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Twitter Inc owner Elon Musk on Sunday signaled he would do more to take the social media company in a new direction with a rebranding that will replace its well-known blue bird logo with an X after acknowledging advertisers have been slow to return.

Thanks to the Digital Markets Act signed into force by the European Union, encrypted messaging between Google Messages,WhatsApp, Apple Messages, and Facebook Messages might ecome possible

We’re rolling out custom instructions to give you more control over how ChatGPT responds. Set your preferences, and ChatGPT will keep them in mind for all future conversations.

Greg Rutkowski is among the artists calling for more protection from artificial intelligence tools.

Aside from a concrete garage and elevator shafts, Ascent Milwaukee is a 25 story-tall building constructed almost entirely from wood, making it the tallest m...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI on claims it has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk, the strongest regulatory threat to the Microsoft-backed startup yet.

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x.ai will "work closely with Tesla".

Is this just a way for Elon to scam all the other Tesla (stock) owners out of the huge amount of money Tesla has invested into AI hardware? Tesla has invested a huge amount of money into it, designing their own very different custom silicon for their data center's even, something that only the likes of Google has done. It's hard to believe that "working closely with another company" and sharing the benefit of that investment is in Tesla's best interests.

Sort of like how it's hard to believe that Telsa engineers "volunteered" to work at Twitter for weeks/months and that wasn't just Elon miss-appropriating Tesla resources...

Or a glass house costing millions of dollars in materials is a good faith use of funds...

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TV network's attorneys 'on a DMCA rampage' ... are you sure you're ready, kids?

Popular animated gifs hosting service gfycat.com is shutting down on September 1, 2023 and all hosted content will no longer be accessible at that point.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the effort that became the Atom feed format. It all began on June 16, 2003,

I created this magazine when the wave of redditors started happening - me being one of them. Unfortunately I don't have the time to moderate it, so I'm open to adding at least three moderators for now.

From what I can see there were no spam or unrelated posts, which means we have quality people here.

So, please PM me if you intend to moderate this community/magazine and tell me a bit about you (past moderation experience is a plus).

As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?

Meet the people who have already lost their jobs to AI.

I don't need apps, or advanced health tracking — just the basics. When smartwatches miss 3 key criteria for Ben.

Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?

Anyone like Technology Connections? The new video is really interesting. One hour of talking about a fridge https://youtu.be/8PTjPzw9VhY

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The company has been affected by the downturn in ad markets.

Developed at Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies, a new robot can autonomously choose from a variety of motions to move through a complex environment.

"Landlords are increasingly turning to AI programs to screen prospective tenants. The prevalence of incorrect, outdated, or misleading information in such reports is increasing costs and barriers to housing, especially among people of color."

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/artificial-intelligence-corporate-landlords-tenants-screening-crime-racism/

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