Month: April 2023

Ari Squires, CEO of Profit Attraction Academy, Went from A Jail Cell to Managing Multi-Million Dollar Brands

It’s not where you start, but where you finish that matters, and nobody knows that better than Ari Squires, CEO of Profit Attraction Academy. The energetic business mogul, brand manager, author, and international speaker, has worked with many multi-million-dollar companies and influencers. However, her path to success began in a jail cell. As a teen growing up in

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Filing: SMIC-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing Electronics Shaoxing plans to raise $1.4B in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market as Beijing battles US curbs (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filing: SMIC-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing Electronics Shaoxing plans to raise $1.4B in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market as Beijing battles US curbs  —  A chip foundry backed by China’s top semiconductor firm is set to raise $1.4 billion in Asia’s biggest initial public offering so far this year …

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Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022 (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge: Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022  —  The best thing about Slack’s new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you.  It’s like Google Docs but inside of Slack.

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On TikTok, guides to buying “dupes” of pricey luxury items are gaining a following and sparking a debate over knock-offs; #dupes has 2.1B views and #Reps 1.9B (Annachiara Biondi/Financial Times)

Annachiara Biondi / Financial Times: On TikTok, guides to buying “dupes” of pricey luxury items are gaining a following and sparking a debate over knock-offs; #dupes has 2.1B views and #Reps 1.9B  —  On TikTok, guides to buying ‘dupes’ of pricey luxury items are gaining a following  —  In 2012, a classic Chanel flap bag

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Thierry Breton says EU Digital Services Act content rules will apply to Apple, Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and others from August 2023 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Thierry Breton says EU Digital Services Act content rules will apply to Apple, Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and others from August 2023  —  Alibaba’s (9988.HK) AliExpress, Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Marketplace, Apple’s App Store and 16 other tech companies will be subject …

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South Korea indicts Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin and nine others on multiple charges and freezes ~$184.7M in assets from them so far (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: South Korea indicts Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin and nine others on multiple charges and freezes ~$184.7M in assets from them so far  —  South Korea indicted Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin along with nine others on multiple charges including violations of capital markets law.

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Make Your ESP32 Talk Like It’s the 80s Again

80s-era electronic speech certainly has a certain retro appeal to it, but it can sometimes be a useful data output method since it can be implemented on very little hardware. [luc] demonstrates this with a talking thermometer project that requires no display and no special hardware to communicate temperatures to a user. Back in the

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AI will have a significant impact on the economy, but as with the internet, this impact will be concentrated in information-focused industries and occupations (Timothy B Lee/Understanding AI)

Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI: AI will have a significant impact on the economy, but as with the internet, this impact will be concentrated in information-focused industries and occupations  —  Software didn’t eat the world and AI won’t either.  —  In 2011, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published an essay …

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First look: wasmCloud and Cosmonic

As you likely know by now, WebAssembly, or wasm, is an efficient, cross-platform, cross-language way to run code almost anywhere, including in a browser and on a server—even in a database. Cosmonic is a commercial platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for wasm modules. It builds on the open-source wasmCloud. This technology preview starts with a quick overview of

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Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the path from GPT-4 to AGI, safety measures, the regulation of LLMs, development of GPT-5, the response to ChatGPT, and more (Matt O’brien/Associated Press)

Matt O’brien / Associated Press: Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the path from GPT-4 to AGI, safety measures, the regulation of LLMs, development of GPT-5, the response to ChatGPT, and more  —  OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn’t a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit

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