Month: April 2022

How to mute words on Twitter

If you go onto social media and keep reading about the latest cryptocurrency advice, or you are constantly getting spoilered about your favorite TV show, then it may be time to start muting certain keywords. This prevents posts with those keywords from appearing on your timeline. Here is how you do it on Twitter. Your

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3D Printing A Guitar Neck

A lot of first-time guitar builders focus on making the body and skip the neck, which has lots of tricky dimensions to get right to if you want a nicely playable instrument. However, [Jón Schone] of Proper Printing wanted to start with the hard part on his guitar building journey, and set about 3D printing

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Growth Of AI As A Service (AIaaS) Market

Artificial intelligence as a service (AIaaS) refers to the use of pre-trained machine learning algorithms, robotic process automation (RPA) to natural language processing (NLP) in the cloud to automate business processes. In this respect, it is similar to software as a service (SaaS). However, AIaaS allows business users to access AI models without requiring advanced

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E3 is Officially Cancelled

In news that is both surprising and unsurprising at the same time, the upcoming E3 gaming convention has been cancelled for 2022. Previously the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) that runs the show had changed the event from in-person to online-only, but now the online portion is officially off the table too. That means there will

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A look at the growing skepticism within Silicon Valley of Russian money, once welcomed with open arms, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (Washington Post)

Washington Post: A look at the growing skepticism within Silicon Valley of Russian money, once welcomed with open arms, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Five years ago, an up-and-coming venture capitalist with an unusual past was raising money to invest in hot Silicon Valley start-ups.

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Apple is opposing bills targeting gay and transgender people in Iowa, Texas, Florida, and other states via lobbying, filing court briefs, and recruiting allies (Emily Birnbaum/Politico)

Emily Birnbaum / Politico: Apple is opposing bills targeting gay and transgender people in Iowa, Texas, Florida, and other states via lobbying, filing court briefs, and recruiting allies  —  Apple is quietly mobilizing its vast resources to lobby against anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferating across the country …

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House Oversight Committee launches an investigation into Amazon’s labor practices during severe weather events, after a tornado killed six workers in Illinois (Karen Weise/New York Times)

Karen Weise / New York Times: House Oversight Committee launches an investigation into Amazon’s labor practices during severe weather events, after a tornado killed six workers in Illinois  —  A tornado that hit a delivery station in Illinois last year will be a focus of the inquiry.  —  The House Committee on Oversight …

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Filing: Andy Jassy earned $212.7M in his first year as Amazon CEO, mostly via stock; AWS CEO Adam Selipsky earned $81.4M and consumer CEO Dave Clark earned $56M (Alex Weprin/Hollywood Reporter)

Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: Filing: Andy Jassy earned $212.7M in his first year as Amazon CEO, mostly via stock; AWS CEO Adam Selipsky earned $81.4M and consumer CEO Dave Clark earned $56M  —  Jeff Bezos, who remains executive chairman of Amazon, earned $1.6 million, almost all in security costs paid by the company.

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The SPAC behind Trump’s Truth Social has lost 31% of its value since February; Apptopia says downloads are down 95% from its peak and the app has 513K DAUs (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: The SPAC behind Trump’s Truth Social has lost 31% of its value since February; Apptopia says downloads are down 95% from its peak and the app has 513K DAUs  —  Shares of the blank-check firm bringing Donald Trump’s media venture public are sinking with daily downloads for the former president’s …

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Samsung partners with NFT auction service Nifty Gateway to launch NFTs on select 2022 TVs and gives more information on its NFT platform (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Samsung partners with NFT auction service Nifty Gateway to launch NFTs on select 2022 TVs and gives more information on its NFT platform  —  It’s partnering with Nifty Gateway for its NFT platform  —  Samsung is making good on its promise from CES 2022 to bring NFTs to its TVs

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An Indonesian tax official says the country will charge VAT on crypto transactions and tax capital gains on crypto investments at 0.1% starting May 1 (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)

Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: An Indonesian tax official says the country will charge VAT on crypto transactions and tax capital gains on crypto investments at 0.1% starting May 1  —  Indonesia plans to charge value-added tax (VAT) on crypto asset transactions and an income tax on capital gains from such investments at 0.1% each …

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Sea Snail Venom Could Be the Secret to Less Addictive Painkillers

(Photo: Kerry Matz National Institute of General Medical Services/Wikimedia Commons)A deadly marine snail called Conus geographus, or “geography cone snail,” appears to carry the secret to less addictive painkillers.  The geography cone snail’s venom contains chemicals called conotoxins, which are responsible for paralyzing its prey. Though this venom can be harmful under normal circumstances (the

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