — and they should not be allowed to use threats to escape regulation demanding that they pay for profiting from it. Canadian lawmakers are debating whether to charge online platforms for news they post, but Meta says it won't pay a dime — and Google is already looking at just blocking news in the country.
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OK, it’s time to freak out about AI
This week New York Times columnist Ezra Klein joined the ranks of those who are seriously freaked out about artificial intelligence. And he did this in a column posted two days before OpenAI announced the release of its latest AI, GPT-4—an event that led to such headlines as “5 Incredible, Frightening Things GPT-4 Can Do.”
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Metal-Detecting Drone Could Autonomously Find Landmines
Metal detecting can be a fun hobby, or it can be a task to be completed in deadly earnest—if the buried treasure you’re searching for includes landmines and explosive remnants of war. This is an enormous, dangerous problem: Something like 12,000 square kilometers worldwide are essentially useless and uninhabitable because of the threat of buried explosives, and thousands and thousands of people are injured or killed every year.
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The Age of AI has begun
In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with the person who had shown me the demo, a brilliant programmer named Charles Simonyi, and we immediately started brainstorming about all the things we could do with such a user-friendly approach to computing.
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A Is for OpenStack Antelope
The latest version of the open-source OpenStack IaaS cloud is here and ready to run.
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A crucial building block of life exists on the asteroid Ryugu
Uracil, a building block of life, has been found on the asteroid Ryugu. Yasuhiro Oba and colleagues discovered the precursor to life in samples collected from the asteroid and returned to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, the team reports March 21 in Nature Communications.
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Elon Musk Says That Immortality Tech Would Be Very Dangerous
During an interview this week, Elon Musk warned that letting people live longer lives by coming up with new technologies may actually be a really bad idea.
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Chat-GPT Pretended To Be Blind and Tricked a Human into Solving a CAPTCHA
“No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 told a human.
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Willem Dafoe Is Down to Return as the Green Goblin in a Third ‘Spider-Man’ Movie: “That’s a Great...
Willem Dafoe is open to reprising his role again as one of the most iconic villains in the Spider-Man franchise. During an interview with Inverse promoting his new thriller Inside, published online Wednesday, the actor said he would return as Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin for a third film “if everything was right, sure.”
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Meta rolls out paid verification option for Facebook and Instagram users in US
Facebook and Instagram users in the United States will soon be able to pay to get a coveted blue check on their account. Meta on Friday began testing a paid verification option for US users of the two social networks, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Instagram. The company plans to gradually roll out the paid option to more US users over the next few weeks.
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The SCO vs. Linux Saga: 20 Years of Open-Source Turmoil
This lawsuit was once seen as a huge threat to Linux. It's mostly over now--seriously, there's still one lawsuit to go--but here's my take on the case's long history.
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Microsoft lays off entire AI ethics team while going all out on ChatGPT
A new report indicates Microsoft will expand AI products, but axe the people who make them ethical.
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Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right
Researchers from the University of Cambridge conducted a study in a tech consultancy firm using two robot wellbeing coaches, where 26 employees participated in weekly robot-led wellbeing sessions for four weeks. Although the robots had identical voices, facial expressions, and scripts for the sessions, the physical appearance of the robot affected how participants interacted with it.
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The FCC wants to get satellite-to-smartphone service rolling
It’s moving towards a “single network future.”
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You'll Soon Be Using Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange
The Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) is a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) working specification that is meant to be a machine-readable security advisory.
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Consumer Privacy Protection Act could lead to fines for deceptive designs in apps and websites
Whether or not Bill C-27 moves companies away from deceptive design in apps and websites depends on how, and if, the Canadian government holds companies accountable for their actions.
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Why Fox News wants you to be afraid of electric bikes
Fox News is no stranger to the tactic of fearmongering as a way to stir up its base.
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Valve likes the idea of an OLED Steam Deck, too, but says it isn't as simple as it sounds
Swapping to a new screen is "a bigger amount of work than people are assuming it would be."
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Strange circular dunes on Mars spotted in these NASA photos
Planetary scientists have captured an image of near-perfectly circular sand dunes on the surface of Mars. While sand dunes across the Red Planet come in a wealth of shapes and sizes, such well-defined circles are unusual.
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How to watch March Madness 2023: Your streaming options compared
It's that time of year again when it's all about college basketball. Here's how you can stream the games.
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First Real-World Look at Apple Mixed-Reality Headset Parts Seemingly Shown in Leaked Images
Images of what appear to be components for Apple's upcoming mixed-reality headset have today been shared online.
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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund got its cash out of Silicon Valley Bank before it was shut down,...
Bloomberg reported that Thiel's VC fund took all its cash out of SVB after encountering problems with transfers during a "capital call."
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The Future Of Work Will Be Five-Hour Days, A Four-Day Workweek And Flexible Staggered Schedules
Two years ago, you would have thought I was a fool for saying that nearly every white-collar professional would be working from home. If I added that people can be just as productive remotely as being in an office setting, I’d be met with mocking derision. You’d laugh at hearing me say new online video technologies would connect remote workers with their co-workers and bosses so seamlessly that they’d use it too much and it’d become tiresome.
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Google To Make Changes To Android In India After Antitrust Setback
Google said on Wednesday it will allow device makers in India to license its individual apps for pre-installation and give an option to users to choose their default search engine, announcing sweeping changes to how its Android system operates.
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How to replace Windows with Linux Mint on your PC
Sick of Windows? Want to try something different? Then it's time to try the best Linux desktop: Linux Mint 21.1.
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Japan's new flagship H3 rocket launch fails, ordered to self-destruct
Japan's new flagship H3 rocket lifts off for the first time but is ordered to self-destruct minutes later after its second-stage engine fails to ignite: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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EU 8K TV ban goes into effect — here’s how Samsung got around it
Turns out there’s a pretty big loophole to the EU’s 8K TV regulations
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CRTC launches review of wholesale network rates, reduces some to boost telecom competition
The regulator says “its current approach is not meeting its objective of encouraging more competition in the Internet services market”.
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Modem vs router: What's the difference?
You'll need both for your internet connection, but they do different jobs.
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