Month: April 2023

Sources detail Google’s project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi (Nico Grant/New York Times)

Nico Grant / New York Times: Sources detail Google’s project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi  —  The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans

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What is Google LaMDA? Here’s what you need to know

Credit: Luka Mlinar / Android Authority If you’ve read anything about state-of-the-art AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard, you’ve probably come across the term large language models (LLMs). OpenAI’s GPT family of LLMs power ChatGPT, while Google uses LaMDA for its Bard chatbot. Under the hood, these are powerful machine learning models that can

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Netflix’s second ever livestream hit technical issues, leading to a 75+ minute delay and the company taping the Love is Blind reunion episode for later viewing (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Netflix’s second ever livestream hit technical issues, leading to a 75+ minute delay and the company taping the Love is Blind reunion episode for later viewing  —  Netflix had some serious issues with the livestream of its “Love is Blind” reunion episode.  We always knew the livestream would be messy …

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An early look at the Jack Dorsey-backed federated social network Bluesky, which emulates Twitter’s looks and feels like a simpler, positive time on the internet (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: An early look at the Jack Dorsey-backed federated social network Bluesky, which emulates Twitter’s looks and feels like a simpler, positive time on the internet  —  Bluesky is really, really fun. … But after spending a few hours in Bluesky since getting my beta invite this week, it’s so far

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Timeframe: The Little Desk Calendar That Could

Usually, the problem comes before the solution, but for [Stavros], the opposite happened. A 4.7″ E-Ink screen with integrated battery management and ESP32 caught his eye, and he bought it and started thinking about what he wanted to do with it. The Timeframe (hackaday.io link as well) is a sleek desk calendar based around the

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Similarweb: Twitter’s traffic fell 7.7% YoY in March, the third straight month of decline, unique web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY (Shirin Ghaffary/Vox)

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Similarweb: Twitter’s traffic fell 7.7% YoY in March, the third straight month of decline, unique web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY  —  Say goodbye to the old Twitter and hello to the new normal.  —  It’s been a year since Elon Musk initiated his takeover

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[CuriousMarc] Repairs a Floppy

[CuriousMarc] has a pile of 8-inch drives, all marked bad. You can’t just pop over to the computer store and buy a new one these days, so it was off to the repair bench. Although the target drive would do a quick seek,  once it was in use, it just kind of shut down. So

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The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created by Congress in 2000, accuses Shein and Pinduoduo’s Temu of data risks, IP infringement, and more (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created by Congress in 2000, accuses Shein and Pinduoduo’s Temu of data risks, IP infringement, and more  —  Chinese-backed digital platforms Shein and Temu have become the latest targets of the US government, after an official report raised concerns …

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